Process for upgrading heavy hydrocarbonaceous oils

Patent · Tue Oct 13 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5959015

Fisher, I P; Souhrada, F; Woods, H J

An integrated upgrading process is disclosed which can be used to lower the specific gravity, viscosity and boiling range of heavy, viscous hydrocarbonaceous oil . The process consists of fractionally distilling the oil, treating its residuum with a hydrogen donor material under hydrocracking conditions, fractionally distilling the effluent from the hydrocracking zone and rehydrogenating that portion boiling from about 180/sup 0/ C to 350/sup 0/ C for recycling to the hydrocracking zone. The liquid portion of the oil not recycled can be recombined into a reconstituted crude suitable for transporting by normal crude pipelines.

• Assignee: Gulf Oil Canada Ltd (Canada)
• Patent Number(s): US 4294686
• OSTI ID: 5959015
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
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BITUMENS
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CRACKING
DECOMPOSITION
DISTILLATION
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FRACTIONATION
FUELS
HYDROCRACKING
MATERIALS
OIL SANDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM
PYROLYSIS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
TAR
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
VISCOSITY