Process for upgrading a hydrocarbon fraction. [cracking, hydrogenating, desulfurizing, demetalating, and denitrifying]

Patent · Fri May 31 00:00:00 EDT 1974

OSTI ID:7348442

McCollum, J D; Quick, L M

A process is claimed for cracking, hydrogenating, desulfurizing, demetalating, and denitrifying a hydrocarbon fraction containing paraffins, olefins, olefin-equivalents, or acetylenes, as such or as substituents on ring compounds, and sulfurous, metallic and nitrogenous components: comprising cracking hydrogenating, desulfurizing, demetalating, and denitrifying said hydrocarbon fraction by contacting said hydrocarbon fraction with a water-containing fluid at a temperature in the range of from about 600/sup 0/ to about 900/sup 0/F, under super-atmospheric pressure, in the absence of externally supplied hydrogen, and in the presence of an externally supplied catalyst system containing a sulfur- and nitrogen-resistant catalyst selected from the group consisting of at least one soluble or insoluble transition metal compound and transition metal deposited on a support, said transition metal in said catalyst being selected from the group consisting of ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, osmium, and combinations thereof, wherein sufficient water is present in the water-containing fluid and said pressure is sufficiently high so that the water in the water-containing fluid has a density of at least 0.10 gram per milliliter and serves as an effective solvent for the hydrocarbon fraction, and wherein hydrogen is generated in situ; and lowering said temperature or pressure or both to thereby make the water in the water-containing fluid a less effective solvent for the hydrocarbon fraction and to thereby form separate phases, wherein essentially all the sulfur separated from the hydrocarbon fraction is in the form of elemental sulfur.

• Assignee: Standard Oil Co.
• Patent Number(s): US 3960706
• OSTI ID: 7348442
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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PETROLEUM DISTILLATES
REFINING
SULFUR
RECOVERY
CATALYTIC EFFECTS
CRACKING
DEMETALLIZATION
DENITRIFICATION
DESULFURIZATION
HIGH TEMPERATURE
HYDROGENATION
IRIDIUM
OSMIUM
RHODIUM
RUTHENIUM
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
DECOMPOSITION
DISTILLATES
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
METALS
NONMETALS
PETROLEUM
PETROLEUM FRACTIONS
PLATINUM METALS
PROCESSING
PYROLYSIS
REFRACTORY METALS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
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