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Lan Mai-Cao, HCM University of Technology, Vietnam 76


Chapter Outline

▪ Introduction
▪ Light-Ends Separation
▪ Heavy-Ends Separation
Introduction

 The main separation processes in petroleum refining


take place in CDU (both atmospheric ADU and vacuum
distillation VDU units);
 The overhead product from ADU, known as the light-
ends will be further fractionated to separate butane and
lighter components from naphtha
 The debutanized naphtha is splitted into light and heavy
streams for further processing
 The heavy-ends product from the VDU outlet will be
further separated with dewaxing and deasphalting;

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Petroleum Refining Process

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Separation of Light Ends Stream

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Fractionation for Light-Ends
The hydrocarbon range in overhead distillate from ADU
covers carbon numbers C1 through C10.

Typical light-ends processing units:


 Debutanizer Unit
 Depropanizer Unit
 Naphtha Splitter Unit

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Debutanizer Unit
 The most common routing of the full-range naphtha from
ADU overhead
 The feed stream is heated by heat exchanger with hot
products before entering the feed tray of the debutanizer
column
 This unit normally contains 30-40 trays where butanes
and lighter gas are separated as an overhead distillate
while the naphtha is removed as the bottom product
 The overhead distillate is then heated again by heat
exchanger and fed into a depropanizer unit

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Debutanizer Unit

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Depropanizer Unit
 This column also has 30-40 distillation trays
 The unit separates butanes from propane and lighter gas
by fractionation.
 Butanes leave the column as the bottom product to
become butane LPG product after further sweetening
treatment (sulfur removal)
 The column overhead distillate becomes part of the
refinery’s propane LPG product after further sweetening
treatment

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Naphtha Splitter Unit
 The debutanized naphtha leaving the bottom of the
debutanizer is further fractionated in the naphtha splitter
to give a light naphtha stream (with mostly C5s and nC6s)
and fed to the refinery’s gasoline pool as blending stock
 The heavy naphtha stream contains cycloparaffin
components and the higher paraffin isomers. This stream
is sent to the catalytic reformer after being hydrotreated
for sulfur and nitrogen removal.

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Naphtha Splitter Unit

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Quizzes
 Mechanism of the naphtha splitter unit?
 How to control the composition of the light and heavy
naphtha streams from the splitter?
 How to control the performance of the splitter?
 Can McCabe – Thiele or FUG method be used for the
calculation of minimum number of trays, reflux ratio of the
debutanizer?
 The main differences between debutanizer and naphtha
splitter?
 The role of the isothermal flash tank?

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Solvent Deasphalting (SDA)
Purpose:
 to remove asphalt from the crude distillation
residue

Process
 employs solubility differences to perform
separation
 uses light hydrocarbon (C3,C4,C5) as solvents

Products
 asphaltenes
 deasphalted oil (DAO)

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Role of Solvent Extraction Processes in
Petroleum Refinery
 Production of lubricating oil blending stocks

 Production of pitches and asphalt binder materials


for construction, e.g. road paving

 Pretreatment of residue to produce deasphalted


oil (DAO) with improved properties

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Typical SDA Process

Source: Hydrocarbon Processing’s 2008 Refining Processes Handbook

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Operating Conditions of Solvent
Deasphalting Processes

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