Heavy Oil Conversion Options
Heavy Oil Conversion Options
Conversion of the AR or VR
Thermal / Catalyst (Uniflex Process)
Catalytic Cracking (RCD-RFCC)
UOP 7804T-1
Highlights of UOP Portfolio for Crude to 2
Distillates Distillate
Hydrotreating
Distillation
Transportation
Crude Oil Vacuum Gas FCC or
Fuels:
Oil Hydrocracking
Gasoline,
Jet Fuel, Diesel
Olefins:
Residue Alkylate,
Propylene
AR / VR Upgrading
Residues:
Heavy Fuel Oil,
Pitch, Coke
UOP Solutions for Residue Upgrading
UOP RCD UOP Reduced UOP AmecFW AmecFW SYDEC UOP Uniflex
Unionfining Crude Cracking Solvent Delayed Coking Process
Process Process Deasphalting Process
UOP 7804T-3
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UOP 7804T-4
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UOP 7804T-5
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UOP 7804T-6
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Asphaltene management
Inhibit formation of coke pre-cursors via
catalysts HVGO recycle or CSO in Blend,
Reactor Temperature and Pressure
Feed, H2
and Catalyst
Commercially proven Reactor design and system
to Manage Coke Pre-Cursors
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Hydrotreating
WHPS Reactor
Uniflex External
Reactor Diesel
Recycle
Gas HLPS WLPS
Heater WLPS CHPS
Uniflex
Fractionation CLPS
Feed Section To DHT
Heater
Fractionation
Vacuum Section
Residue Recycle HVGO from
Feed Uniflex Fractionation
Catalyst Section
Vacuum
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Residue Feed UNIFLEX UNIT Diesel
(Wt-%) 50-55
UOP 7804T-9
UOP Zero Fuel Solution for Vacuum Residue 10
Conversion Complex
Naphtha & Diesel
Lubes Stock
VGO Unicracking Unconverted Lubes Lubes
16,000 bpd Oil 4,000 bpd
Distillation
Vacuum
Atm
Resid
VGO
DAO
Vacuum
Distillate
Resid Uniflex Naphtha & Diesel
Unionfining
9,000 bpd
27,000 bpd
Vacuum Solvent
Resid Deasphalting
SDA Existing Unit
Pitch Pitch to
Cement Plant New Units
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Propylene Yield, Wt%FF
Pure-play
18 C3= Producers
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Base
FCC
f (RxT, PP, C/O, Recycle)
Increasing FCC Processing Severity
UOP 7804T-12
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Conventional
R/FCC
Enhanced
C3= R/FCC
+ZSM-5
0 5 10 15 20 25
Propylene Yield, Wt-%
UOP 7804T-14
Recent Advances in UOP RCD Unionfining 15
UOP 7804T-15
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Reactors
Feed Hot
Feed Filters Separator
H2
Makeup
Fractionator
Hot
H2 Flash Gas
Recovery
Naphtha
To Fuel Gas
Purge Distillate
Cold
Separator
H2S Cold Hydrotreated
Scrubber Flash Residue
UOP 7804T-16
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RCD-RFCC Optimization
5.00
Operating Costs, $/bbl of RCD Feed
4.00
3.00
1.00
RFCC RCD
Catalyst
-1.00
70 75 80 85 90 95 100
Percent Desulfurization
2017 Developments in
Progress
Improvements in Uniflex
Process
New Moly Catalyst for Uniflex
Four new heavy oil pilot plants
in construction
Flexible Solutions
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UOP 7804T-21