WO1982004061A1 - Extraction par entrainement d'hydrocarbures a partir d'un catalyseur avec gaz de combustion - Google Patents

Extraction par entrainement d'hydrocarbures a partir d'un catalyseur avec gaz de combustion Download PDF

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WO1982004061A1
WO1982004061A1 PCT/US1981/000646 US8100646W WO8204061A1 WO 1982004061 A1 WO1982004061 A1 WO 1982004061A1 US 8100646 W US8100646 W US 8100646W WO 8204061 A1 WO8204061 A1 WO 8204061A1
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • 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
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    • C10G11/18—Catalytic cracking, in the absence of hydrogen, of hydrocarbon oils with preheated moving solid catalysts according to the "fluidised-bed" technique

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  • This invention relates to processes for converting heavy hydrocarbon oils into lighter fractions, and especially to processes for converting heavy hydrocarbons containing high concentrations of coke precursors and heavy metals into gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
  • gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbon fuels boil in the range of about 100 to about 650°F.
  • the crude oil from which these fuels are made contains a diverse mixture of hydrocarbons and othr.r compounds which vary widely in molecular weight and therefore boil over a wide range.
  • crude oils are known in which 30 to 60% or more of the total volume of oil is composed of compounds boiling at temperatures above 650 °F.
  • crudes in which about 10% to about 30% or more of the total volume consists of compounds so heavy in molecular weight that they boil above 1025°F or at least will not boil below 1025°F at atmospheric pressure.
  • Crude oil in the natural state contains a variety of materials which tend to have quite troublesome effects on FCC processes, and only a portion of these troublesome materials can be economically removed from the crude oil.
  • these troublesome materials are coke precursors (such as asphaltenes, polynuclear aromatics, etc.), heavy metals (such as nickel, vanadium, iron, copper, etc.), lighter metals (such as sodium, potassium, etc.), sulfur, nitrogen and others. Certain of these, such as the lighter metals, can be economically removed by desalting operations, which are part of the normal procedure for pretreating crude oil for fluid catalytic cracking.
  • the heavy metals can accumulate on the catalyst to the point that they unfavorably alter the composition of the catalyst and/or the nature of its effectupon the feedstock.
  • vanadium tends to fom fluxes with certain components of commonly used FCC catalysts, lowering the melt ing point of portions of the catalyst particles sufficiently so that they begin to sinter and become ineffective cracking catalysts.
  • An oil such as a crude or crude fraction or other oil that is particularly abundant in nickel and/or other metals exhibiting similar behavior, while containing relatively large quantities of coke precursors, is referred to herein as a carbo-metallic oil, and represents a particular challenge to the petroleum refiner.
  • the coke-forming tendency or. coke precursor content of an oil can be ascertained by determining the weight percent of carbon remaining after a sample of that oil has been pyrolyzed.
  • the industry accepts this value as a measure of the extent to which a given oil tends to form non-catalytic coke when employed as feedstock in a catalytic cracker.
  • Two established tests are recognized, the Conradson Carbon and Ramsbottom Carbon tests, the former being described in ASTM D1S9-76 and the latter being described in ASTM Test No. D524-76.
  • Conradson carbon values on the order of about 0.05 to about 1.0 are regarded as indicative of acceptable feed.
  • the present invention is concerned with the use of hydrocarbon feedstocks which have higher Conradson carbon values and thus exhibit substantially greater potential for coke formation than the usual feeds.
  • the various heavy metals are not of equal catalyst poisoning activity, it is convenient to express the poisoning activity of an oil containing a given poisoning metal or metals in terms of the amount of a single metal which is estimated to have equivalent poisoning activity.
  • the heavy metals content of an oil can be expressed by the following formula (patterned after that of W. L. Nelson in Oil and Gas Journal, page 143, October 23, 1961) in which the content of each metal present is expressed in parts per million of such metal, as metal, on a weight basis, based on the weight of feed:
  • the heavy metal content of feedstock for FCC processing is controlled at a relatively low level, e.g., about 0.25 ppm Nickel Equivalents or less.
  • the present invention is concerned with the processing of feedstocks containing metals substantially in excess of this value and which therefore have a significantly greater potential for accumulating on and poisoning catalyst.
  • the above formula can also be employed as a measure of the accumulation of heavy metals on cracking catalyst, except that the quantity of metal employed in the formula is based on the weight of catalyst (moisture free basis) instead of the weight of feed.
  • the metal content of the catalyst is maintained at a level which may for example be in the range of about 200 to about 600 ppm Nickel Equivalents.
  • the process of the present invention is concerned with the use of catalyst having a substantially larger metals content, and which therefore has a much greater than normal tendency to promote cehydrogenation, aromatic condensation, gas production or coke formation. There fore, such higher metals accumulation is normally regarded as quite undesirable in FCC processing.
  • VGO vacuum gas oil
  • the heavier fractions are normally employed for a variety of other purposes, such as for instance production of asphalt, residual fuel oil, #6 fuel oil, or marine Bunker C fuel oil, which represents a great waste of the potential value of this portion of the crude oil, especially in light of the great effort and expense which the art has been willing to expend in the attempt to produce generally similar materials from coal and shale oils.
  • the present invention is aimed at the simultaneous cracking of these heavier fractions containing substantial quantities of both coke precursors and heavy metals, and possibly other troublesome components, in conjunction with the lighter oils, thereby increasing the overall yield of gasoline and other hydrocarbon liquid fuels from a given quantity of crude.
  • the present invention by no means constitutes the first attempt to develop such a process, but the long standing recognition of the desirability of cracking carbo-metallic feedstocks, along with the slow progress of the industry toward doing so, show the continuing need for such a process. It is believed that the present process is uniquely advantageous for dealing with the problem of treating such carbo-metallic oils in an economically and technically sound manner.
  • the cracking reaction for the method disclosed in application Serial No. 94,216 is sufficiently severe to convert 50% or more of the feedstock to gasoline per pass and produce coke in the amount of 6 to 14% by weight based on weight of fresh feed.
  • the ratio of weight of catalyst to weight of feedstock is from about 3 to about 18, coke is laid down on the catalyst in amounts in the range of about 0.3 to about 3 percent by weight based on the weight of the catalyst, and heavy metals accumulate on the catalyst to a concentration of from about 3000 to about 30,000 ppm nickel equivalents.
  • the term "heavy metals” refers to nickel, vanadium, copper and iron, although trace amounts of other heavy metal elements may sometimes be present.
  • the total amount of heavy metals in the feed is comprised principally of nickel and vanadium (90 or more weight percent based on total heavy metals).
  • the undesirable dehydrogenation and methyl clipping reactions catalyzed by these metals form hydrogen and methane gases and increase the amount of coke deposited on the catalyst.
  • the formation of increasing amounts of hydrogen and methane as heavy metals build up on the catalyst increases the amount of gaseous material that must be handled by refinery gas treating and compression equipment and decreases catalyst selectivity for gasoline production, i.e., the volume percent yield of gasoline boiling range products is reduced.
  • Using a carbo-metallic feed with its unusually high content of coke precursors as compared to FCC feeds, can increase the amount of coke burned in the regenerator and the temperature in the regenerator to the point that regeneration temperatures become excessive if there is thorough burning of coke. Excessive temperatures can permanently deactivate the catalyst and/or damage the regenerating equipment.
  • the heat of combustion of coke depends upon the concentration of hydrogen in the coke and the ratio of CO 2 to CO in the products of combustion. Carbon produces 13,910 BTU per pound when burned to CO 2 and only 3,962 BTU per pound when burned to CO. Hydrogen produces 61,485 BTU per pound when burned to H 2 O.
  • the heats of combustion of coke for three representative levels of hydrogen and four different ratios of CO 2 /CO are given in the following table:
  • the effect of increasing Conradson carbon is to increase that portion of the feedstock converted to carbon deposited on the catalyst.
  • the amount of coke deposited on the catalyst averages about 4-5 wt % of feed.
  • This coke production has been attributed to four different coking reactions, namely, contaminant coke (from metal deposits), catalytic coke (acid site cracking), entrained hydrocarbons (pore structure adsorption - poor stripping) and Conradson carbon.
  • contaminant coke from metal deposits
  • catalytic coke acid site cracking
  • entrained hydrocarbons pore structure adsorption - poor stripping
  • Conradson carbon pore structure adsorption - poor stripping
  • the coke production based on feed is the sum of the four kinds mentioned above including exceedingly high Conradson carbon values.
  • This carbonaceous material is principally a carbonaceous, hydrogen-containing product as previously described plus high boiling adsorbed hydrocarbons with boiling points as high as 1500-1700°F that have a high hydrogen content, high boiling nitrogen containing hydrocarbons and porphyrins-asphaltenes.
  • Coke production when processing reduced crude is normally and most generally about 4-5% plus the Conradson carbon value of the feedstock.
  • Conradson carbon value of the feedstock increases, coke production increases and this increased load will raise regeneration temperatures.
  • a limit exists on the Conradson carbon value of the feed which can be tolerated at approximately about 8 even at these higher temperatures. Based on experience, this equates to about 12-13 wt% coke on catalyst based on feed.
  • U.S. Patent Applications Serial Nos. 94,091 and 94,227, filed November 14, 1979 disclose processes for the conversion of carbo-metallic oils to liquid fuel in which various regeneration techniques are employed that assist in controlling the heat load in the regeneration step.
  • One method of controlling the heat load in the regenerator is disclosed in U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 251,032 for "Addition of Water to Regeneration Air", filed April 3, 1981 by George D. Myers et al, and the disclosure of that application is hereby incorporated by reference.
  • the ratio of CO 2 to CO may be decreased to no more than about 4 and preferably to less than about 3 in order to reduce the amount of energy released within the regenerator, while optionally providing a flue gas high enough in CO content to be a useful fuel.
  • the CO/CO 2 ratio may be increased by providing chlorine in an oxidizing atmosphere within the regenerator, the concentration of chlorine preferably being in the range of about 100 to about 400 ppm. This method of increasing the CO/CO 2 ratio is disclosed in copending applications Ser. No. 246,751 filed March 23, 1981 for "Addition of MgCl 2 to Catalyst" and Ser. No. 246,732 filed March 23, 1981 for "Addition of Chlorine to Regenerator", both in the name of George D. Myers.
  • the carbo-metallic oils can vary widely in their Conradson carbon content.
  • Such varying content of carbon residue in the feedstock, along with variations in riser operating conditions such as catalyst to oil ratio and others, can result in wide variations of the percent of coke found on the spent catalyst. Accordingly, where the feed and riser operating conditions are such as to produce rather large coke yields, necessitating the burning of very substantial amounts of coke from the catalyst in regeneration, such as at least about 0.5 weight percent based on the catalyst, or more, additional measures for controlling the heat load in the regenerator may prove useful.
  • a carbo-metallic oil conversion process wherein spent, coke-laden catalyst is stripped prior to regeneration by establishing a fluidized bed or beds of spent catalyst and passing hot combustion gases from the regenerator through said bed or beds to fluidize the catalyst particles and strip adsorbed hydrocarbons from the spent catalyst.
  • This invention provides an improved stripping process to remove adsorbed and absorbed high-boiling hydrocarbons from catalytic materials, reduce the amount of coke burned in the regenerator, and in addition provide a source of hydrocarbons which are available as a fuel or as a raw material for synthesizing chemicals. Furthermore, the catalyst can be regenerated to a low carbon value, which gives a high activity for the regenerated catalyst with a resulting high feed conversion.
  • Some of the heavy materials removed by the stripping process of this invention are metallo-porphyrins and metalloasphaltenes. Removal of these metallo-hydrocarbons reduces the amount and rate of metal deposition on the catalyst which increases catalyst life as to metal deactivation rate and total metal content of the catalyst. This in turn will reduce the catalyst makeup rate required to maintain catalyst activity and total metals inventory on the catalyst.
  • One of the high temperature stripping gases contains N 2 , CO 2 and O 2 .
  • the concentration of oxygen is low, in the range of 0.2 to about 2 vol.% of the combustion gases. This low amount of O 2 is desirable because it can react with some of the carbonaceous material on the spent coked catalyst and raise the temperature of the catalyst particles. This increased temperature will increase the rate and amount of heavy high boiling hydrocarbons stripped from the catalyst surface and possibly crack some of these heavy hydrocarbons to lower boiling material.
  • the combustion stripping gases have a high CO content.
  • the heavy high boiling hydrocarbons stripped from the catalyst can be added to the products from cracking and thus increase the yield and selectivity of the process.
  • Fig. 1 shows one embodiment of the invention wherein the catalyst passes through a steam stripper and then into a stripping vessel where the particles are fluidized and contacted with combustion gases from the first stage of a two- stage regenerator.
  • Fig. 2 shows an embodiment wherein the combustion gases are derived from the second stage of a two-stage regenerator.
  • Fig. 3 shows an embodiment wherein the catalyst passes through a steam stripper and then through two fluidized stripping zones in series.
  • the spent catalyst is contacted with hot combustion gases from the regenerator in a fluidized bed.
  • the stripping is carried out in a fluidized bed in order to avoid packing and bridging of the particle.
  • the rate of gas flow into the bed should be high enough to fluidize the bed, but not high enough to force the particles upwardly out of the bed.
  • the rate of gas flow will range from about 1.0 to about 3.5 feet per second.
  • the total residence time of the catalyst in the combustion gas stripping zone is preferably from about 0.5 to about 10 minutes and is most preferably from about 0.5 to about 5 minutes.
  • the combustion gases will, under typical operating conditions,be several hundred degrees hotter than the catalyst from the reactor, which may, for example, be at a temperature of about 900°F to about 1000°F.
  • the combustion gases are therefore at a high enough temperature to remove high boiling hydrocarbons sorbed on the catalyst by one or more of several mechanisms including (1) volatilization of hydrocarbons, (2) reaction of hydrocarbons with O 2 and volatilization of the products, and (3) cracking hydrocarbons to lighter, more easily volatilized fractions.
  • a temperature difference of less than about 50°F between the combustion gases and catalyst is relatively ineffective in removing a significant amount of high-boiling hydrocar
  • Temperatures greater than about 1500°F may harm the preferred zeolite catalyst, and reactions to a significant extent between CO 2 and coke will usually require a temperature of at least about 1600°F.
  • the preferred temperature of the combustion gases introduced into the bed is from about 1100°F to about 1500°F, and the most preferred temperature is from abou 1200°F to about 1400°F.
  • Spent catalyst after cracking a carbo-metallic oil and before stripping, may contain high-boiling hydrocarbons in an amount up to 66 percent by weight of the carbonaceous material on the catalyst or higher.
  • concentration of high-boiling hy drocarbons is reduced as low as possible, preferably to less than about 50 percent by weight, and most preferably to less than about 25 percent by weight of the carbonaceous material.
  • a portion of the solid coke may also be removed from the catalyst, thus further decreasing the heat load in the regenerator.
  • the hot combustion gases may vary widely in their composition depending upon the composition of the combustion-supporting gas supplied to the regenerator, which may for example, be air or oxygen, and the extent of reaction of the combustion- supporting gases within the regenerator at its point of withdrawal from the regenerator.
  • the combustion-supporting gases may comprise (1) O 2 plus CO plus CO 2 plus H 2 O or (2) CO 2 plus O 2 plus H 2 O. If air is the combustion-supporting gas, nitrogen will also be a component of the stripping gas.
  • a composition comprising essentially nitrogen, CO 2 and H 2 O, or nitrogen, H 2 O, CO and CO 2 removes high-boiling hydrocarbons from the catalyst primarily by supplying sensible heat to vaporize the hydrocarbons.
  • the resulting vaporized hydrocarbons are carried away with the combustion gases and the mixture is useful as a source of energy or for chemical synthesis.
  • concentration of CO in the combustion gases introduced into the stripping zone will depend upon the composition of the combustion-supporting gas and, for example, if the combustion-supporting gas to the regenerator consists essentially of air the concentration of CO may be as high as about 30 percent.
  • a composition comprising CO 2 , H 2 O, and nitrogen removes highboiling hydrocarbons by supplying heat to vaporize them, and also by reacting with coke on the catalyst to form gaseous reaction products according to the endothermic reaction
  • the concentration of CO 2 may suitably range from about 10 to 100 volume percent and is preferably in the range of about 15 to about 21 volume percent.
  • the temperature of the stripping gases, the initial CO 2 concentration, and the contact time between the catalyst and the stripping gas may be controlled to produce a gaseous product from the stripping zones containing less than about 21 percent CO 2 and preferably less than about 15 percent CO 2 .
  • a composition comprising CO 2 and O 2 removes high-boiling hydrocarbons by vaporization, and, additionally, both CO 2 and O 2 may react with coke to reduce the amount of coke on the catalyst and increase the temperature of the catalyst. This mixture may be used to retain or change the temperature within a stripping zone by controlling the ratio of CO 2 to O 2 since the reaction of O 2 is exothermic.
  • the concentration of oxygen may suitably be up to about 1.0 percent, and is preferably less than about 0.5 percent and most preferably is no more than about 0.1 percent. In these ranges the exothermic reaction of O 2 and coke keeps the temperature at a level where the catalyst is not adversely affected but sufficiently high to obtain an adequate rate of stripping of the sorbed heavy hydrocarbons.
  • the stripping may be carried out in multiple zones, and may be carried out using two or more combinations of combustion gases derived from different zones of the regenerator.
  • the catalyst is contacted in a first zone with combustion gases consisting essentially of nitrogen CO , CO 2 , and H 2 O, the nitrogen CO, CO 2 , and H 2 O being obtained from the first stage of a regenerator operating under oxygen-deficient conditions.
  • the partially stripped catalyst is then passed to a second stripping zone where it is fluidized and stripped with a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen and CO 2 obtained from the second stage of the regenerator, and at a higher temperature than the gases from the first regenerator stage.
  • the spent catalyst is first stripped with steam in a conventional way to remove gaseous products trapped in the interstitial space between the catalyst particles and is then stripped with hot combustion gases.
  • This steam stripping step may be carried out in apparatuses and by methods conventional and well-known in the petroleum processing art.
  • This process is preferably carried out in combination with a two-stage regenerator.
  • stripped spent catalyst is introduced into the first stage, i.e. the top section of the regenerator, and is partially regenerated in the first stage with partially spent regenerator gas from the second stage or lower section of the regenerator.
  • this can be added by any of several means available, e.g., below gas distributor 24, into dense bed 22 by an auxiliary line (not shown), into external transfer line 25, and the like.
  • the partially spent regenerator gas reacts with a portion of the coke on the spent catalyst resulting in a high CO-containing flue gas which is introduced into a stripping zone to strip catalyst.
  • the second stage is provided with an amount of oxygen in stoichiometric excess of that required to form all the combustion products.
  • a gaseous stream from this second stage comprising a portion of the air-CO 2 mixture is diverted from the regenerator and introduced into a stripper.
  • the remainder of the air and CO 2 from the second stage passes upwardly into the first stage of the regenerator where the oxygen and CO 2 react with the coke to partially regenerate the catalyst.
  • a third mode of carrying out this invention using a two-stage regenerator employs CO-rich flue gas from the first stage of the regenerator as a stripping agent in a first combustion gas stripping zone, and air and CO 2 -containing combustion gas from the second stage of the regenerator as the stripping agent in a second combustion gas stripping zone.
  • Fig. 1 reduced crude is introduced into the lower end of riser reactor 2 through inlet line 1 and is mixed with hot regenerated catalyst coming from bed 28 in regenerator 80 through line 3.
  • the feedstock is catalytically cracked in passing up riser 2 and the product vapors are separated from catalyst particles in vessel 4.
  • Riser 2 is of the vented type having an open upper end 40 surrounded by a cup-like member 42 which preferably extends above the upper end 40 of the riser so that the lip of the cup is slightly downstream of the open riser tube as shown.
  • a pair of product vapor lines 44, 46 communicate with the interior of the cup so as to discharge product vapors en tering the cup from the vapor space of vessel 4.
  • the cup forms an annulus 47 around and concentric to the upper end of the riser tube.
  • the transverse cross-sectional area of annulus 47 is preferably less than, more preferably about 60% or less of, the transverse cross-sectional area of riser tube 2.
  • This structure causes product vapors to undergo a complete reversal in their direction of flow after they are discharged from the riser tube but before they leave the vapor space of vessel 4.
  • the product vapors then make a further turn or change in direction of about 90° as they enter product lines 44 and 46.
  • the product vapors then enter cyclone separators 48, 50 having overhead conduits 52, 54, respectively, which convey the vapors to line 5 through a common header 56.
  • cyclone separators 48 and 50 may comprise only a single cyclone stage instead of having multiple stages as usually required to prevent excessive carry over of catalyst fines into the overhead vapor line in prior vented riser applications. This cup-like structure at the top of the riser is discussed further below.
  • the product vapors leave vessel 4 through line 5 and the catalyst falls into bed 6 within vessel 4.
  • the catalyst contaminated with coke, sorbed gaseous products, low boiling and high boiling hydrocarbons, is passed into steam stripper 8 through line 7.
  • Steam introduced into stripper 8 through line 9 removes interstitially trapped gaseous hydrocarbons from the catalyst and carries the stripped gases into vessel 4 where they accompany product vapors through line 5.
  • the partially stripped catalyst passes into combustion gas stripping vessel 60 where it is contacted with hot combustion gases (N 2 , H 2 O, CO, and CO 2 ) passing into stripper 60 from upper zone 23 of first regenerator stage 21 of regenerator 80 through line 64.
  • the stripped catalyst passes from stripper 60 into fluidized bed 22 of first stage 21 through line 63.
  • the catalyst is partially regenerated in first stage 21 by a mixture of air and CO 2 passing into bed 22 from zone 27 of first stage 26 through passageways in plate 24 with additional air added if necessary.
  • the partially regenerated catalyst is passed from the first stage 21 into second stage 26 by line 25.
  • Air for regeneration is introduced into bed 28 of second regeneration stage 26 by way of line 30.
  • Regenerated catalyst is recycled to riser 2 by way of line 3.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates an embodiment wherein the hot combustion stripping gases comprise nitrogen, CO 2 and O 2 and are derived from the second stage of a two-stage regenerator.
  • This embodiment differs from that of Fig. 1 in that the hot combustion gases are obtained from zone 27 of the second stage 26 of regenerator 80, passing into the stripper 70 through line 74.
  • These combustion gases are at a higher temperature than would be those derived from zone 23 of the first regenerator stage and thus are able to vaporize higher boiling hydrocarbons.
  • the small amount of O 2 present will oxidize a portion of the carbonaceous material and raise the temperature of the catalyst particles.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an embodiment having a two-stage hot combustion gas stripper in combination with a two-stage regenerator.
  • catalyst, partially stripped in steam stripper 8 passes through line 10 into first stage combustion gas stripper 11 where it is stripped of some of the high-boiling hydrocarbons by contact with combustion gases passing through line 18 from zone 23 of first regenerator stage 21.
  • the hot combustion gases, carrying hydrocarbons, leave stripper 11 through line 13.
  • the partially stripped catalyst is transferred from stripper 11 to stripper 14 where it is contacted with a hot mixture of gases comprising N 2 , O 2 and CO 2 from second stage 27 of regenerator 80.
  • the stripped catalyst is passed from stripper 14 to first stage 21 of regenerator 80 through line 20.
  • the stripped hydrocarbons together with the stripping gases are removed from stripper 14 through line 17.
  • the present invention is notable in providing a simple, relatively straightforward and highly productive approach to the conversion of carbo-metallic feed, such as reduced crude or the like, to various lighter products such as gasoline.
  • the carbo-metallic feed comprises or is composed of oil which boils above about 650°F.
  • oil, or at least the 650°F+ portion thereof, is characterized by a heavy metal content of at least about 4, preferably more than about 5, and most preferably at least about 5.5 ppm of
  • the carbo-metallic feed in the form of a pump able liquid, is brought into contact with hot conversion catalyst in a weight ratio of catalyst to feed in the range of about 3 to about 18 and preferably more than about 6.
  • the feed in said mixture undergoes a conversion step which includes cracking while the mixture of feed and catalyst is flowing through a progressive flow type reactor.
  • the reactor includes an elongated reaction chamber which is at least partly vertical or inclined and in which the feed material, resultant products and catalyst are maintained in contact with one another while flowing as a dilute phase or stream for a predetermined riser residence time in the range of about 0.5 to about 10 seconds.
  • the feed, catalyst, and other materials may be introduced into the reaction chamber at one or more points along its length.
  • the reaction is conducted at a temperature of about 900° to about 1400°F, measured at the reaction chamber exit, under a total pressure of about 10 to about 50 psia (pounds per square inch absolute) und ⁇ r conditions sufficiently severe to provide a conversion per pass in the range of about 50% or more and to lay down coke on the catalyst in an amount in the range of about 0.3 to about 3% by weight of catalyst and preferably at least about 0.5%.
  • the overall rate of coke production, based on weight of fresh feed, is in the range of about 4 to about 14% by weight.
  • the cata lyst is separated from the products, is efficiently stripped at elevated temperatures to remove high boiling components and other entrained or adsorbed hydrocarbons and is then regenerated with oxygen-containing combustion-supporting gas under conditions of time, temperature and atmosphere sufficient to reduce the carbon on the regenerated catalyst to about 0.25% or less and preferably about 0.05% or less by weight.
  • the process may be operated without added hydrogen in the reaction chamber. If desired, and preferably, the process may be operated without prior hydrotreating of the feed and/or without other process of removal of asphaltenes of metals from the feed, and this is true even where the carbo-metallic oil as a whole contains more than about 4, or more than about 5 or even more than about 5.5 ppm Nickel Equivalents by weight, of heavy metal and has a carbon residue on pyrolysis greater than about 1%, greater than about 1.4% or greater than about 2% by weight. Moreover, all of the converter feed, as above described, may be cracked in one and the same conversion chamber.
  • the cracking reaction may be carried out with a catalyst which has previously been used (recycled, except for such replacement as required to compensate for normal losses and deactivation) to crack a carbo-metallic feed under the above described conditions.
  • Heavy hydrocarbons not cracked to gasoline in a first pass may be recycled with or without hydrotreating for further cracking in contact with the same kind of feed in which they were first subjected to cracking conditions, and under the same kind of conditions; but operation in a substantially once-through or single pass mode (e.g. less than about 15% by volume of recycle based on volume of fresh feed) is preferred.
  • the catalyst is projected in a direction established by the elongated reaction chamber or an extension thereof, while the products, having lesser momentum, are caused to make an abrupt change of direction, resulting in an abrupt, substantially instantaneous ballistic separation of products from catalyst.
  • the thus separated catalyst is then stripped, regenerated and recycled to the reactor as above described.
  • the converter feed contains 650°F+ material which has not been hydrotreated and is characterized in part by containing at least about 5.5 parts per million of nickel equivalents of heavy metals.
  • the converter feed is brought together not only with the above mentioned cracking catalyst, but also with additional gaseous material including steam whereby the resultant suspension of catalyst and feed also includes gaseous material wherein the ratio of the partial pressure of the added gaseous material relative to that of the feed is in the range of about 0.25 to about 4.0.
  • the vapor residence time is in the range of about 0.5 to about 3 seconds when practicing this embodiment or aspect of the invention.
  • This preferred embodiment or aspect and the one referred to in the preceding paragraph may be used in combination with one another or separately.
  • the carbo-metallic feed is not only brought into contact with the catalyst, but also with one or more additional materials including particularly liquid water in a weight ratio relative to feed ranging from about 0.04 to about 0.25, more preferably about 0.04 to about 0.2 and still more preferably about 0.05 to about 0.15.
  • additional materials including particularly liquid water in a weight ratio relative to feed ranging from about 0.04 to about 0.25, more preferably about 0.04 to about 0.2 and still more preferably about 0.05 to about 0.15.
  • Such addi tional materials, including the liquid water may be brought into admixture with the feed prior to, during or after mixing the feed with the aforementioned catalyst, and either after or, preferably, before, vaporization of the feed.
  • the feed, catalyst and water e.g.
  • the progressive flow type reactor which may or may not be a reactor embodying the above described ballistic separation, at oneor more points along the reactor. While the mixture of feed, catalyst and steam produced by vaporization of the liquid water flows through the reactor, the feed undergoes the above mentioned conversion step which includes cracking.
  • the feed material, catalyst, steam and resultant products are maintained in contact with one another in the above mentioned elongated reaction chamber while flowing as a dilute phase or stream for the above mentioned predetermined riser residence time which is in the range of about 0.5 to about 10 seconds, preferably about 0.5 to about 2 seconds.
  • the present invention provides a process for the continuous catalytic conversion of a wide variety of carbo- metallic oils to lower molecular weight products, while maximizing production of highly valuable liquid products, and making it possible, if desired, to avoid vacuum distillation and other expensive treatments such as hydrotreating.
  • the invention is applicable to carbo-metallic oils, whether of petroleum origin or not. For example, provided they have the requisite boiling range, carbon residue on pyrolysis and heavy metals content, the invention may be applied to the processing of such widely diverse materials as heavy bottoms from crude oil, heavy bitumen crude oil, those crude oils known as "heavy crude” which approximate the properties of reduced crude, shale oil, tar sand extract, products from coal liquification and solvated coal, atmospheric and vacuum reduced crude, extracts and/or bottoms (raf finate) from solvent deasphalting, aromatic extract from lube oil refining, tar bottoms, heavy cycle oil, slop oil, other refinery waste streams and mixtures of the foregoing.
  • Such mixtures can for instance be prepared by mixing available hydrocarbon fractions, including oils, tars, pitches and the like. Also, powdered coal may be suspended in the carbo-metallic oil.
  • Persons skilled in the art are aware of techniques for demetalation of carbo- metallic oils, and demetalated oils may be converted using the invention; but it is an advantage of the invention that it can employ as feedstock carbo-metallic oils that have had no prior demetalation treatment.
  • the invention can be applied to hydrotreated feedstocks; but it is an advantage of the invention that it can successfully convert carbo-metallic oils which have had substantially no prior hydrotreatment-
  • the preferred application of the process is to reduced crude, i.e., that fraction of crude oil boiling at and above 650°F, along or in admixture with virgin gas oils. While the use of material that has been subjected to prior vacuum distilla ⁇ tion is not excluded, it is an advantage of the invention that it can satisfactorily process material which has had no prior vacuum distillation, thus saving on capital investment and operating costs as compared to conventional FCC processes that require a vacuum distillation unit.
  • one provides a carbo- metallic oil feedstock, at least about 70%, more preferably at least about 85% and still more preferably about 100% (by volume) of which boils at and above about 650°F. All boiling temperatures herein are based on standard atmospheric pressure conditions.
  • carbo-metallic oil partly or wholly composed of material which boils at and above about 650°F, such material is referred to herein as 650°F+ material; and 650°F+ material which is part of or has been separated from an oil containing component boiling above and below 650°F may be referred to as a 650°F+ fraction.
  • the carbo- metallic oils contemplated by the invention may contain material which may not boil under any conditions; for example, certain asphalts and asphaltenes may crack thermally during distillation, apparently without boiling.
  • the feed comprises at least about 70% by volume of material which boils above about 650°F
  • the 70% in question may include some material which will not boil or volatilize at any temperature.
  • the contemplated feeds, or at least the 650°F+ material therein have a carbon residue on pyrolysis of at least about 2 or greater.
  • the Conradson carbon content may be in the range of about 2 to about 12 and most frequently at least about 4. A particularly common range is about 4 to about 8. Those feeds having a Conradson carbon content greater than about 6 may need special means for controlling excess heat in the regenerator.
  • the feed has an average composition characterized by an atomic hydrogen to carbon ratio in the range of about 1.2 to about 1.9, and preferably about 1.3 to about 1.8.
  • the carbo-metallic feeds employed in accordance with the invention, or at least the 650°F+ material therein, may contain at least about 4 parts per million of Nickel Equivalents, as defined above, of which at least about 2 parts per million is nickel (as metal, by weight).
  • Carbo- metallic oils within the above range can be prepared from mixtures of two or more oils, some of which do and some of which do not contain the quantities of Nickel Equivalents and nickel set forth above. It should also be noted that the above values for Nickel Equivalents and nickel represent time-weighted averages for a substantial period of operation of the conversion unit, such as one month, for example.
  • the carbo-metallic oils useful in the invention may and usually do contain significant quantities of heavy, high boiling compounds containing nitrogen, a substantial portion of which may be basic nitrogen.
  • the total nitrogen content of the carbo-metallic oils may be at least about 0.05% by weight. Since cracking catalysts owe their cracking activity to acid sites on the catalyst surface or in its pores, basic nitrogen-containing compounds may temporarily neutralize these sites, poisoning the catalyst. However, the catalyst is not permanently damaged since the nitrogen can be burned off the catalyst during regeneration, as a result of which the acidity of the active sites is restored.
  • the carbo-metallic oils may also include significant quantities of pentane insolubles, for example at least about 0.5% by weight, and more typically 2% or more or even about 4% or more. These may include for instance asphaltenes and other materials.
  • Alkali and alkaline earth metals generally do not tend to vaporize in large quantities under the distillation conditions employed in distilling crude oil to prepare the vacuum gas oils normally used as FCC feedstocks. Rather, these metals remain for the most part in the "bottoms" fraction (the non-vaporized high boiling portion) which may for instance be used in the production of asphalt or other by-products.
  • bottoms the non-vaporized high boiling portion
  • reduced crude and other carbo- metallic oils are in many cases bottoms products, and therefore may contain significant quantities of alkali and alkaline earth metals such as sodium. These metals deposit upon the catalyst during cracking.
  • these metals may undergo interactions and reactions with the catalyst (including the catalyst support) which are not normally experienced in processing VGO under conventional FCC processing conditions. If the catalyst characteristics and regeneration conditions so require, one will of course take the necessary precautions to limit the amounts of alkali and alkaline earth metal in the feed, which metals may enter the feed not only as brine associated with the crude oil in its natural state, but also as components of water or steam which are supplied to the cracking unit. Thus, careful desalting of the crude used to prepare the carbo-metallic feed may be important when the catalyst is particularly susceptible to alkali and alkaline earth metals.
  • the content of such metals (hereinafter collectively referred to as "sodium") in the feed can be maintained at about 1 ppm or less, based on the weight of the feedstock.
  • the sodium level of the feed may be keyed to that of the catalyst, so as to maintain the sodium level of the catalyst which is in use substantially the same as or less than that of the replacement catalyst which is charged to the unit.
  • the carbo-metallic oil feedstock constitutes at least about 70% by volume of material which boils above about 650°F, and at least about 10% of the material which boils above about 650°F will not boil below about 1025 °F.
  • the average composition of this 650°F+ material may be further characterized by: (a) an atomic hydrogen to carbon ratio in the range of about 1.3 to about 1.8; (b) a Conradson carbon value of at least about 2; (c) at least about four parts per million of Nickel Equivalents, as defined above, of which at least about two parts per million is nickel (as metal, by weight); and (d) at least one of the following: (i) at least about 0.3% by weight of sulfur, (ii) at least about 0.05% by weight of nitrogen, and (iii) at least about 0.5% by weight of pentane insclubles.
  • the preferred feed will include all of (i), (ii), and (iii), and other components found in oils of petroleum and non-petroleum origin may also be present in varying quantities providing they do not prevent operation of the process.
  • the present invention has the definite advantage that it can successfully produce large conversions and very substantial yields of liquid hydrocarbon fuels from carbo-metallic oils which have not been subjected to any substantial amount of cracking.
  • the carbo-metallic feed introduced into the present process is oil which has not previously been contacted with cracking catalyst under cracking conditions.
  • the process of the invention is suitable for operation in a substantially once-through or single pass mode.
  • the volume of recycle, if any, based on the volume of fresh feed is preferably about 15% or less and more preferably about 10% or less.
  • the weight ratio of catalyst to fresh feed (feed which has not previously been exposed to cracking catalyst under cracking conditions) used in the process is in the range of about 3 to about 18.
  • Preferred and more preferred ratios axe about 4 to about 12, more preferably about 5 to about 10 and still more preferably about 6 to about 10, a ratio of about 10 presently being considered most nearly optimum.
  • controlling the catalyst to oil ratio at relatively low levels within the aforesaid ranges tends to reduce the coke yield of the process, based on fresh feed.
  • daily plant through-put is defined as the number of barrels of fresh feed boiling above about 650°F which that plant processes per average day of operation to liquid products boiling below about 430°F.
  • the present invention may be practiced in the range of about 2 to about 30 tons of catalyst inventory per 1000 barrels of daily plant through-put. Based on the objective of maximizing contact of feed with fresh catalyst, it has been suggested that operating with about 2 to 5 or even less than 2 tons of catalyst inventory per 1000 barrels of daily plant throughput is desirable when operating with carbo-metallic oils.
  • catalyst may be added continuously or periodically, such as, for example, to make up for normal losses of catalyst from the system.
  • catalyst addition may be conducted in conjunction with withdrawal of catalyst, such as, for example, to maintain or increase the average activity level of the catalyst in the unit.
  • the rate at which virgin catalyst is added to the unit may be in the range of about 0.1 to about 3, more preferalby about 0.15 to about 2, and most preferably to about 0.2 to about 1.5 pounds per barrel of feed. If on the other hand equilibrium catalyst from FCC operation is to be utilized, replacement rates as high as about 5 pounds per barrel can be practiced.
  • the process may be practiced with catalyst bearing accumulations of heavy metal (s) in the form of elemental metal (s), oxide (s), sulfide (s) or other compounds which heretofore would have been considered quite intolerable in conventional FCC-VGO operations.
  • catalyst bearing heavy metals accumulations in the range of about 3,000 or more ppm Nickel Equivalents, on the average, is contemplated.
  • the concentration of Nickel Equivalents of metals on catalyst can range up to about 50,000 ppm or higher. More specifically, the accumulation may be in the range of about 3,000 to about 30,000 ppm, preferably in the range of 3,000 to 20,000 ppm, and more preferably about 3,000 to about 12,000 ppm.
  • oils may be pretreated with a sorbent to reduce the levels of these contaminants to the aforementioned or lower values.
  • Such upgrading processes are described in U.S. Patent No. 4,263,128 of April 21, 1981, in the name of David B. Bartholic, the entire disclosure of said patent being incorporated herein by reference.
  • the equilibrium concentration of heavy metals in the circulating inventory of catalyst can be controlled (including maintained or varied as desired or needed) by manipulation of the rate of catalyst addition discussed above.
  • addition of catalyst may be maintained at a rate which will control the heavy metals accumulation on the catalyst in one of the ranges set forth above.
  • a catalyst having a relatively high level of cracking activity providing high levels of conversion and productivity at low residence times.
  • the conversion capabilities of the catalyst may be expressed in terms of the conversion produced during actual operation of the process and/or in terms of conversion produced in standard catalyst activity tests.
  • conversion is expressed in liquid volume percent, based on fresh feed.
  • the preferred catalyst may be defined as one which, in its virgin or equilibrium state, exhibits a specified activity expressed as a percentage in terms of MAT (micro-activity test) conversion.
  • the foregoing percentage is the volume percentage of standard feedstock which a catalyst under evaluation will convert to 430°F end point gasoline, lighter products and coke at 900°F, 16 WHSV (weight hourly space velocity, calculated ona moisture free basis, using clean catalyst which has been dried at 1100°F, weighed and then conditioned, for a period of at least 3 hours at about 25°C and 50% relative humidity, until about one hour or less prior to contacting the feed) and 3C/O (catalyst to oil weight ratio) by ASTM D-32 MAT test D-3907-80, using an appropriate standard feedstock, e.g. a sweet light primary gas oil, such as that used by Davison, Division of W. R. Grace, having the following analysis and properties: API Gravity at 60°F, degrees 31.0
  • FBP 834 The gasoline end point and boiling temperature-volume percent relationships of the produce produced in the MAT conversion test may for example be determined by simulated distillation techniques, for example modifications of gas chromate graphic "Sim-D", ASTM D-2887-73. The results of such simulations are in reasonable agreement with the results obtained by subjecting larger samples of material to standard laboratory distillation techniques. Conversion is calculated by subtracting from 100 the volume percent (based on fresh feed) of those products heavier than gasoline which remain in the recovered product.
  • relative activity is a ratio obtained by dividing the weight of a standard or reference catalyst which is or would be required to produce a given level of conversion, as compared to the weight of an operating catalyst (whether proposed or actually used) which is or would be required to produce the same level of conversion in the same or equivalent feedstock under the same or equivalent conditions.
  • Said ratio of catalyst weights may be expressed as a numerical ratio, but preferably is converted to a percentage basis.
  • the standard catalyst is preferably chosen from among catalysts useful for conducting the present invention, such as for example zeolite fluid cracking catalysts, and is chosen for its ability to produce a predetermined level of conversion in a standard feed under the conditions of temperature, WHSV, catalyst to oil ratio and other conditions set forth in the preceding description of the MAT conversion test and in ASTM D-32 MAT test D-3907-80. Conversion is the volume percentage of feedstock that is converted to 430°F end point gasoline, lighter products and coke. For standard feed, one may employ the above-mentioned light primary gas oil, or equivalent.
  • a "standard catalyst curve" a chart or graph of conversion (as above defined) vs. reciprocal WHSV for the standard catalyst and feedstock.
  • a sufficient number of runs is made under ASTM D-3907-80 conditions (as modified above) using standard feedstock at varying levels of WHSV to prepare an accurate "curve" of conversion vs. WHSV for the standard feedstock.
  • This curve should traverse all or substantially all of the various levels of conversion including the range of conversion within which it is expected that the operating catalyst will be tested. From this curve, one may establish a standard WHSV for test comparisons and a standard value of reciprocal WHSV corresponding to that level of conversion which has been chosen to represent 100% relative activity in the standard catalyst.
  • the aforementioned reciprocal WHSV and level of conversion are, respectively, 0.0625 and 75%.
  • the relative activity may then be calculated by dividing the hypothetical reciprocal WHSV by the reciprocal standard WHSV, which is 1/16, or .0625.
  • the result is relative activity expressed in terms of a decimal fraction, which may then be multiplied by 100 to convert to percent relative activity.
  • a relative activity of 0.5, or 50% means that it would take twice the amount of the operating catalyst to give the same conversion as the standard catalyst, i.e., the production catalyst is 50% as active as the reference catalyst.
  • Relative activity at a constant level of conversion is also equal to the ratio of the Weight Hourly Space Velocity (WHSV) of an operational or "test" catalyst divided by the WHSV of a standard catalyst selected for its level of conversion at MAT conditions.
  • WHSV Weight Hourly Space Velocity
  • a MAT conversion versus relative activity curve may be developed.
  • the catalyst may be introduced into the process in its virgin form or, as previously indicated, in other than virgin form; e.g. one may use equilibrium catalyst withdrawn from another unit, such as catalyst that has been employed in the cracking of a different feed.
  • equilibrium catalyst withdrawn from another unit such as catalyst that has been employed in the cracking of a different feed.
  • the preferred catalysts may be described on the basis of their activity "as introduced” into the process of the present invention, or on the basis of their "as withdrawn” or equilibrium activity in the process of the present invention, or on both of these bases.
  • a preferred activity level of virgin and non-virgin catalyst "as introduced” into the process of the present invention is at least about 60% by MAT conversion, and preferably at least about 20%, more preferably at least about 40% and still more preferably at least about 60% in terms of relative activity.
  • An acceptable "as withdrawn” or equilibrium activity level of catalyst which has been used in the process of the present invention is at least about 20% or more, but about 40% or more and preferably about 60% or more are preferred values on a relative activity basis, and an activity level of 60% or more on a MAT conversion basis is also contemplated. More preferably, it is desired to employ a catalyst which will, under the conditions of use in the unit, establish art equilibrium activity at or above the indicated level. The catalyst activities are determined with catalyst having less than 0.01 coke, e.g. regenerated catalyst.
  • a particularly preferred class of catalysts includes those which have pore structures into which molecules of feed material may enter for adsorption and/or for contact with active catalytic sites within or adjacent the pores.
  • Various types of catalysts are available within this classification, including for example the layered silicates, e.g. smectites. Although the most widely available catalysts within this classification are the well-known zeolite-containing catalysts, non-zeolite catalysts are also contemplated.
  • the preferred zeolite-containing catalysts may include any zeolite, whether natural, semi-synthetic or synthetic, alone or in admixture with other materials which do not significantly impair the suitability of the catalyst, provided the resultant catalyst has the activity and pore structure referred to above.
  • the virgin catalyst may include the zeolite component associated with or dispersed in a porous refractory inorganic oxide carrier, in such case the catalyst may for example contain about 1% to about 60%, more preferably about 15 to about 50%, and most typically about 20 to about 45% by weight, based on the total weight of catalyst (water free basis) of the zeolite, the balance of the catalyst being the porous refractory inorganic oxide alone or in combination with any of the known adjuvants for promoting or suppressing various desired and undesired reactions.
  • zeolite components of the zeolite containing catalysts will be those which are known to be useful in FCC cracking processes. In general, these are crystalline aluminosilicates, typically made up of tetra coordinated aluminum atoms associated through oxygen atoms with adjacent silicon atoms in the crystal structure.
  • zeolite as used in this disclosure contemplates not only aluminosilicates, but also substances in which the aluminum has been partly or wholly replaced, such as for instance by gallium and/or other metal atoms, and further includes substances in which all or part of the silicon has been replaced, such as for instance by germanium. Titanium and zirconium substitution may also be practiced.
  • the zeolite may be ion exchanged, and where the zeolite is a component of a catalyst composition, such ion exchanging may occur before or after incorporation of the zeolite as a component of the composition.
  • Suitable cations for replacement of sodium in the zeolite crystal structure include ammonium (decomposable to hydrogen), hydrogen, rare earth metals, alkaline earth metals, etc.
  • suitable ion exchange procedures and cations which may be exchanged into the zeolite crystal structure are well known to those skilled in the art.
  • Examples of the naturally occurring crystalline alumino- silicate zeolites which may be used as or included in the catalyst for the Dresent invention are faujasite, mordenite, clinoptilote, chabazite, analcite, crionite, as well as levynite, dachiardite, paulingite, noselite, ferriorite, heulandite, scolccite, stibite, harmotome, phillipsite, brewsterite, flarite, datolite, gmelinite, caumnite, leucite, lazurite, scaplite, mesolite, ptolite, nephline, matrolite, offretite and sodalite.
  • Examples of the synthetic crystalline aluminosilicate zeolites which are useful as or in the catalyst for carrying out the present invention are Zeolite X, U.S. Patent No. 2,882,244; .Zeolite Y, U'.S. Patent No. 3,130,007; and Zeolite A, U.S. Patent No. 2,882,243; as well as Zeolite B, U.S. Patent No. 3,008,803; Zeolite D, Canada Patent No. 661,981; Zeolite E, Canada Patent No. 614,495; Zeolite F, U.S. Patent No. 2,996,358; Zeolite H, U.S. Patent No. 3,010,789; Zeolite J. U.S. Patent No.
  • the crystalline aluminosilicate zeolites having a fauja- site-type crystal structure are particularly preferred for use in the present invention. This includes particularly natural faujasite and Zeolite X and Zeolite Y.
  • the crystalline aluminosilicate zeolites such as synthetic faujasite, will under normal conditions crystallize as regularly shaped, discrete particles of about one to about ten microns in size, and, accordingly, this is the size range frequently found in commerical catalysts which can be used in the invention.
  • the particle size of the zeolites is from about 0.1 to about 10 microns and more preferably is from about 0.1 to about 2 microns or less.
  • zeolites prepared in situ from calcined kaolin may be characterized by even smaller crystallites. Crystalline zeolites exhibit both an interior and an exterior surface area, the latter being defined as "portal" surface area, with the largest portion of the total surface area being internal.
  • portal surface area we refer to the outer surface of the zeolite crystal through which reactants are considered to pass in order to convert to lower boiling products.
  • Blockages of the internal channels by, for example, coke formation, blockages of entrance to the internal channels by deposition of coke in the portal surface area, and contamination by metals poisoning, will greatly reduce the total zeolite surface area. Therefore, to minimize the effect of contamination and pore blockage, crystals larger than the normal size cited above are preferably not used in the catalysts of this invention.
  • zeolite-containing catalysts are available with carriers containing a variety of metal oxides and combination thereof, include for example silica, alumina, magnesia, and mixtures thereof and mixtures of such oxides with clays as e.g. described in U.S. Patent No. 3,034,948.
  • One may for example select any of the zeolite-containing molecular sieve fluid cracking catalysts which are suitable for production of gasoline from vacuum gas oils.
  • certain advantages may be attained by judicious selection of catalysts havingmarked resistance to metals.
  • a metal resistant zeolite catalyst is, for instance, described in U.S. Patent No.
  • the catalyst contains 1-40 weight percent of a rare earth-exchanged zeolite, the balance being a refractory metal oxide having specified pore volume and size distribution.
  • Other catalysts described as "metals-tolerant" are described in the above mentioned Cimbala, et al., article.
  • a useful catalyst may have a skeletal density of about 150 pounds per cubic foot and an average particle size of about 60-70 microns, with less than 10% of the particles having a size less than about 40. microns and less than 80% having a size less than about 50-60 microns.
  • the AGZ-290, GRZ-1, CCZ-220 and Super DX catalysts referred to above are products of W. R. Grace and Co.
  • F-87 and FOX-9 are products of Filtrol
  • HFZ-20 and HEZ-55 are products of Engelhard/Houdry.
  • the above are properties of virgin catalyst and, except in the case of zeolite content, are adjusted to a water free basis, i.e. based on material ignited at 1750°F.
  • the zeolite content is derived by compari son of the X-ray intensities of a catalyst sample and of a standard material composed of high purity sodium Y zeolite in accordance with draft #6, dated January 9, 1978, of proposed ASTM Standard Method entitled "Determination of the Faujasite Content of a Catalyst".
  • the Super D family and especially a catalyst designated GRZ-1 are particularly preferred.
  • Super DX has given particularly good results with Arabian light crude.
  • the GRZ-1 although substantially more expensive than the Super DX at present, appears somewhat more metalstolerant.
  • the best catalysts for carrying out the present invention are those which are characterized by matrices with feeder pores having large minimum diameters and large mouths to facilitate diffusion of high molecular weight molecules through the matrix to the portal surface area of molecular sieve particles within the matrix.
  • Such matrices preferably also have a relatively large pore volume in order to soak up unvaporized portions of the carbo-metallic oil feed.
  • significant numbers of liquid hydrocarbon molecules can diffuse to active catalytic sites both in the matrix and in sieve particles on the surface of the matrix.
  • catalysts having a total pore volume greater than 0.2 cc/gm, preferably at least 0.4 cc/gm, more preferably at least 0.6 cc/gm and most preferably in the range of 0.7 to 1.0 cc/gm, and with matrices wherein at least 0.1 cc/gm, and preferably at least 0.2 cc/gm, of said total pore volume is comprised of feeder pores having diameters in the range of about 400 to about 6000 angstrom units, more preferably in the range of about 1000 to about 6000 angstrom units.
  • Additives may be introduced into the riser, the regenerator or other conversion system components to passivate the non-selec tive catalytic activity of heavy metals deposited on the con version catalyst.
  • Preferred additives for practicing the pres ent invention include those disclosed in U.S. Patent Applica tion Serial No.263,395 , filed simultaneously herewith in the name of William P. Hettinger, Jr., and entitled PASSIVATING HEAVY METALS IN CARBO-METALLIC OIL CONVERSION, the entire dis closure of said U.S. application being incorporated herein by reference.
  • Catalysts for carrying out the present invention may also employ other metal additives for controlling the adverse effects of vanadium as described in PCT International Applica tion Serial No. PCT/US81/00356 filed in the U.S. Receiving Office on March 19, 1981, in the names of Ashland Oil, Inc., et al., and entitled "Immobilization of Vanadia Deposited on Catalytic Materials During Carbo-Metallic Oil Conversion".
  • a particularly preferred catalyst also includes vanadium traps as disclosed in U.S. Patent Application Serial No.
  • the process of the present invention can be conducted in the substantial absence of tin and/or antmony or at least in the presence of a catalyst which is substantially free of either or both of these metals.
  • the process of the present invention may be operated with the above described carbo-metallic oil and catalyst as substantially the sole materials charged to the reaction zone.
  • the charging of additional materials is not excluded.
  • the charging of recycled oil to the reaction zone has already been mentioned.
  • still other materials fulfilling a variety of functions may also be charged.
  • the carbo-metallic oil and catalyst usually represent the major proportion by weight of the total of all materials charged to the reaction zone.
  • Certain of the additional materials which may be used perform functions which offer significant advantages over the process as performed with only the carbo-metallic oil and catalyst. Among these functions are: controlling the effects of heavy metals and other catalyst contaminants; enhancing catalyst activity; absorbing excess heat in the catalyst as received from the regenerator; disposal of pollutants or conversion thereof to a form or forms in which they may be more readily separated from products and/or disposed of; controlling catalyst temperature; diluting the carbo-metallic oil vapors to reduce their partial pressure and increase the yield of desired products; adjusting feed/catalyst contact time; donation of hydrogen to a hydrogen deficient carbo-metallic oil feed stock for example as disclosed in copending application Serial No.
  • additional materials which are in gaseous (including vaporous) form in the reaction zone in admixture with the catalyst and vapors of feed and products.
  • the increased volume of material in the reaction zone resulting from the presence of such additional materials tend to increase the velocity of flow through the reaction zone with a corresponding decrease in the residence time of the catalyst and oxidized heavy metals borne thereby. Because of this reduced residence time, there is less opportunity for reduction of the oxidized heavy metals to elemental form and therefore less of the harmful elemental metals are available for contacting the feed and products.
  • Added materials may be introduced into the process in any suitable fashion, some examples of which follow. For instance, they may be admixed with the carbo-metallic oil feedstock prior to contact of the latter with the catalyst. Alternatively, the added materials may, if desired, be admixed with the catalyst prior to contact of the latter with the feedstock. Separate portions of the added materials may be separately admixed with both catalyst and carbo-metallic oil. Moreover, the feedstock, catalyst and additional materials may, if desired, be brought together substantially simultaneously. A portion of the added materials may be mixed with catalyst and/or carbo- metallic oil in any of the above described ways, while additional portions are subsequently brought into admixture.
  • a portion of the added materials may be added to the carbo-metallic oil and/or to the catalyst before they reach the reaction zone, while another portion of the added materials is introduced directly into the reaction zone.
  • the added materials may be introduced at a plurality of spaced locations in the reaction zone or along the length thereof, if elongated.
  • the amount of additional materials which may be present in the feed, catalyst or reaction zone for carrying out the above functions, and others, may be varied as desired; but said amount will preferably be sufficient to substantially heat balance the process.
  • These materials may for example be introduced into the reaction zone in a weight ratio relative to feed of up to about 0.4, preferably in the range of about 0.02 to about 0.4, more preferably about 0.03 to about 0.3 and most preferably about 0.05 to about 0.25.
  • H 2 O may be attained by introducing H 2 O to the reaction zone in the form of steam or of liquid water or a combination thereof in a weight ratio relative to feed in the range of about 0.04 or more, or more preferably about 0.05 to about 0.1 or more.
  • H 2 O tends to inhibit reduction of catalyst-borne oxides, sulfites and sulfides to the free metallic form which is believed to promote condensation-dehydrogenation with consequent promotion of coke and hydrogen yield and accompanying loss of product.
  • H 2 O may also, to some extent, reduce deposition of metals onto the catalyst surface.
  • H 2 O tends to increase the acidity of the catalyst by Bronsted acid formation which in turn enhances the activity of the catalyst. Assuming the H 2 O as supplied is cooler than the regenerated catalyst and/or the temperature of the reaction zone, the sensible heat involved in raising the temperature of the H 2 O upon contacting the catalyst in the reaction zone or elsewhere can absorb excess heat from the catalyst. Where the H 2 O is or includes recycled water that contains for example about 500 to about 5000 ppm of H 2 S dissolved therein, a number of additional advantages may accrue.
  • H 2 S need not be vented to the atmosphere, the recycled water does not require further treatment to remove H 2 S and the H 2 S may be of assistance in reducing coking of the catalyst by passivation of the heavy metals, i.e. by conversion thereof to the sulfide form which has a lesser tendency than the free metals to enhance coke and hydrogen production.
  • the presence of H 2 O can dilute the carbo-metallic oil vapors, thus reducing their partial pressure and tending to increase the yield of the desired products. It has been reported that H 2 O is useful in combination with other materials in generating hydrogen during cracking; thus it may be able to act as a hydrogen donor for hydrogen deficient carbo-metallic oil feedstocks.
  • the H 2 O may also serve certain purely mechanical functions such as: assisting in the atomizing or dispersion of the feed; competing with high molecular weight molecules for adsorption on the surface of the catalyst, thus interrupting coke formation; steam distillation of vaporizable product from unvaporized feed material; and disengagement of product from catalyst upon conclusion of the cracking reaction. It is particularly preferred to bring together H 2 O, catalyst and carbo- metallic oil substantially simultaneously. For example, one may admix H 2 O and feedstock in an atomizing nozzle and immediately direct the resultant spray into contact with the catalyst at the downstream end of the reaction zone.
  • liquid water be brought into intimate admixture with the carbo-metallic oil in a weight ratio of about 0.04 to about 0.25 at or prior to the time of introduction of the oil into the reaction zone, whereby the water (e.g., in the form of liquid water or in the form of steam produced by vaporization of liquid water in contact with the oil) enters the reaction zone as oart of the flow of feedstock which enters such zone.
  • the foregoing is advantageous in promoting dispersion of the feedstock.
  • the heat of vaporization of the water which heat is absorbed from the catalyst, from the feedstock, or from both, causes the water to be a more efficient heat sink than steam alone.
  • the weight ratio of liquid water to feed is. about 0.04 to about 0.2 more preferably about 0.05 to about 0.15.
  • the liquid water may be introduced into the process in the above described manner or in other ways, and in either event the introduction of liquid water may be accompanied by the introduction of additional amounts of water as steam into the same or different portions of the reaction zone or into the catalyst and/or feedstock.
  • the amount of additional steam may be in a weight ratio relative to feed in the range of about 0.01 to about 0.25, with the weight ratio of total H 2 O (as steam and liquid water) to feedstock being about 0.3 or less.
  • the charging weight ratio of liquid water relative to steam in such combined use of liquid water and steam may for example range from about 15 which is presently preferred, to about 0.2. Such ratio may be maintained at a predetermined level within such range or varied as necessary or desired to adjust or maintain heat balance.
  • the dehydrogenation-condensation activity of heavy metals may be inhibited by introducing hydrogen sulfide gas into the reaction zone.
  • Hydrogen may be made available for hydrogen deficient carbo-metallic oil feedstocks by introducing into the reaction zone either a conventional hydrogen donor diluent such as a heavy naphtha or relatively low molecular weight carbon-hydrocarbon fragment contri butors, including for example: light paraffins; low molecular weight alcohols and other compounds which permit or favor intermolecular hydrogen transfer; and compounds that chemically combine to generate hydrogen in the reaction zone such as by reaction of carbon monoxide with water, or with alcohols, or with olefins, or with other materials or mixtures of the foregoing.
  • a conventional hydrogen donor diluent such as a heavy naphtha or relatively low molecular weight carbon-hydrocarbon fragment contri butors, including for example: light paraffins; low molecular weight alcohols and other compounds which permit or favor intermolecular hydrogen transfer;
  • the invention may be practiced in a wide variety of apparatus.
  • the preferred apparatus includes means for rapidly vaporizing as much feed as possible and efficiently admixing feed and catalyst (although not necessarily in that order), for causing the resultant mixture to flow as a dilute suspension in a progressive flow mode, and for separating the catalyst from cracked products and any uncracked or only partially cracked feed at the end of a predetermined residence time or tines, it being preferred that all or at least a substantial portion of the product should be abruptly separated from at least a portion of the catalyst.
  • the apparatus may include, along its elongated reaction chamber, one or more points for introduction of carbo-metallic feed, one or more points for introduction of catalyst, one or more points for introduction of additional material, one or more points for withdrawal of products and one or more points for withdrawal of catalyst.
  • the means for introducing feed, catalyst and other material may range from open pipes to sophisticated jets or spray nozzles, it being preferred to use means capable of breaking up the liquid feed into fine droplets.
  • the catalyst, liquid water (when used) and fresh feed are brought together in an apparatus similar to that disclosed in U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 969,601 of George D. Myers, et al, entitled “Method for Cracking Residual Oils", filed December 14, 1978, and the successive continuation applications thereof. Serial No. 99,050 and Serial No. 254,367.
  • the entire disclosures of these applications are hereby incorporated herein by reference. According to a particularly preferred embodiment based on a suggestion which is understood to have emanated from Mr. Stephen M.
  • the liquid water and carbo-metallic oil prior to their introduction into the riser, are caused to pass through a propeller, apertured disc, or any appropriate high shear agitating means for forming a "homogenized mixture" containing finely divided droplets of oil and/or water with oil and/or water present as a continuous phase.
  • the reaction chamber or at least the major portion thereof, be more nearly vertical than horizontal and have a length to diameter ratio of at least about 10, more preferably anout 20 or 25 or more.
  • a vertical riser type reactor is preferred. If tubular, the reactor can be of uniform diameter throughout or may be provided with a continuous or step-wise increase in diameter along the reaction path to maintain or vary the velocity along the flow path.
  • the charging means (for catalyst and feed) and the reactor configuration are such as to provide a relatively high velocity of flow and dilute suspension of catalyst.
  • the vapor or catalyst velocity in the riser will- be usually at least about 25 and more typically at least about 35 feet per second. This velocity may range up to about 55 or about 75 feet or about 100 feet per second or higher.
  • the vapor velocity at the top of the reactor may be higher than that at the bottom and may for example be about 80 feet per second at the top and about 40 feet per second at the bottom.
  • the velocity capabilities of the reactor will in general be sufficient to prevent substantial build-up of catalyst bed in the bottom or other portions of the riser, whereby the catalyst loading in the riser can be maintained below about 4 or 5 pounds, as for example about 0.5 pounds, and below about 2 pounds, as for example 0.8 pounds, per cubic foot, respectively, at the upstream (e.g., bottom) and downstre-am (e.g., top) ends of the riser.
  • the progressive flow mode involves, for example,, flowing of catalyst, feed and products as a stream in a positively controlled and maintained direction established by the elongated nature of the reaction zone. This is not to suggest however that there must be strictly linear flow. As is well known, turbulent flow and "slippage" of catalyst may occur to some extent especially in certain ranges of vapor velocity and sose catalyst loadings, although it has been reported advisable to employ sufficiently low catalyst loadings to vrestrict slippage and back-mixing.
  • the reactor is one which abruptly separates a substantial portion or all of the vaporized cracked products from the catalyst at one or more points along the riser, and preferably separates substantially all of the vaporized cracked products from the catalyst at the downstream end of the riser.
  • a preferred type of reactor em bodies ballistic separation of the catalyst and products; that is, catalyst is projected in a direction established by the riser tube, and is caused to continue its motion in the general direction so established, while the products, having lesser momentum, are caused to make an abrupt change of direction, resulting in an abrupt, substantially instantaneous separation of product from catalyst.
  • the riser tube is provided with a substantially unobstructed discharge opening at its downstream end for discharge of catalyst.
  • An exit port in the side of the tube adjacent the downstream end receives the products.
  • the discharge opening communicates with a catalyst flow path which extends to the usual stripper and regenerator, while the exit port communicates with a product, flow path which is substantially or entirely separated from the catalyst flow path and leads to separation means for separating the products from the relatively small portion of catalyst, if any, which manages to gain entry to the product exit port.
  • a ballistic separation apparatus and techniques as above described are found in U.S. Patents 4,066,533 and 4,070,159 to Myers, et al., the disclosures of which patents are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
  • the mode of catalyst/product separation presently deemed best for practicing the present invention is disclosed in a U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 263,399, filed simultaneously herewith in the names of Paul W. Walters, Roger M. Benslay, and Dwight F. Barger, entitled CARBO-METALLIC OIL CONVERSION WITH BALLISTIC SEPARATION.
  • the ballistic separation step preferably includes at least a partial reversal of direction by the product vapors upon discharge from the riser tube; that is, the product vapors make a turn or change of direction which exceeds 90° at the riser tube outlet.
  • the lip of the cup is slightly upstream of, or below the downstream end or top of the riser tube, and the cup is preferably concentric with the riser tube.
  • the feedstock is customarily preheated, often to temperatures significantly higher than are required to make the feed sufficiently fluid for pumping and for introduction into the reactor. For example, preheat temperatures as high as about 700° or 800°F have been reported. But in our process as presently practiced it is preferred to restrict preheating of the feed, so that the feed is capable of absorbing a larger amount of heat from the catalyst while the catalyst raises the feed to conversion temperature, at the same time minimizing utilization of external fuels to heat the feedstock. Thus, where the nature of the feedstock permits, it may be fed at ambient temperature. Heavier stocks may be fed at preheat temperatures of up to about 600°F, typically about 200°F to about 500°F, but higher preheat temperatures are not necessarily excluded.
  • the catalyst fed to the reactor may vary widely in temperature, for exmple from about 1100° to about 1600°F, more preferably about 1200° to about 1500°F and most preferably about 1300° to about 1400°F, with about 1325° to about 1375°F being considered optimum at present.
  • the conversion of the carbo- metallic oil to lower molecular weight products may be conducted at a temperature of about 900° to about 1400°F, measured at the reaction chamber outlet.
  • the reaction temperature as measured at said outlet is more preferably maintained in the range of about 965° to about 1300°F, still more preferably about 975° to about 1200°F, and most preferably about 980° to about 1150°F.
  • all of the feed may or may not vaporize in the riser.
  • the pressure in the reactor may, as indicated above, range from about 10 to about 50 psia, preferred and more preferred pressure ranges are about 15 to about 35 and about 20 to about 35.
  • the partial (or total) pressure of the feed may be in the range of about 3 to about 30, more preferably about 7 to about 25 and most preferably about 10 to about 17 psia.
  • the feed partial pressure may be controlled or suppressed by the introduction of gaseous (including vaporous) materials into the reactor, such as for instance the steam, water and other additional materials described above.
  • the process has for example been operated with the ratio of feed partial pressure relative to total oressure in the riser in the range of about 0.2 to about 0.8, more typically about 0.3 to about 0.7 and still more typically about 0.4 to about 0.6, with the ratio of added gaseous material (which may include recycled gases and/or steam resulting from introduction of H 2 O to the riser in the form of steam and/or liquid water) relative to total pressure in the riser correspondingly ranging from about 0.8 to about 0.2, more typically about 0.7 to about 0.3 and still more typically about 0.6 to about 0.4.
  • the ratio of feed partial pressure relative to total oressure in the riser in the range of about 0.2 to about 0.8, more typically about 0.3 to about 0.7 and still more typically about 0.4 to about 0.6
  • added gaseous material which may include recycled gases and/or steam resulting from introduction of H 2 O to the riser in the form of steam and/or liquid water
  • the ratio of the partial pressure of the added gaseous material relative to the partial pressure of the feed has been in the range of about 0.25 to about 4.0, more typically about 0.4 to about 2.3 and still more typically about 0.7 to about 1.7.
  • the residence time of feed and product vapors in the riser may be in the range of about 0.5 to about 10 seconds, as described above, preferred and more preferred values are about 0.5 to about 6 and about 1 to about 4 seconds, with about 1.5 to about 3.0 seconds currently being considered about optimum.
  • the process has been operated with a riser vapor residence time of about 2.5 seconds or less by introduction of copious amounts of gaseous materials into the riser, such amounts being sufficient to provide for example a partial pressure ratio of added gaseous materials relative to hydrocarbon feed of about 0.8 or more.
  • the process has been operated with said residence time being about 2 seconds or less, with the aforesaid ratio being in the range of about 1 to about 2.
  • the catalyst riser residence time may or may not be the same as that of the vapors.
  • the ratio of average catalyst reactor residence time versus vapor reactor residence time i.e., slippage, may be in the range of about 1 to about 5, more preferably about 1 to about 4 and most preferably about 1 to about 3, with about 1 to about 2 currently being considered optimum.
  • slippage there will usually be a small amount of slippage, e.g., at least about 1.05 or 1.2. In an operating unit there may for example be a slippage of about 1.1 at the bottom of the riser and about 1.05 at the top.
  • the vapor riser residence time and vapor catalyst contact time are substantially the same for at least about 80%, more preferably at least about 90% and most preferably at least about 95% by volume of the tocal feed and product vapors passing through the riser.
  • the combination of catalyst to oil ratio, temperatures, pressures and residence times should be such as to effect a substantial conversion of the carbo-metallic oil feedstock. It is an advantage of the process that very high levels of conversion can be attained in a single pass; for example the conversion may be in excess of 50% and may range to about 90% or higher. Preferably, the aforementioned conditions are maintained at levels sufficient to maintain conversion levels in the range of about 60 to about 90% and more preferably about 70 to about 85%. The foregoing conversion levels are calculated by subtracting from 100% the percentage obtained by dividing the liquid volume of fresh feed into 100 times the volume of liquid product boiling at and above 430 ⁇ F (tbp, standard atmospheric pressure).
  • coke laydown may be in excess of about 0.3, more commonly in excess of about 0.5 and very frequently in excess of about 1% of coke by weight, based on the weight of moisture free regenerated catalyst. Such coke laydown may range as high as about 2%, or about 3%, or even higher.
  • the present process includes stripping of spent catalyst after disengagement of the catalyst from product vapors.
  • Stripping agents and conditions for stripping spent catalyst may require somewhat more severe conditions than are commonly employed. This may result, for example, from the use of a carbo- metallic oil having constituents which do not volatilize under the conditions prevailing in the reactor, which constituents deposit themselves at least in part on the catalyst. Such adsorbed, unvaporized material can be troublesome fromat least two standpoints.
  • the gases (including vapors) used to strip the catalyst can gain admission to a catalyst disengagement or collection chamber connected to the downstream end of the riser, and if there is an accumulation of catalyst in such chamber, vaporization of these unvaporized hydrocarbons in the stripper can be followed by adsorption on the bed of catalyst in the chamber. More particularly, as the catalyst in the stripper is stripped of interstitial feed and product material, the resultant feed and product material vapors pass through the bed of catalyst accumulated in the catalyst collection and/or disengagement chamber and may deposit coke and/or condensed material on the catalyst in said bed.
  • the condensed products can not be removed by normal stripping operations, which combined with the coke can tend to increase regeneration temperatures and/or demand greater regeneration capacity.
  • Substantial conversion of carbo-metallic oils to lighter products in accordance with the invention tends to produce sufficiently large coke yields and coke laydown on catalyst to require some care in catalyst regeneration.
  • this weight percentage is about 0.1% or less and more preferably about 0.05% or less, especially with zeolite catalysts.
  • the amounts of coke which must therefore be burned off of the catalysts when processing carbo-metallic oils are usually substantially greater than would be the case when cracking VGO.
  • coke when used to describe the present invention should be understood to include any residual unvaporized feed or cracking product, if any such material is present on the catalyst after stripping.
  • Regeneration of catalyst burning away of coke deposited on the catalyst during the conversion of the feed, may be performed at any suitable temperature in the range of about 1100° to about 1600°F, measured at the regenerator catalyst outlet. This temperature is preferably in the range of about 1200° to about 1500°F, more preferably about 1275° to about 1425°F and optimally about 1325°F to about 1375°F.
  • the process has been operated, for example, with a fluidized regenerator with the temperature of the catalyst dense phase in the range of about 1300° to about 1400°F.
  • Regeneration is preferably conducted while maintaining the catalyst in one or more fluidized beds in one or more flui dization chambers.
  • Such fluidized bed operations are characterized, for instance, by one or more fluidized dense beds of ebulliating particles having a bed density of, for example, about 25 to about 50 pounds per cubic foot.
  • Fluidization is maintained by passing gases, including combustion supporting gases, through the bed at a sufficient velocity to maintain the particles in a fluidized state but at a velocity which is sufficiently small to prevent substantial entrainment of particles in the gases.
  • the lineal velocity of the fluidizing gases may be in the range of about 0.2 to about 4 feet per second and preferably about 0.2 to about 3 feet per second.
  • the average total residence time of the particles in the one or more beds is substantial, ranging for example from about 5 to about 30, more preferably about 5 to about 20 and still more preferably about 5 to about 10 minutes. From the foregoing, it may be readily seen that the fluidized bed regeneration of the present invention is readily distinguishable from the short contact, low-density entrainment type regeneration which has been practiced in some FCC operations.
  • excess oxygen is meant an amount in excess of the stoichiometric requirement for burning all of the hydrogen to water, all of the carbon to carbon dioxide and all of the other combustible components, if any, which are present in the above- mentioned selected portion of the coke immediately prior to regeneration, to their highest stable state of oxidation under the regenerator conditions.
  • the gaseous products of combustion conducted in the presence of excess oxygen will normally include an appreciable amount of free oxygen.
  • free oxygen unless removed from the by-product gases or converted to some other form by a means or process other than regeneration, will normally manifest itself as free oxygen in the flue gas from the regenerator unit.
  • the amount of free oxygen will normally be not merely appreciable but substantial, i.e., there will be a concentration of at least about 2 mole percent of free oxygen in the total regeneration flue gas recovered from the entire, completed regeneration operation. While such technique is effective in attaining the desired low levels of carbon on regenerated catalyst, is has its limitations and difficulties as will become aooarent from Heat released by combustion of coke in the regenerator is absorbed by the catalyst and can be readily retained thereby until the regenerated catalyst is brought into contact with fresh feed.
  • the amount of regenerator heat which is transmitted to fresh feed by way of recycling regenerated catalyst can substantially exceed the level of heat input which is appropriate in the riser for heating and vaporizing the feed and other materials, for supplying the endothermic heat of reaction for cracking, for making up the heat losses of the unit and so forth.
  • the amount of regenerator heat transmitted to fresh feed may be controlled, or restricted where necessary, within certain approximate ranges.
  • the amount of heat so transmitted may for example be in the range of about 500 to about 1200, more particularly about 600 to about 900, and more particularly about 650 to about 850 BTUs per pound of fresh feed.
  • the aforesaid ranges refer to the combined heat, in BTUs per pound of fresh feed, which is transmitted by the catalyst to the feed and reaction products (between the contacting of feed with the catalyst and the separation of product from catalyst) for supplying the heat of reaction (e.g., for cracking) and the difference in enthalpy between the products and the fresh feed.
  • the heat made available in the reactor by the adsorption of coke on the catalyst nor the heat consumed by heating, vaporizing or reacting recycle streams and such added materials as water, steam naphtha and other hydrogen donors, flue gases and inert gases, or by radiation and other losses.
  • One or a combination of techniques may be utilized in this invention for controlling or restricting the amount of regeneration heat transmitted via catalyst to fresh feed.
  • a combustion modifier to the cracking catalyst in order to reduce the temperature of combustion of coke.
  • the ratio of CO 3 CO 3 /CO is generally greater than 5.
  • the combustion of coke to CO produces only 40% of the heat as compared to the combustion of CO to CO 2 .
  • the amount of heat released in the regenerator can be favorably controlled.
  • Such a combustion modifier is halogen, in particular chlorine, which was discussed above-
  • heat exchange means including for example, heat exchangers (e.g., steam coils) built into the regenerator itself, whereby one may extract heat from the catalyst during regeneration.
  • Heat exchangers can be built into catalyst transfer lines, such as for instance the catalyst return line from the regenerator to the reactor, whereby heat may be removed from the catalyst after it is regenerated.
  • the amount of heat imparted to the catalyst in the regenerator may be restricted by reducing the amount of insulation on the regenerator to permit some heat loss to the surrounding atmosphere, especially if feeds of exceedingly high coking potential are planned for processing; in general, such loss of heat to the atmosphere is considered economically less desirable than certain of the other alternatives set forth herein.
  • One may also inject cooling fluids into portions of the regenerator other than those occupied by the dense bed, for example water and/or steam, whereby the amount of inert gas available in the regenerator for heat absorption and removal is increased.
  • Another suitable and preferred technique for controlling or restricting the heat transmitted to fresh feed via recycled regenerated catalyst involves maintaining a specified ratio between the carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide formed in the regenerator while such gases are in heat exchange contact or relationship with catalyst undergoing regeneration.
  • all or a major portion by weight of the coke present on the catalyst immediately prior to regeneration is removed in at least one combustion zone in which the aforesaid ratio is controlled as described below. More particularly, at least the major portion more preferably at least about 65% and more preferably at least about 80% by weight of the coke on the catalyst is removed in a combustion zone in which the molar ratio of CO 2 to CO is maintained at a level substantially below 5, e.g., about 4 or less. Looking at the CO 2 /CO relationship from the inverse standpoint, it is preferred that the CO/CO 2 molar ratio should be at least about 0.25 and preferably at least about 0.3 and still more preferably about 1 or more or even 1.5 or more.
  • the sub-process of regeneration may be carried out to the above-mentioned low levels of carbon on regenerated catalyst with a deficiency of oxygen; more specifically, the total oxygen supplied to the one or more stages of regeneration can be and preferably is less than the stoichiometric amount which would be required to burn all hydrogen in the coke to H 2 O and to burn all carbon in the coke to CO 2 . If the coke includes other combustibles, the aforementioned stoichiometric amount can be adjusted to include the amount of oxygen required to burn them.
  • Still another particularly preferred technique for controlling or restricting t ⁇ ie regeneration heat imparted to fresh feed via recycled catalyst involves the diversion of a portion of the heat borne by recycled catalyst to added materials introduced into the reactor, such as the water, steam, naphtha, other hydrogen donors, flue gases, inert gases, and other gaseous or vaporizable materials which may be introduced into the reactor.
  • the amount of oxidizing gas that enters said first zone and the concentration of oxygen or oxygen bearing gas therein are sufficient for only partially effecting the desired conversion of coke on the catalyst to carbon oxide gases.
  • the partially regenerated catalyst is then removed from the first regeneration zone and is conveyed to a second regeneration zone.
  • Oxidizing gas is introduced into the second regeneration zone to provide a higher concentration of oxygen or oxygen-containing gas than in the first zone, to complete the removal of carbon to the desired level.
  • the regenerated catalyst may then be removed from the second zone and recycled to the reactor for contact with fresh feed.
  • An example of such multi-stage regeneration process is described in U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 969,602 of George D. Myers, et al., filed December 14, 1978, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference. Another example may be found in U.S. Patent 2,938,739.
  • Multi-stage regeneration offers the possibility of combining oxygen deficient regeneration with the control of the CO:CO 2 molar ratio.
  • about 50% or more, more preferably about 65% to about 95%, and more preferably about 80% to about 95% by weight of the coke on the catalyst immediately prior to regeneration may be removed in one or more stages of regeneration in which the molar ratio of CO:CO 2 is controlled in the manner described above.
  • the last 5% or more, or 10% or more by weight of the coke originally present, up to the entire amount of coke remaining after the preceding stage or stages, can be removed in a subsequent stage of regeneration in which more oxygen is present.
  • multi-stage regeneration is particularly beneficial in that it provides another convenient technique for restricting regeneration heat transmitted to fresh feed via regenerated catalyst and/or reducing the potential for thermal deactivation, while simultaneously affording an opportunity to reduce the carbon level on regenerated catalyst to those very low percentages (e.g., about 0.1% or less) which particularly enhance catalyst activity.
  • a two-stage regeneration process may be carried out with the first stage burning about 80% of the coke at a bed temperature of about 1300°F to produce CO and CO 2 in a molar ratio of CO/CO 2 of about 1 and the second stage burning about 20% of the coke at a bed temperature of about 1350°F to produce substantially all CO 2 mixed with free oxygen.
  • the regeneration conditions are substan tially more severe in the first zone than in the second zone
  • a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention is two-stage fluidized regeneration at a maximum temperature of about 1400°F with a reduced temperature of at least about 10 or 20°F in the dense phase of the first stage as compared to the dense phase of the second stage, and with reduction of carbon on catalyst to about 0.05% or less or even about 0.025% or less by weight in the second zone.
  • catalyst can readily be regenerated to carbon levels as low as 0.01% by this technique, even though the carbon on catalyst prior to regeneration is as much as about 1%.
  • the catalyst discharged from the regenerator may be stripped with appropriate stripping gases to remove oxygen containing gases.
  • stripping may for instance be conducted at relatively high temperatures, for example about 1350° to about 1370°F, using steam, nitrogen or other inert gas as the stripping gas(es).
  • nitrogen and other inert gases is beneficial from the standpoint of avoiding a tendency toward hydrothermal catalyst deactivation which may result from the use of steam.
  • a unit design in which system components and residence times are selected to reduce the ratio of catalvst reactor residence time relative to catalyst regenerator residence time will tend to reduce the ratio of the times during which the catalyst is respectively under reduction conditions and oxidation conditions. This too can assist in maintaining desired levels of selectivity.
  • the metals content of the catalyst is being managed successfully may be observed by monitoring the total hydrogen plus methane produced in the reactor and/or the ratio of hydrogen to methane thus produced.
  • the hydrogen to methane mole ratio should be less than about 1 and preferably about 0.6 or less, with about 0.4 or less being considered about optimum.
  • the hydrogen to methane ratio may range from about 0.5 to about 1.5 and average about 0.8 to about 1.
  • Careful carbon management can improve both selectivity (the ability to maximize production of valuable products), and heat productivity.
  • the techniques of metals control described above are also of assistance in carbon management.
  • the usefulness of water addition in respect to carbon management has already been spelled out in considerable detail in that part of the specification which relates to added materials for introduction into the reaction zone.
  • those techniques which improve dispersion of the feed in the reaction zone should also prove helpful, these include for instance the use of fogging or misting devices to assist in dispersing the feed.
  • Catalyst to oil ratio is also a factor in heat management.
  • the reactor temperature may be controlled in the practice of the present invention by respectively increasing or decreasing the flow of hot regenerated catalyst to the reactor in response to decreases and increases in reactor temperature, typically the outlet temperature in the case of a riser type reactor.
  • the automatic controller for catalyst introduction is set to maintain an excessive catalyst to oil ratio, one can expect unnecessarily large rates of carbon production and heat release, relative to the weight of fresh feed charged to the reaction zone.
  • Relatively high reactor temperatures are also beneficial from the standpoint of carbon management. Such higher temperatures foster more complete vaporization of feed and disengagement of product from catalyst.
  • Carbon management can also be facilitated by suitable restriction of the total pressure in the reactor and the partial pressure of the feed.
  • relatively small decreases in the aforementioned pressures can substantially reduce coke production. This may be due to the fact that restricting total pressure tends to enhance vaporization of high boiling components of the feed, encourage cracking and facilitate disengagement of both unconverted feed and higher boiling cracked products from the catalyst. It may be of assistance in this regard to restrict the pressure drop of equipment downstream of and in communication with the reactor. But if it is desired or necessary to operate the system at higher total pressure, such as for instance because of operating limitations (e.g., pressure drop in downstream equipment) the above described benefits may be obtained by restricting the feed partial pressure. Suitable ranges for total reactor pressure and feed partial pressure have been set forth above, and in general it is desirable to attempt to minimize the pressure within these ranges.
  • a particularly desirable mode of operation from the standpoint of carbon management is to operate the process in the vented riser using a hydrogen donor if necessary, while maintaining the feed partial pressure and total reactor pressure as low as possible, and incorporating relatively large amounts of water, steam and if desired, other diluents, which provide the numerous benefits discussed in greater detail above.
  • a hydrogen donor if necessary, while maintaining the feed partial pressure and total reactor pressure as low as possible, and incorporating relatively large amounts of water, steam and if desired, other diluents, which provide the numerous benefits discussed in greater detail above.
  • liquid water, steam, hydrogen donors, hydrogen and other gaseous or vaporizable materials are fed to the reaction zone, the feeding of these materials provides an opportunity for eizercising additional control over catalyst to oil ratio.
  • the practice of increasing or decreasing the catalyst to oil ratio for a given amount of decrease or increase in reactor temperature may be reduced or eliminated by substituting either appropriate reduction or increase in the charging ratios of the water, steam and other gaseous or vaporizable material, or an appropriate reduction or increase in the ratio of water to steam and/or other gaseous materials introduced into the reaction zone.
  • Heat management includes measures taken to control the amount of heat released in various parts of the process and/or for dealing successfully with such heat as may be released. Unlike conventional FCC practic using VGO, wherein it is usually a problem to generate sufficient heat during regenera tion to heat balance the reactor, the processing of carbo- metallic oils generally produces so much heat as to require careful management thereof.
  • Heat management can be facilitated by various techniques associated with the materials introduced into the reactor.
  • heat absorption by feed can be maximized by minimum preheating of feed, it being necessary only that the feed temperature be high enough so that it is sufficiently fluid for successful pumping and dispersion in the reactor.
  • the catalyst is maintained in a highly active state with the suppression of coking (metals control), so as to achieve higher conversion, the resultant higher conversion and greater selectivity can increase the heat absorption of the reaction.
  • higher reactor temperatures promote catalyst conversion activity in the face of more refractory and higher boiling constituents with high coking potentials. While the rate of catalyst deactivation may thus be increased, the higher temperature of operation tends to offset this loss in activity.
  • Example A carbo-metallic feed is introduced into the lower end of a vented riser reactor as shown in Fig. 3.
  • the feed is mixed with steam, water, and a zeolite catalyst in a catalyst to oil ratio of about 11 to 1 by weight.
  • the catalyst temperature is about 1275°F.
  • the carbo-metallic feed has a heavy metal content of about 5 parts per million nickel equivalents and a Conradson carbon content of about 7 percent. About 85 percent of the feed boils above 650°F and about 20 percent of the feed boils above 1025°F.
  • the water and steam are injected into the riser at a rate of about 100 and 240 pounds per hour respectively.
  • the temperature within the reactor is about 1000°F and the pressure is about 27 psia.
  • the partial pressures of feed and steam are about 11 psia and 16 psia respectively.
  • the catalyst containing about one percent coke and about 0.5 percent sorbed liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon is passed into a steam stripper where it is contacted with steam at a temperature of about 1000°F to remove the interstitial trapped gaseous hydrocarbons between the catalyst particles.
  • the steam-stripped catalyst is introduced into the first zone of a two-zone hot combustion gas stripper as shown in Fig. 3, where it is contacted with combustion gases from the first stage of a two-stage regenerator.
  • the gases comprising about 79 percent nitrogen, about 7 percent CO and about 14 percent CO 2 at a temperature of about 1300°F, are passed into the first combustion gas stripping zone at a rate of about 100 pounds per hour.
  • the gaseous products from the first hot combustion gas stripping zone comprise nitrogen, CO, CO 2 and hydrocarbons.
  • the catalyst containing about one percent coke and about 0.2 percent sorbed hydrocarbons, is introduced into the second zone of the combustion gas stripper where it is contacted with hot combustion gases from the second stage of the regenerator. These gases, comprising about 79 percent nitrogen, about 20 percent CO 2 and about 1 percent O 2 at a temperature of about 1375°F are passed into the second stripping zone at a rate of about 100 pounds per hour.
  • the gaseous products from the second hot combustion gas stripping zone comprise essentially nitrogen, CO 2 and hydrocarbons.
  • the stripped catalyst now containing about 0.9 percent coke and about 0.1 percent of residual sorbed hydrocarbons is introduced into the upper zone of the regenerator as shown in Fig. 3 where it is fluidized and partially regenerated with an air-CO 2 mixture introduced from the lower zone of the regenerator. Partially regenerated catalyst is introduced into the lower zone where it is fluidized and regenerated with air.
  • the regenerated catalyst, containing about 0.03 percent coke is recycled to the riser reactor.

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Procede de conversion economique d'huiles carbo-metalliques en produits plus legers. Les huiles carbo-metalliques contiennent un materiau ayant un point d'ebullition superieur a 650 F qui est caracterise par un residu de pyrolyse carbone d'au moins environ 1 et une teneur en metaux lourds d'au moins environ 4 parties par million d'equivalents nickel. Ce procede comprend l'ecoulement de l'huile carbo-metallique avec le catalyseur de craquage particulaire au travers d'un reacteur du type a ecoulement progressif (2) ayant une chambre de reaction allongee laquelle est au moins en partie verticale ou inclinee, pendant une duree predeterminee de maintien a la vapeur dans la colonne montante comprise entre 0,5 et 10 secondes environ, a une temperature comprise entre 900 et 1400 F environ et sous une pression absolue d'environ 10 a environ 50 livres par pouce carre, suffisante pour provoquer une conversion par passe de l'ordre de 50% a 90% environ tout en produisant du coke en quantites de 6 a 14% environ en poids calculees sur le produit d'alimentation frais, et le depot du coke sur le catalyseur en quantites de l'ordre de 0,3 a 3% environ en poids. Le catalyseur use charge de coke provenant du courant d'hydrocarbures forme par l'alimentation et les produits de craquage resultant vaporises est separe, les hydrocarbures ayant subit une sorption sont entraines (8) a partir des particules du catalyseur en les mettant en contact dans un ou plusieurs lits fluidises avec des gaz de combustion chauds. Le catalyseur entraine est regenere dans un ou plusieurs lits de regeneration (27) dans une ou plusieurs zones de regeneration (21) en brulant le coke sur le catalyseur use avec de l'oxygene. Les particules du catalyseur sont retenues dans la ou les zones de regeneration en contact avec le gaz de maintien de la combustion pendant un temps de maintien total moyen dans cette ou ces zones de 5 a 30 minutes environ pour reduire le niveau de carbone sur le catalyseur jusqu'a environ 0,25% en poids ou moins. Le catalyseur regenere est
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