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Title: Retrofitting heavy oil processes

Abstract

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.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lummus Crest Inc., Bloomfield, NJ
OSTI Identifier:
6533503
Report Number(s):
CONF-861146-
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: AIChE winter annual meeting, Miami, FL, USA, 2 Nov 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
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; 020400* - Petroleum- Processing

Citation Formats

Hamilton, G L, Fitzgerald, M, and D'Amico, V. Retrofitting heavy oil processes. United States: N. p., 1986. Web.
Hamilton, G L, Fitzgerald, M, & D'Amico, V. Retrofitting heavy oil processes. United States.
Hamilton, G L, Fitzgerald, M, and D'Amico, V. 1986. "Retrofitting heavy oil processes". United States.
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abstractNote = {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.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986},
month = {Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986}
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