Gulf Canada DRB process steps towards commercialization

Conference · Wed Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1987 · American Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry, Preprints; (USA)

OSTI ID:5109641

Souhrada, F; Woods, H J; Simpson, P L; Logan, A ^[1]

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1. Gulf Canada Corp., Sheridan Park, Ontario (Canada)

The Gulf Canada Donor Refined Bitumen Process upgrades heavy oils, bitumens or conventional petroleum residua. A blend of vacuum residuum (500{degree}C+) and a refinery derived hydrogen donor stream, which contains a high proportion of substituted tetralins, is thermally cracked at low pressure in the liquid phase. The middle distillate fraction of the reactor product, containing the depleted donors, is reactivated by conventional catalytic fixed-bed hydrotreating and recycled to the reactor. The naphtha and gas oil fractions are similarly hydrotreated to high quality petroleum products. The hydrogen consumption is low and the process can be self-sufficient in donor. The process results in high liquid yields of good quality products from a wide variety of crude residua and is independent of the contaminating metals of the feed. A test program was financed jointly by Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority, Gulf Canada Corporation, ELF, TOTAL and IFP. In the program, 12,000 BBL of Athabasca bitumen, which was topped and vacuum distilled on the site, was processed. Heavy Arabian vacuum residuum from a nearby refinery was used for start-up and debugging of the equipment. Results of this demonstration run will be presented together with an overall assessment of the Process.

• OSTI ID: 5109641
• Report Number(s): CONF-8704349--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: American Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry, Preprints; (USA) Journal Volume: 32:2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
020400* -- Petroleum-- Processing
04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
040403 -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Refining
ATHABASCA DEPOSIT
BITUMENS
CHEMICAL REACTION YIELD
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CRACKING
DATA
DECOMPOSITION
DEMONSTRATION PLANTS
ENERGY SOURCES
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
INFORMATION
LIQUIDS
LOW PRESSURE
NUMERICAL DATA
OIL SAND DEPOSITS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM
PETROLEUM FRACTIONS
PETROLEUM RESIDUES
PYROLYSIS
TAR
THERMAL CRACKING
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
YIELDS