Abstract:
Described are compositions including a reaction product of an amino alcohol and an aldehyde and a reaction product of a monohydric or polyhydric alcohol, an aldehyde and a nitrogen-containing compound. In addition, processes for removing sulfur compounds from process streams using such compositions are described, as well as such processes in which the process stream is contacted independently with a reaction product of an amino alcohol and an aldehyde and a reaction product of a monohydric or polyhydric alcohol, an aldehyde and a nitrogen-containing compound. Further described is the use of such compositions to remove sulfur compounds from process streams and the use of a reaction product of an amino alcohol and an aldehyde and a reaction product of a monohydric or polyhydric alcohol, an aldehyde and a nitrogen-containing compound to remove sulfur compounds from process streams.
Abstract:
A process for creating higher quality and lower quality base oils from used lubricating oils and crude oils, wherein the higher quality base oils may be either Group III or Group II and the lower quality base oils may be either Group II or Group I. Vacuum gas oils produced from used lubricating oils and from crude oils are processed via two or more process steps, including solvent extraction, solvent or catalytic or iso dewaxing, and hydrotreating. Such process enables efficient conversion and operation of refineries formerly capable only of making Group I base oils, even as their ability to make heavier base oils, waxes, and bright stocks is preserved, substantially to the same extent as such products had been made prior to undertaking the conversion.
Abstract:
The present technology provides a process that includes heating a first mixture of elemental sulfur and particles comprising an alkali metal sulfide in a liquid hydrocarbon to a temperature of at least 150° C., to provide a sulfur-treated mixture comprising agglomerated particles; and separating the agglomerated particles from the sulfur-treated mixture to provide a desulfurized liquid hydrocarbon and separated solids. This process may be used as part of a suite of processes for desulfurizing liquid hydrocarbons contaminated with organosulfur compounds and other heteroatom-based contaminants. The present technology further provides processes for converting carbon-rich solids (e.g., petroleum coke) into fuels.
Abstract:
Ionic liquids of the general formula C+A− where C+ represents an organic cation, specifically, but not limited to the imidazolium, pyridinium, isoquinolinium, ammonium types, which have aliphatic and aromatic substituents, while A− represents a carboxylate, aromatic and aliphatic anion. The ionic liquids are synthesized under conventional heating or microwave irradiation This invention is also related to the application of ionic liquids to remove sulfur compounds of naphthas through a liquid-liquid extraction and the recovery and reuse of ionic liquids by the application of heat, reduced pressure and washing with solvents.
Abstract:
The use of a composition including a transition metal salt and at least one water-soluble aldehyde or water-soluble aldehyde precursor scavenges H2S that is present in aqueous fluids (e.g. produced water liquid streams), natural gas and in oil and mixtures thereof (e.g. mixed production streams that contain all three phases) better than either component when used alone. The resulting scavenger combination significantly increases the reaction rate and the overall scavenging efficiency, i.e. capacity over the case where each component is used alone, in the same total amount. Non-limiting examples of the metal salt include zinc or iron carboxylates, and a non-limiting example of a water-soluble aldehyde or water-soluble aldehyde precursor is ethylene glycol hemiformal.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for recovering components from a hydrocarbon feedstock is provided. The method includes the steps of (a) supplying a hydrocarbon feedstock to an oxidation reactor, wherein the hydrocarbon feedstock is oxidized in the presence of a catalyst under conditions sufficient to selectively oxidize sulfur compounds and nitrogen compounds present in the hydrocarbon feedstock; (b) separating the hydrocarbons, the oxidized sulfur compounds, and the oxidized nitrogen compounds by solvent extraction; (c) collecting a residue stream that includes the oxidized sulfur compounds and the oxidized nitrogen compounds; and (d) supplying the residue stream to a fluid catalytic cracking unit.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for upgrading a hydrocarbon feedstock is provided. The method includes the steps of (a) supplying a hydrocarbon feedstock to an oxidation reactor, wherein the hydrocarbon feedstock is oxidized in the presence of a catalyst under conditions sufficient to selectively oxidize sulfur compounds present in the hydrocarbon feedstock; (c) separating the hydrocarbons and the oxidized sulfur compounds by solvent extraction; (d) collecting a residue stream that includes the oxidized sulfur compounds; and (e) supplying the residue stream to a gasifier to produce a syngas stream and a hydrogen sulfide stream.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the chemical or petroleum-processing industry and can be used in the production of petroleum plasticizers for synthetic rubber and tyres. In the method for producing non-carcinogenic aromatic process oil, containing a PCA extract of less than 3.0% according to the IP-346 method, said method comprising purifying the oil fractions of petroleum with selective solvents and separating the extract, additionally processing the extract with a polar solvent and producing a raffinate as the end product, the polar solvent used is a mixture of dimethylsulphoxide and Nmethylpyrrolidone, which is used for preliminary processing of the extract, wherein, after the preliminary processing, the mixture of extract and polar solvent is filtered, divided and the light phase is sent to the additional processing of the extract with the polar solvent, and the heavy phase is sent to a polar solvent regeneration stage. The ratio of dimethylsulphoxide to N-methylpyrrolidone in the mixture is within the range of 1:0.1-0.5. The ratio of polar solvent to extract in the additional processing stage is within the range of 1.5-2.5:1. The ratio of polar solvent to extract in the preliminary processing stage is within the range of 0.1-0.3:1. The technical result consists in increasing the efficiency of the process by preventing the formation of an intermediate layer in the extractor column, by reducing the ratio of solvent:extract, and, as a consequence, by increasing the productivity of the plant, simplifying the process of drying the solvent, and eliminating a paraffin-naphthene solvent, which substantially simplifies the regeneration of extractant from the raffinate solution.
Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for scavenging hydrogen sulfide and/or mercaptans from fluids. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of hydantoin compounds as a hydrogen sulfide or a mercaptan scavenger for hydrocarbon fluids, particularly for natural gas, crude oil, field oil, fuel oil, naphtha, gasoline, kerosene, diesel, slurry oil, gas oil, resid, refinery gas, coal gas, tar, asphalt, coke gas, ammonia synthesis gas, gas from a sulfurization plant, or industrial gas streams.
Abstract:
Process of extracting sulphur-containing compounds from a hydrocarbon cut of the gasoline or LPG type by liquid-liquid extraction with a soda solution employing a unit (2) for pretreatment of the feedstock to be treated located upstream of the unit (4) for extraction with soda, said pretreatment unit consisting of a first pretreatment reactor operating in batch mode followed by a second continuous reactor of the piston type operating in piston mode.