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US3463724A
US3463724A US692888A US3463724DA US3463724A US 3463724 A US3463724 A US 3463724A US 692888 A US692888 A US 692888A US 3463724D A US3463724D A US 3463724DA US 3463724 A US3463724 A US 3463724A
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    • C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10G—CRACKING 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
    • C10G67/00—Treatment of hydrocarbon oils by at least one hydrotreatment process and at least one process for refining in the absence of hydrogen only
    • C10G67/02—Treatment of hydrocarbon oils by at least one hydrotreatment process and at least one process for refining in the absence of hydrogen only plural serial stages only
    • C10G67/08—Treatment of hydrocarbon oils by at least one hydrotreatment process and at least one process for refining in the absence of hydrogen only plural serial stages only including acid treatment as the refining step in the absence of hydrogen
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    • C10G47/00—Cracking of hydrocarbon oils, in the presence of hydrogen or hydrogen- generating compounds, to obtain lower boiling fractions

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  • This invention relates to processes for the production of lubricating oils. More particularly, it is relates to processes for the production of stable lubricating oils by bydrocracking and acid treating.
  • Lubricating oils which can be defined in general as 7 those hydrocarbon materials which boil above 600 F., are presently produced by two principal methods.
  • the first, which produces straight-run lubricating oils may include steps of distillation of a crude oil, solvent refining, solvent dewaxing, acid treating and clay contacting. Acid treating of straight-run lubricating oils is employed to improve the color and resistance to oxidation of the oils.
  • the second method is somewhat similar to the first but substitutes mild hydrorefining or hydrofinishing for one or moreof the steps of solvent refining, acid treating or clay contacting.
  • Hydrorefining or hydrofinishing is a process wherein the contaminants in the crude distillate are converted, by contacting with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenating catalyst, to easily removable or harmless species. Only minimal cracking occurs during hydrorefining.
  • lubricating oils may also be produced by hydrocracking.
  • a heavy petroleum oil is contacted with hydrogen at elevated temperature and pressure in the presence of a hydrocracking catalyst; and the hydrocracked product (which is often termed the hydrocrackate) is separated, usually by distillation, into materials boiling in different temperature ranges. One or more of these materials will boil within the lubricating oil boiling range.
  • this invention comprises contacting a liquid hydrocarbon feedstock containing a substantial portion of components boiling above 750 F. with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrocrackilng catalyst at a temperature in the range 720 to 850 F. and an elevated pressure in order to convert at least 15 weight percent of said feedstock components boiling above 750 F. to materials boiling below 750 F., recovering from the hydrocrackate a lubricating oil fraction boiling above 600 F., treating the said lubricating oil fraction with a treating agent comprising a major portion of concentrated HF, and recovering a lubricating oil with an improved ultraviolet light stability.
  • FIGURE 1 illustrates schematically flow paths which appear in one specific embodiment of the process of this invention.
  • FIGURE 2 illustrates schematically a preferred embodiment of the hydrotreating part of the process.
  • this invention comprises contacting a liquid hydrocarbon feedstock containing a substantial portion of components boiling above 750 F. with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrocracking catalyst at a temperature in the range 720 to 850 F. and an elevated pressure in order to convert at least 15 weight percent of said feedstock components boiling above 750 F. to materials boiling below 750 F., recovering from the hydrocrackate a lubricating oil fraction boiling above 600 F., treating the said lubricating oil fraction with a treating agent comprising a major portion of concentrated HF, and recovering a lubricating oil with an improved ultraviolet light stability.
  • the temperature at which the oil is hydrocracked is maintained in the range of 750-830 F.
  • the hydrocracking step in this process is operated at a pressure in the range of from about 500 to about 5,000 p.s.i.g., a liquid hourly space velocity in the range of from about 0.2 to about 10.0 volumes of liquid hydrocarbon feed per volume of catalyst per hour (v./v./hr.), and a hydrogen throughput rate in the range of from about 1,000 to about 20,000 s.c.f./bbl. More preferred conditions are 1,500-3,000 p.s.i.g., 0.5-2.0 LHSV and 5,000- 10,000 s.c.f./bbl. of hydrogen.
  • the contacting of the oil and the treating agent comprising a major portion of concentrated HF occurs in what, for convenience, will herein be termed the HF treating step.
  • the HF treating step as defined in this process, may be a single contacting step; but, more preferably, it comprises a plurality of sequential contacting steps; and, still more preferably, comprises two or three contacting steps in series.
  • the treating agent comprising a major portion of concentrated HF is preferably entirely concentrated HF, as the latter term is defined below, for it is use of the HF which is one of the key elements of the present invention. However, in some cases other components may be present in minor amounts with the HF in the treating agent which contacts the oil without reducing the effectiveness of the HF.
  • a nonlimiting example is boron trifiuoride.
  • a typical HFBF combination is described in US. Patent 2,343,841.
  • the methods of contacting the oil with the treating agent during the HF treating step are well known in the art. Any conventional contacting method is suitable for use in this process if it provides for substantially complete contacting of the oil and the HF portion of the treating agent.
  • Each contacting step should be operated at a temperature in the range of from about F. to about 250 F. and a pressure sufiiciently high to maintain the oil, HF, and other components in the liquid phase.
  • a hydrocarbon diluent it is desirable to add a hydrocarbon diluent to thin the oil and improve the degree of HF-oil contacting.
  • Suitable diluents are the C C paraffins, especially pentane.
  • the HP used in the process is concentrated HF, which is defined in this process to mean anhydrous HF or an aqueous solution containing at least 50 weight percent HF.
  • anhydrous HF or an aqueous solution containing at least 90 weight percent HF are preferred. Less preferred are aqueous solutions containing from up to 90 weight percent HF.
  • Any hydrocarbon oil having a substantial portion boiling above 750 F. may be converted in this process to lubricating oils.
  • Preferred feeds are lubricating oil stocks boiling above 900 F although crude oils, reduced crudes, residua, and deasphalted oils, among others, may also be used.
  • HF treating can be used to moderately improve the properties of oils produced by methods other than hydrocracking
  • HF treating of such other oils is not significantly better than other known treating agents which are used to improve oil stability; and, in fact, in many cases is decidedly inferior.
  • HF is markedly and unexpectedly superior to these other-known treating agents; for, as illustrated in Table I, it is the only one which produces a high yield (greater than 95 weight percent) of a highly stable oil (one which will withstand more than ten hours exposure under the test described below without forming a precipitate).
  • Table I the only one which produces a high yield (greater than 95 weight percent) of a highly stable oil (one which will withstand more than ten hours exposure under the test described below without forming a precipitate).
  • the data in the following table were derived by treating a hydrocracked light neutral oil produced from California deasphalted oil. The ultraviolet light stability of the untreated oil was 2 hours to precipitate.
  • a critical element in the invention is the conversion of at least 15 weight percent of the materials boiling above 750 F. to materials boiling below 750 F. by hydrocracking at elevated temperatures in the range of 720- 850 F., and preferably 750830 F.
  • the reduced effectiveness of HF treating of oils hydrocracked at temperatures below 720 F. is believed to be due to the nature of the instability-causing components, which are believed to be polynuclear aromatic compounds.
  • the temperature of conversion is too high, catalytic hydrocracking is minimized and the predominant reaction is thermal cracking.
  • the actual operating temperature will depend on the type of feed processed and its viscosity index, the viscosity index of the lubricating oil product desired, and the degree of conversion required to produce the desired viscosity index increase. It is usually found that feedstocks which contain higher proportions of aromatics require higher degrees of conversion, which may be accomplished by hydrocracking at a high temperature, low space velocity or any combination of relatively more severe conditions within the acceptable ranges described above.
  • the following table indicates several typical processing conditions and conversions which are to be expected when processing different feedstocks.
  • first hydrocracker 20 Hydrogen enters first hydrocracker 20 through line 21. Conversion in hydrocracker 20 is generally 40-70 percent.
  • the partially hydrocracked oil is TABLE II Hydrocracking conditions to produce lube oil Hydrocarbon feedstock Boiling Nitrogen Sulfur con- Conv. Gravity range content tent (wt. Temp. (wt. Source Characteristic (API) F.) (ppm) percent) F.) percent) LHSV So. American residuum Paraffinic 20. 4 910 1, 4 0 o. 5 780 50 o. 7 California vacuum gas oil Aromatic 16.0 640-1, 000 4, 300 0. 9 800 80 1. 0 California cracked gas oil.
  • a hydrocarbon feedstock is passed into hydrocracking zone 1 through line 2.
  • the feedstock is hydrocracked to the desired degree of conversion-i.e., at least weight percent-to 750 F. material by contacting with a catalyst at conditions described hereinafter in the presence of hydrogen added to the reaction zone through line 3.
  • the hydrocracked oil is then passed through line 4 into first separation zone 5, in which all the materials boiling below 600 F. are separated and removed through at least one line, such as lines 6, 7, and 8.
  • the bottoms fraction now containing only materials boiling above 600 F., is passed through line 9 into second separation zone 10 wherein a portion of the 600 F.+ material may be removed through line 11.
  • Zone 10 may comprise any conventional separation process or processes whereby a portion of the 600 F.+ material may be removed. Typical of such process is, among others, vacuum distillation. In a preferred embodiment of this process, zone 10 comprises a dewaxing zone, and more preferably, comprises a conventional solvent dewaxing zone.
  • the remaining portion of the 600 F.+ material is passed through line 12 into HF treating zone 13, where it is mixed with the HF-containing treating agent supplied through line 14.
  • the HF layer containing the extracted instability-causing compounds is removed through line 15.
  • the stabilized oil layer is passed through line 16 into third separation zone 17 wherein any residual HF in the oil is separated by conventional means, such as flashing, and removed through line 18.
  • the final product lubricating oil is withdrawn through line 19.
  • second separation zone 10 may be eliminated, and the bottoms oil of first separation zone 5 may be passed directly into HF treating zone 13.
  • FIGURE 2 shows an embodiment of hydrocracking zone 1 preferred for use when a high degree of conversion (e.g., more than 60 percent) is desired.
  • a high degree of conversion e.g., more than 60 percent
  • reaction zone 1 contains only one hydrocracking reactor, that reactor must necessarily be operated at severe conditions of temperature, pressure and space velocity in order to accomplish the desired high conversion. Under such conditions, the reactor has little lfiexibility to process different feedstocks, for the temperature must be maintained at a level near the equipment limit. Consequently, the range over which the temperature can be varied to accommodate different feedstocks is severely limited.
  • the feedstock is again removed from hydrocracker 20 through line 22 and passed into intermediate separation zone 23.
  • Gaseous products including unconverted hydrogen, ammonia H 8 and volatile hydrocarbons, are removed through lines 24 and 25 while liquid products boiling below 600F. are removed through at least one line, such as lines 26 and 27.
  • the materials boiling above 600 F. pass through line 28 into second hydrocracker 29.
  • Hydrogen for second hydrocracker 29 may be supplied through line 30. Conversion in second hydrocracker 29 is. regulated in a conventional manner to bring the total conversion of the feedstock to the desired high degree.
  • the hydrocracked oil passes out of second hydrocracker 29 through line 4 and is thereafter processed as described in the discussion of FIGURE 1. This mode of operation of the process of this invention results in longer catalyst life in second hydrocracker 29.
  • reaction zone 1 A more preferred method of operation of reaction zone 1 is also shown in FIGURE 2.
  • Hydrogen which is separated from the hydrocracked oil in intermediate separation zone 23 and removed through line 24 may, rather than being taken out of the process through line 25, be passed with all the volatile materials through line 31 into conventional gas separator 32, wherein the hydrogen is separated from the other volatile materials and passed through line 33 into second hydrocracker 29.
  • the other volatile materials may be removed from separator 32 through lines 34 and 35 to be processed and collected by conventional methods.
  • HF treating has been found to be superior to other types of acid or solvent treating for the improvement of properties of lubricating oils which have been produced by hydrocracking over a wide range of temperatures.
  • the data in Table III were derived from experiments conducted with a California deasphalted oil.
  • TA B LE III Ultraviolet Light Stability oi lIF-Treated Oil (hrs to Light Heavy Bright neutral neutral stock oil oil
  • the process of the present invention is operated within the catalytic hydrocracking temperature range of 720- 850 F. If the temperature is below 720 F., the elfect of HF treating is lessened. If the temperature is above 850 F., thermal cracking becomes a principal cracking reaction and hydrocracking is minimized. It should be noted, however, that HF treating of oils produced at temperatures outside the optimum range of 720-850 F.
  • Table IV illustrates the comparison of oneand two-stage hydrocracking followed by HP treating.
  • the feed is a California deasphalted oil.
  • the catalyst used in the hydrocracking reactors may be of the sulfactive hydrogenation type commonly used for desulfurization and denitrification.
  • Suitable catalysts include combinations of the Group VI and Group VIII metals, oxides or sulfides associated with porous refractory oxide carriers.
  • the most suitable metals are nickel or cobalt in combination with molybdenum or tungsten as sulfides.
  • the refractory oxide may be alumina; but usually, to provide more hydrocracking activity, there is employed a combination of alumina with silica, magnesia, titania and other like materials or combinations of such other oxides--for example, silica-magnesia.
  • Such catalysts can be prepared in a number of ways, including preparing the porous carrier first and then impregnating it with solutions of the metal compounds which are later converted to metal oxides by calcining.
  • Particularly good catalysts for use in the hydrocracking step can be prepared by coprecipitation or cogelation techniques wherein all of the components are initially supplied as dissolved compounds in aqueous solutions and coprecipitated together.
  • Zeolitic-supportcd hydrocracking catalysts may also be used.
  • ultraviolet light instability is evidenced by the formation of a visible precipitate in the oil.
  • the degree of stability possessed is determined by the relative amount of time required for the precipitate to form.
  • One obvious way to measure this degree of stability is to expose the oil to the ultraviolet light in sunlight and observe the number of days required for the precipitate to form. This, however, is an unsatisfactory procedure for two related reasons: First, natural ultraviolet light is not concentrated, so the oils usually require several weeks or months of exposure before any precipitate forms. Secondly, over this period of time, the daily exposure is not uniform, for the amount of sunlight varies with the time of year and the weather on any particular day. Consequently, in order to measure ultraviolet stability rapidly and reliably, the following test has been developed. A m1.
  • a process for producing lubricating oil from a liquid hydrocarbon feedstock containing a substantial portion of components boiling above 750 F. which comprises:
  • the catalyst used in said reaction zone comprises a Group VI component and a Group VIII component associated with an inorganic oxide support.
  • said treating agent consists essentially of an aqueous solution containing at least weight percent HP.
  • a process for producing lubricating oil from a liquid hydrocarbon feedstock containing a substantial portion of components boiling above 750 R which comprises:
  • reaction zone containing in at least one catalytic hydrocracking zone a catalyst comprising a Group VI component and a Group VIII component associated with an inorganic oxide support, said reaction zone operated at a temperature in the range of 750 to 830 F., a pressure in the range of 500 to 5,000 p.s.i.g. and an LHSV in the range of 0.2 to 10, to convert in said reaction zone at least 15 percent of said feedstock components boiling above 750 F. to materials boiling below 750 F.;
  • each of said sequential contacting steps is operated at a temperature in the range of from about to about 250 F.

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