EP1009785A1

EP1009785A1 - Method for high-temperature short-time distillation of residual oils

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Publication number: EP1009785A1
Application number: EP98932111A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Hans-Jürgen WEISS; Jörg SCHMALFELD; Udo Zentner; Ingo Dreher; Willibald Serrano
Original assignee: Metallgesellschaft AG; MG Technologies AG
Current assignee: MG Technologies AG
Priority date: 1997-06-07
Filing date: 1998-06-03
Publication date: 2000-06-21
Anticipated expiration: 2018-06-03
Also published as: EP1009785B1; ES2172160T3; CA2293392A1; WO1998055564A1; JP2002503273A; DE59802658D1; CA2293392C; ATE212048T1; DE19724074C2; JP4111550B2; AU8212598A; US6413415B1; DE19724074A1

Abstract

High temperature flash distillation, for treating residual oils originating from crude oil refining, natural bitumen and/or tar sands, comprises feeding the oil to a mixer with granular hot coke, which serves as a thermal transfer medium. In mixing, 60-90% of the oil is vaporized. The non-vaporized fraction includes metal-containing asphaltenes. This fraction is further converted in the mixer, to oil vapor, gas and coke. Gases and vapor are withdrawn from the mixer, separately from the coke. The vapor phase is cooled and condensed to produce product oil. The gas itself is a further product. The coke is reheated and recycled to the mixer as the thermal transfer medium.

Description

Process for high-temperature short-time distillation of

Residue oils

description

The invention relates to a process for the high-temperature, short-term distillation of a liquid residual oil from the processing of petroleum, natural bitumen or oil sand, wherein the residue sol is mixed with granular, hot coke as heat transfer medium (heat transfer medium coke) in a mixing unit, 60 to 90 % By weight of the residual oil is evaporated by converting the non-evaporated portion of the residue sol, which contains the metal-containing asphaltenes, in a mixture with the heat transfer medium in the mixer to old steam, gas and coke and to separate gases and vapors from the mixer from the granular coke Cools, gases and vapors and produces a product oil as condensate and gas, and wherein coke withdrawn from the mixer is heated again and returned to the mixer as a heat transfer medium.

A similar process is from the journal "Petroleum and Coal-Natural Gas-Petrochemical / Hydrocarbon Technology" No. 42 (1989), Pages 235 to 237. It is described here that the special mixing mechanism with intermeshing, co-rotating screws makes it possible to remove and cool the gases and vapors from the hot environment of the mixing mechanism with a very short dwell time, thereby suppressing undesirable cracking processes in the gas phase.

The invention has for its object to further develop the known method and to improve the conditions of continuous operation. The aim is to maximize the yield of the product oil and to minimize its content of heavy metals (nickel, vanadium), Konradson carbon (CCR) and heteroatoms (S, N).

Starting from the process mentioned at the outset, the object is achieved in that the liquid residue is mixed with heat-transfer coke at 500 to 700 ° C. in a weight ratio of 1: 3 to 1:30 in the mixer, in that at least 80% by weight of the heat transfer medium -Kokses grain sizes in the range of 0.1 to 4 mm, that through the mixing process on the grains of the heat transfer coke, a liquid residue film is first formed, which is preferably in the mixer at an operating temperature as low as possible in the range of 450 to 600 ° C. 500 to 560 ° C predominantly evaporated (z. B. 60 to 90%) and that the remaining liquid residue film on the coke is converted to old steam, gas and coke during a dwell time of 6 to 60 seconds, that the withdrawn from the mixer Coke is dry, free-flowing and largely free of liquid components and that the gases and vapors formed after a residence time of 0.5 to 5 seconds which are withdrawn from the mixer. If the process according to the invention is compared with the conventional vacuum distillation, the invention raises the equivalent boiling point from approximately 560 ° C. to approximately 700 ° C., which considerably increases the distillate yield. At the same time, the non-distillable,

Pollutants (heavy metals, heteroatoms, CCR) asphaltenes converted to oil, gas and coke. In this case, these pollutants preferably remain in the coke.

The lowest possible operating temperature in the mixer, at which the coke drawn from the mixer is just still dry and free-flowing, results in the best yield and quality of the product oil.

The mixers in question for the process are e.g. B. screw mixer, rotary tube mixer, paddle mixer, ploughshare mixer or vibration mixer. Mixing units with intermeshing, co-rotating screws, which are known per se and are described in German patent 12 52 623 and in the corresponding US patent 3 308 219 and also in German patent 22 13 861, can also be used. Due to the interaction of the screws, deposits can only form to a limited extent on their surfaces and in the mixer housing.

A further embodiment of this method consists in passing the liquid residue sol during mixing with the hot heat transfer coke through a first mixing section and then through at least a second mixing section, the heat transfer coke and residue sol being fed to the mixer at the beginning of the first section feeds and in the first Section gases and vapors is released at temperatures in the range from 450 to 600 ° C., that hot heat transfer coke is again added to the mixture containing heat transfer coke and residual residue sol from the first section at the beginning of the second section and from the mixer in the first and / or second section of gases and vapors. Different temperatures in the range from 450 to 600 ° C can be set in the different mixture sections.

If you mix the residual oil with the hot heat transfer coke in at least two mixing sections, you can work in the important first section with the lowest possible temperatures, which means the removal of pollutants such as heavy metals (Ni, V), the heteroatoms (S, N) and the Konradson carbon (CCR) with the coke produced and suppressed undesirable cracking processes in the gas phase. These cracking processes increase the formation of C ₄ _ gases and decrease the quantity and quality of the C ₅₊ product oil.

The second mixing section begins where fresh heat transfer coke is again added from the outside into the coke mixture coming from the first section. The addition of coke increases the temperature in the second section, which also increases the temperature of the gases and vapors. An increase in the temperature of 5 to 50 ° C. is usually aimed for by adding heat transfer coke. This avoids the temperature falling below the dew point in the lines between the mixer and the condensation device. At the same time, the coking of the remaining non-volatile liquid residue components on the coke is accelerated at a higher temperature, whereby the Coke dries faster in the mixer and thereby loses its stickiness. This is a prerequisite for the flowability of the coke in the heat transfer circuit system. It is also possible to provide more than two mixture sections and to supply hot coke from the outside at the beginning of each section.

Typically, in several sections, 50 to 95% of the total heat transfer coke supplied to the mixer will be introduced into the first mixing section. At least 5% of the hot coke is added at the beginning of the second or each subsequent mixing section. If you work with only two mixing sections in the mixing unit, the hot heat transfer coke is usually fed to the first and second sections in a weight ratio of 20: 1 to 1: 1.

Furthermore, it is possible to supply a liquid residue sol which differs from the residue sol of the first section to the second or a subsequent mixing section. The residue sol supplied to the second section may e.g. B. treated at a higher temperature than the first residue sol. Such a second residue sol can also be thermally treated in a second, partly parallel mixer, which, for. B. works at a higher temperature.

It may also be advantageous to feed the liquid residue sol, preheated to temperatures in the range from 100 to 450 ° C., into the mixing unit. Preheating reduces the viscosity of the residual oil and the heat required for evaporation, which means that the non-evaporable part of the residual oil reaches the desired conversion temperature more quickly. Furthermore, it may be advantageous to introduce an oxygen-free gas or steam into the mixing unit in addition to the liquid residue sol in order to reduce the residence time of the gases and vapors formed in the mixing unit.

The inventive method achieves that about 80 to 95% of the heavy metals (Ni and V), about 50 to 70% of Konradson's carbon (CCR) and 30 to 70% of the heteroatoms (S and N) from the used Residue sol is removed with the coke produced and a C ₅₊ product oil is produced from the residue sol with a yield of 70 to 85% by weight. After separating the gasoline and possibly the kerosene and diesel fractions, this product oil is suitable for further catalytic processing.

Design options of the method are explained with the aid of the drawing, wherein mixing mechanisms with intermeshing screws rotating in the same direction are used. It shows:

1: a flow diagram of the method,

Fig. 2: a flow chart of the method with two

Mixing sections in the mixing plant, Fig. 3: a flow diagram of the process with two

Mixing units, Fig. 4: a horizontal section along the line IV-IV in Fig. 2 through the mixing unit in a schematic

Representation, FIG. 5: a horizontal section through a mixer with conically enlarged screws in a representation analogous to FIG. 4 and FIG. 6: a vertical section through a mixer with screws working in opposite directions in a representation analogous to FIG. 1.

As shown in Fig. 1, the mixer (1) through the line (3) 500 to 700 ° C hot heat transfer coke from the collection bunker (2) is supplied. At the same time, a residue sol is injected through line (4) at a temperature of preferably 100 to 450 ° C. The weight ratio of coke: residue sol is in the range from 3: 1 to 30: 1, a temperature of the mixture (conversion temperature) in the range from 450 to 600 ° C. being established in the mixing unit. At least 80% by weight of the heat transfer coke has grain sizes in the range from 0.1 to 4 mm, and the grain size d ₅₀ is in the range from 0.2 to 2 mm, as a result of which the coke is largely separated from the gases formed in the mixer and oil vapors at the mixer outlet.

In the present case, the mixer (1) has two intermeshing screws (8) and (9) which rotate in the same direction and which are shown schematically in FIG. 4. In another version, the mixing mechanism can also have three or more intermeshing, co-rotating screws, which can also be flared, see Fig. 5. Each screw is designed in the manner of a screw conveyor and provided with conveying surfaces (8a) and (9a) (Figs. 4 and 5). The coiled conveying surfaces (8a) and (9a) have different slopes at different points, as is shown in simplified form in FIGS. 4, 5 and 6. It is advisable to design the gradient of the conveying surfaces before the residual oil is fed into the mixing unit to be lower than in the reaction zone of the mixing unit, in order first to convey the coke axially into the reaction zone and then to increase it at a larger rate Mix the gradient of the conveying surfaces in the reaction zone intensively with the residue sol.

As shown in Fig. 1, the hot, oil-free, granular coke leaves the mixer (1) at the end of the mixer at a temperature of 450 to 600 ° C and falls through a channel (10) in a post-degassing bunker (11), the A strip gas (33) can be supplied in the lower part. Residual gases and vapors can be drawn out of the bunker (11) through the channel (10). Coke is withdrawn from the bunker (11) through line (12), and part of the coke is removed from the system through line (12a) or also through line (2a). The remaining coke passes through line (12) to the bottom of a pneumatic conveyor line (15), to which combustion air is fed through line (16) and, if necessary, fuel is supplied through line (17). Combustion gases convey the coke upwards in the conveyor section (15), with part of the coke and / or the supplied fuel being burned off at the same time. The coke heated in the conveyor section (15) reaches the collecting bunker (2), from which exhaust gas is removed through the line (18). The coke in the bunker (2) has temperatures in the range from 500 to 700 ° C and usually 550 to 650 ° C.

Gases and vapors leave the mixer (1) through the channel (22) and enter the condensation (23), in which the gases and vapors are rapidly cooled. Product oil and gas are drawn off separately through lines (35) and (34).

In Fig. 2, the mixer (1) has two mixing sections (la) and (lb). At the beginning of the first section (la), the mixer is led through the line (3) of hot coke from the collection bunker (2) too. At the same time, the first section (la) is fed through the line (4) residue sol. At the beginning of the second mixing section (lb) further hot coke is added through line (3a) and, if desired, a second residue sol through line (4a). The gases and vapors formed in the mixing sections (la) and (lb) are withdrawn together through the line (22) or (22a) from the mixing unit and fed to the condensation device (23).

In Fig. 3, two different residual oils are fed through lines (4) and (4a) into two different mixers (1) and (5) and converted there at different temperatures that are optimal for the respective residue. The mixer (1) of Fig. 6 is equipped with pairs of screws (25) and (26) which work in opposite directions, so that there are opposite transport directions (27) and (28). Heat transfer coke is added through lines (3) and (3a), and residual sol is supplied through lines (4) and (4a). The coke is drawn off centrally through the channel (10), and gases and vapors are drawn off through the line (22). Otherwise, as already explained together with FIG. 1, the method can be carried out.

For example:

In an arrangement corresponding to FIG. 1, 10 t per hour of a vacuum residue formed during the distillation of crude oil are injected into the mixer (1) at 250 ° C. and mixed with 100 t / h of heat transfer coke at 600 ° C. The vacuum residue contains 20% by weight of CCR, 740 mg / kg vanadium and 120 mg / kg nickel. A temperature of 540 ° C is set in the mixer, at which 8.2 t / h oil vapors and gas and 1.8 t / h fresher Coke are formed. The mixer has two intermeshing screws rotating in the same direction. The mixture of old steam and gas is withdrawn from the mixer and subjected to condensation. A separation into 7.2 t / h product oil (C ₅₊ ) with 8.6% by weight CCR, 83 mg / kg V and 11 mg / kg Ni and 1 t / h gas (C _4. The heat transfer medium -Coke and the freshly formed coke on its surface are largely removed from the mixing unit free of liquid components and thus dry and free-flowing.

Claims

claims

1. A process for the high-temperature short-term distillation of a liquid residual oil from the processing of petroleum, natural bitumen or oil sand, wherein the residue sol is mixed with granular, hot coke as heat transfer medium (heat transfer coke) in a mixing plant, 60 to 90% by weight. -% of the residue sol are evaporated, that one converts the non-evaporated part of the residual oil, which contains the metal-containing asphaltenes, in mixture with the heat transfer medium in the mixer to old steam, gas and coke, and gases and vapors are extracted from the mixer separately from the granular coke, gases and cools vapors and produces a product oil as condensate and gas, and wherein coke withdrawn from the mixer is heated again and returned to the mixer as heat transfer medium, characterized in that the liquid residue sol with 500 to 700 ° C hot heat transfer medium coke in a weight ratio from 1: 3 to 1: 30 mixes in the mixer that at least 80 wt .-% of the heat meter ger-coke grain sizes in the range of 0.1 to 4 mm, that the mixing process initially forms a liquid residue film on the grains of the heat transfer coke, which predominantly in the mixer at an operating temperature as low as possible in the range of 450 to 600 ° C. evaporated and that the remaining liquid residue film on the coke is converted to old steam, gas and coke during a dwell time of 6 to 60 seconds, that the coke withdrawn from the mixer is dry, free-flowing and largely free of liquid constituents and that the gases and Vapors are withdrawn from the mixer after a dwell time of 0.5 to 5 seconds.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that a mixer with intermeshing, co-rotating screws is used as the mixer.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the liquid residue sol during mixing with the hot heat transfer coke through a first mixing section and then passed through at least a second mixing section, wherein the mixer at the beginning of the first section hot heat transfer medium -Coke and residue sol and in the first section releases gases and vapors at temperatures in the range from 450 to 600 ° C., that hot cantilever coke is again added to the coke and residual residue sol-containing mixture from the first section at the beginning of the second section and out withdraws gases and vapors from the mixer in the first and / or second section.

4. The method according to claim 3, characterized in that 50 to 95% of the total heat feed coke fed to the mixer is introduced into the first section.

5. The method according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the second or a subsequent mixing section is fed a liquid residue sol which differs from the liquid residue sol of the first section.

6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that one or more liquid residual oils are subjected to high-temperature short-term distillation in several mixing units.

7. The method according to claim 1 or one of the following, characterized in that the gases and vapors withdrawn from the mixer carry at most 25% of the heavy metals nickel and vanadium, which are contained in the liquid residue sol introduced into the mixer.

8. The method according to claim 1 or one of the following, characterized in that one introduces the liquid residue sol at a temperature in the range of 100 to 450 ° C in the mixer.

9. The method according to claim 1 or one of the following, characterized in that an oxygen-free, gaseous or vaporous fluid is blown into the mixer.

10. The method according to claim 2 or one of the following, characterized in that one uses a mixer, the screws of which are conical.

11. The method according to claim 2 or one of the following, characterized in that the mixer contains at least 3 screws.

12. The method according to claim 2 or one of the following, characterized in that a mixer with screws in the opposite direction of transport is used and that the mixer hot heat transfer coke and liquid residue sol is given on both ends so that the mixture of coke and residue sol from Both ends are conveyed to the center and the coke is drawn off there.