CA2170219A1 - Process for the demetallation of residual oils - Google Patents

Process for the demetallation of residual oils

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CA2170219A1
CA2170219A1 CA002170219A CA2170219A CA2170219A1 CA 2170219 A1 CA2170219 A1 CA 2170219A1 CA 002170219 A CA002170219 A CA 002170219A CA 2170219 A CA2170219 A CA 2170219A CA 2170219 A1 CA2170219 A1 CA 2170219A1
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Jesper Bartholdy
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Topsoe AS
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C10PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10GCRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES
    • C10G45/00Refining of hydrocarbon oils using hydrogen or hydrogen-generating compounds
    • C10G45/02Refining of hydrocarbon oils using hydrogen or hydrogen-generating compounds to eliminate hetero atoms without changing the skeleton of the hydrocarbon involved and without cracking into lower boiling hydrocarbons; Hydrofinishing
    • C10G45/04Refining of hydrocarbon oils using hydrogen or hydrogen-generating compounds to eliminate hetero atoms without changing the skeleton of the hydrocarbon involved and without cracking into lower boiling hydrocarbons; Hydrofinishing characterised by the catalyst used
    • C10G45/12Refining of hydrocarbon oils using hydrogen or hydrogen-generating compounds to eliminate hetero atoms without changing the skeleton of the hydrocarbon involved and without cracking into lower boiling hydrocarbons; Hydrofinishing characterised by the catalyst used containing crystalline alumino-silicates, e.g. molecular sieves

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Abstract

Process for the demetallation of petroleum crude oil by contacting the oil together with hydrogen with a catalyst having at least one metal or compound thereof of Group VIII and/or Group VI of the Periodic Table as its active material supported on a carrier comprising a zeolite with a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio of at least 5 and a unit cell size of between 24.30 and 24.60.

Description

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The present invention relates to demetallation of petroleum crude oil, and, more particular, to the removal of metals in the oil by contact with a catalyst having Ni, Mo and/or CoMo supported on a zeolitic carrier.
Petroleum crudes are known to contain metals such as Ni, V, Fe, Co, etc. in ppm levels. To a large extent, these components are associated with the heaviest parts of the resid, i.e. the part of the resid with the highest boiling points. This means that these components are con-centrated in the bottom fractions often designated atm. or vacuum residuum.
The presence of metallic compounds is generally undesirable as they are poisonous to many subsequent up-grading steps usually used to convert or treat the atm. or vacuum residuum in refineries, e.g. fuel oil desulphurisation, resid hydrocracking or resid FCC.
Heavy oil fractions containing metal compounds are predominantly those with an atmospheric boiling point above 350C. The heavy oil fractions will typically contain 50-500 ppm cf mainly Ni and V. Those trace metals are normally removed in a fixed bed catalytic process, where the residual oil comes into contact with a demetallation catalyst at high temperature, typically at 300-450C at a high H2 pressure, e.g. 20-200 bars and at a space veloc-ity in the range of 0.25-4 h-1. When the oil comes into contact with the demetallation catalyst, the metals pres-ented in the feedstock will react and accumulate on the catalyst surface.
In order to be able efficiently to treat residual oils, it is important that metallic compounds be removed from the oil. Conventional demetallation catalysts consist of Ni and Mo or CoMo supported on alumina. It has now been found that metals are removed from petroleum crude oil with a high efficiency in a demetallation process, when employ-ing a demetallat on catalyst supported on a carrier com-prising zeolitic material.

~17~9 -Accordingly, this invention provides a process for the demetallation of petroleum crude oil by contacting the oil together with hydrogen with a catalyst having at least one metal or compound thereof of Group VIII and/or Group VI
of the Periodic Table as active material supported on a carrier, wherein the carrier comprises a zeolite with a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio of at least 5 and a unit cell size of between 24.30 and 24.60. Preferred metals for use in the process are Ni, Mo, CoMo or mixtures thereof.
It is furthermore preferred to composite the car-rier material of the catalyst of 30-70% by weight with the above zeolitic material and 30-70% by weight with alumina.
The catalyst may be prepared by any method being conventional in the art and including impregnation of the calcined carrier with an aqueous solution of salts of the active metal or metals, drying the impregnated carrier and finally calcinating the carrier to obtain the active cata-lyst.
In operating the inventive process, the catalyst is arranged as fixed bed in a demetallation reactor and crude oil feedstock passed together with hydrogen in a ratio of typically 200-2000 Nl/l through the catalyst bed. During demetallation, the bed temperature is maintained at elev-ated temperature and pressure of usually 350-450C and 120-170 atm.
By passage through the catalyst bed, the metal content in the feedstock is reduced to few ppm.

~ya~rle A catalyst support was prepared by mixing 70 g of dried C~3 500 ~TM Zeolite (available from P.Q. Zeolites), having a unit cell size of 24.53 and a SiO2/Al2O3 = 5.4 with a gel obtained by adding 29 g of cATAPALTM (Vista Cor-poration) to 1.8 g of 65% HN03 and 78 g of water. The ~17~

components were thoroughly mixed in a Z-KNEADERT~I with 11 g CATAPALTM un~il a pasta was formed. The pasta was then extruded ;~t 0 1/32" extrudates. After extrusion, the wet extrudate~ were dried at room temperature for 16 hours. The dried extrudates were then calcined at 550C for 2 hours in a laboratory furnace.
The calcined carrier was impregnated by pore volume filling with an impregnation solution conta~ n ing 18.3 g of Co(NO3)2 6H2O, 15 g of ammonium dimolybdate and distilled water up to 82 ml. After impregnation, the catalyst was dried at room temperature for 16 hrs. The dried and impreg-nated catalyst was finally calcined at 500C for 2 hours.
The catalyst thus prepared is designated A.

Example 2 Using a similar procedure to that of Example 1, a catalyst carrier was prepared by mixing 30 g of dried CVB 500 HY
Zeolite with 62 g ofvERsALTM 300 alumina and 126 g of alumina gel. The catalyst carrier was dried, calcined, impregnated and decomposed at the same conditions as described under Example 1. The catalyst thus prepared is designated B.

Example 3 Using the procedure of Example 2, a catalyst was prepared where thec~ 500 ~TM zeolitic component was exchanged for a c~ 600 ~ (available from P.Q. Zeolites) with a unit cell size of 24.34 A and a SiO2/Al2O3 = 5.4. The catalyst thus prepared is designated C.
le 4 As comparison catalyst in the evaluation of the catalysts prepared in Examples 1-3, commercial Al2O3 based catalysts were used. These catalysts are commercially available from Haldor Tops0e A/S under the trade name TK-711T~/TR-751,I,M and TK-771TM-~7~2~

The ability of removing metals from a residual oil was tested in a fixed bed pilot plant. For the test, a residual oil of Middle East origin was used. The properties of the feedstock used in the test are listed in Table 1.

Table 1 Feed~tock PropertieR

SG 0.9513 Sulphur, wt~ 2.964 Nitrogen, ppm 1850 Ni + V, ppm 38 CCR, wt~ 8.15 Asph., wt~ 2.0 C, wt~ 11.60 H, wt~ 84.8 GC Dist.
IBP-190C,wt~ 2.1 IBP-343C,wt~ 7.3 IBP-440C,wt~ 27.6 IBP-565C,wt~ 60.6 The conditions used in the test are listed in Table 2. As apparent from Table 2, the tests were conducted at different temperatures ranging from 385C to 405C. Each temperature level was maintained for one week in order to reach a stable activity level for the catalyst.

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Table 2 Process Conditions LHSV 0.26h-H~/oil 500 Pressure 150 atm.
Temp. 385/400/405/385C

The catalysts of Examples 1-3 were tested in a fixed bed with a small protective layer of commercial demetallation catalysts, in order to control the amounts of metals that will deposit on the catalyst of the invention.
The catalyst bed lay-out used in the test is summarized in Table 3.

Table 3 Catalyst Bed Lay-Out Vol.- Loading 1 Loading 2 Loading 3 Loading 4 %

10TK-711 1/32"C
25TK-751 1/32"C
60Catalyst A Catalyst B Catalyst C Comparative Cat. TK-771 ) Vol% of total loading.

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F~g. 1-3 show the catalyst activity of catalyst loadings 1-3 in comparison with the conventional Al2O3 based system.
Fig. 1-3 are Arrhenius plots giving the first order rate cons~ants for demetallation. The first order rate constant is calculated according to equation 1 as follows:

k1 = LHSV ln MMep ( 1 ) where:
k1: is the first order rate constant for demetallation, h~l Feed flow rate(ml/h) LHSV: lS the space veloclty Catalyst vol. (ml) MeF,MeP: feed and product metal content in ppm In Fig. 1-3, the activity obtained on a conven-tional catalyst system is given as solid lines. Each of the catalysts of this invention shows an improved activity for demetallation as apparent from the data in Fig. 1-3. The level of improvement in relation to known catalysts are in the order of 20-40~, which for the test conditions and feeds tested results in a substantially completely demetal-lized hydrocarbon product.

Claims (3)

1. Process for the demetallation of petroleum crude oil by contacting the oil together with hydrogen with a catalyst having at least one metal or compound thereof of at least one of Group VIII and Group VI the Periodic Table as active material supported on a carrier, wherein the carrier com-prises a zeolite with a SiO2/Al2O3 ratio of at least 5 and a unit cell size of between 24.30 and 24.60.
2. The process of claim 1, wherein the carrier con-sists of 30-70% by weight of the zeolite and 30-70% by weight of alumina.
3. The process of claim 1, wherein the Group VIII
metal comprises Ni and the Group VI metal comprises at least one of Mo and Co.
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