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Once-through coking with solids recycle

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5623090
This patent describes a process wherein heavy hydrocarbonaceous oil is cracked to vaporous products, including normally liquid hydrocarbons, and to coke, in a fluidized bed of solid particles in a coking zone maintained under fluidized coking conditions wherein a hot vaporous product from the coking zone is passed to a scrubbing zone. The improvement consists of: (a) passing at least a portion of the resulting solids-containing bottoms fraction from the scrubbing zone to a microfiltration system characterized as containing a filtering means comprised of a sintered porous ceramic or metal membrane and having a substantially uniform pore size capable of retaining at least about 95 percent of the solids and capable of maintaining an effective flux thereby producing a solids-laden fraction and a substantially solids-free filtrate; (b) recycling the filtered solids to the coking zone; and (c) hydrotreating, in the presence of a catalyst, at least a portion of the substantially solids-free filtrate at a temperature from about 600/sup 0/F to 800/sup 0/F, a pressure from about 400 to 10,000 psi and a hydrogen treat rate from about 500 to 10,000 standard cubic feet per barrel.
Assignee:
Exxon Research and Engineering Co., Florham, NJ
Patent Number(s):
US 4834864
OSTI ID:
5623090
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English