Article: Petroleum crude slate effect on H-Oil performance Journal: International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology (IJOGCT) 2021 Vol.28 No.3 pp.259 - 286 Abstract: Sixteen petroleum crudes and an imported atmospheric residue originating from Russia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Italy, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the USA have been processed in the LUKOIL Neftohim Burgas (LNB) refinery, and their effect on the ebullated bed vacuum residue H-Oil hydrocracking (EBVRHC) performance has been evaluated. The vacuum residue conversion in the LNB H-Oil EBVRHC varied between 55% and 82% depending on the crude blend processed in the LNB refinery. It has been established that among all vacuum residue SARA fractions during EBVRHC, the resins have the highest conversion, followed by the naphtheno-aromatics while the saturates show the lowest conversion. Depending on the petroleum crude origin the behaviour of the most problematic VR asphaltene fraction has been found to be different suggesting distinct propensity of the asphaltenes from the different petroleum crudes to participate in radical recombination reactions leading to the formation of additional amounts of core-condensed asphaltenes. [Received: July 6, 2020; Accepted: August 19, 2020] Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Petroleum crude slate effect on H-Oil performance

Authors: Dicho Stratiev; Ivelina Shishkova; Ilian Kolev; Dobromir Yordanov; Vesislava Toteva

Addresses: LUKOIL Neftohim Burgas, AD, Burgas, 8104, Bulgaria ' LUKOIL Neftohim Burgas, AD, Burgas, 8104, Bulgaria ' LUKOIL Neftohim Burgas, AD, Burgas, 8104, Bulgaria ' University 'Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov', Burgas 8010, Str. 'Prof. Yakimov', Nr. 1, Bulgaria ' University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, 8 'Kl Ohridski' Blvd., 1756 Sofia, Bulgaria

Abstract: Sixteen petroleum crudes and an imported atmospheric residue originating from Russia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Italy, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the USA have been processed in the LUKOIL Neftohim Burgas (LNB) refinery, and their effect on the ebullated bed vacuum residue H-Oil hydrocracking (EBVRHC) performance has been evaluated. The vacuum residue conversion in the LNB H-Oil EBVRHC varied between 55% and 82% depending on the crude blend processed in the LNB refinery. It has been established that among all vacuum residue SARA fractions during EBVRHC, the resins have the highest conversion, followed by the naphtheno-aromatics while the saturates show the lowest conversion. Depending on the petroleum crude origin the behaviour of the most problematic VR asphaltene fraction has been found to be different suggesting distinct propensity of the asphaltenes from the different petroleum crudes to participate in radical recombination reactions leading to the formation of additional amounts of core-condensed asphaltenes. [Received: July 6, 2020; Accepted: August 19, 2020]

Keywords: petroleum crude; hydrocracking; vacuum residue; conversion; sedimentation; kinetics; saturates; aromatics; resins; asphaltenes.

DOI: 10.1504/IJOGCT.2021.118646

International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology, 2021 Vol.28 No.3, pp.259 - 286

Received: 06 Jul 2020
Accepted: 19 Aug 2020
Published online: 30 Oct 2021 *

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