Retrofitting heavy oil processes

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6533503

Hamilton, G L; Fitzgerald, M; D'Amico, V

Refiners, faced with the need to process the bottom end of the heavy high sulfur crude oil barrel in today's uncertain economic environment, are reluctant to commit large amounts of money to expensive upgrading processes. In order to conserve scarce capital while improving operating margins, additional valuable products can be produced by retrofits such as conversion of an idle crude unit to visbreaking, delayed coking or deasphalting service, or conversion of hydrodesulfurizers to mild hydrocracking.

• Research Organization: Lummus Crest Inc., Bloomfield, NJ
• OSTI ID: 6533503
• Report Number(s): CONF-861146-
• Resource Relation: Conference: AIChE winter annual meeting, Miami, FL, USA, 2 Nov 1986
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
PETROLEUM
DEASPHALTING
DESULFURIZATION
HYDROCRACKING
PETROLEUM REFINERIES
RETROFITTING
COKING
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
EXPENDITURES
FUEL OILS
OIL YIELDS
PAYBACK PERIOD
PRODUCTION
REFINING
SULFUR CONTENT
VISCOSITY
CARBONIZATION
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CRACKING
DECOMPOSITION
ENERGY SOURCES
EXTRACTION
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
LIQUID FUELS
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PROCESSING
PYROLYSIS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
YIELDS
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