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Laboratory simulator of reactor for a petroleum refinery

US5186904A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 23, 1989
Grant dateFeb 16, 1993
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Expiry dateAug 23, 2009

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  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01J8/22
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A laboratory instrument provides a small model reactor which better simulates a back mixed reactor containing a catalyst. The reactor is especially valuable for simulating commercial scale hydrotreating of petroleum resid, coal, and other non-distillable hydrocarbons to obtain some distillable products. An important feature is a magnetically driven pump completely enclosed within the reactor shell of the simulator. All embodiments provide a high temperature and pressure, low liquid to catalyst volume, model reactor where an entire process is carried out within the simulator shell under substantially the conditions prevailing in the full scale reactor.

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