Use of hydrogen sulfide to reduce the viscosity of bottoms streams produced in hydroconversion processes
US4465584A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 14, 1983 |
| Grant date | Aug 14, 1984 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 14, 2003 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC10G2300/107
- WIPO fieldBasic materials chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Coal, petroleum residuum and similar carbonaceous feed materials are subjected to hydroconversion in the presence of molecular hydrogen to produce a hydroconversion effluent which is then subjected to one or more separation steps to remove lower molecular weight liquids and produce a heavy bottoms stream containing high molecular weight liquids and unconverted carbonaceous material. The viscosity of the bottoms streams produced in the separation step or steps is prevented from increasing by treating the feed to the separation step or steps with hydrogen sulfide gas prior to or during the separation step or steps. The viscosity of the heavy bottoms stream produced in the final separation step is also controlled by treating these bottoms with hydrogen sulfide gas. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the effluent from the hydroconversion reactor is subjected to an atmospheric distillation followed by a vacuum distillation and the feeds to these distillations are contacted with hydrogen sulfide during the distillations.
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