EP0201364A1 - Verfahren zur Entasphaltierung von Asphalt enthaltenden Kohlenwasserstoffeinsätzen - Google Patents
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- the process which is the subject of the present invention applies to the treatment of residues of conventional crude oils, whether atmospheric residues or residues under vacuum, as well as to the treatment of heavy or extra heavy oils topped such as they can be obtained, for example, from the deposits of FAJA PE-TROLIFERA in VENEZUELA or from the deposits of ATHABASCA in CANADA.
- the method as claimed may also be advantageously used for the treatment of atmospheric or vacuum residues which result from another thermal or catalytic preliminary treatment such as visbreaking, hydrocoreduction, thermal treatment in the presence of a hydrogen donor solvent, various catalytic hydrotreatments with more or less extensive conversion of the charge treated.
- This separation consists in breaking the balance existing between the asphaltenes and the surrounding maltenic medium by adding a solvent which decreases the viscosity and especially the surface tension of the oily medium.
- the recommended solvents are generally paraffins or (and) light olefins with 3, 4, 5, 6, and (or) 7 carbon atoms. In fact, light paraffin plays an anti-solvent role with respect to asphaltenes and possibly with respect to resins.
- Asphaltenes and resins are rejected out of the oily medium in the form of a distinct phase and this all the better when the density and the surface tension of the solvent medium plus oil are lower. Consequently, the yield in "asphalt phase" and the quality of the deasphalted oil are linked for a given charge to the following parameters and variables: nature of the solvent, solvent content, temperature and pressure but also very strongly depend on the characteristics of the technology. used.
- the process which is the subject of the present invention therefore relates to deasphalting with hydrocarbon solvents comprising paraffinic or olefinic hydrocarbons having from 3 to 7 carbon atoms.
- hydrocarbon solvents comprising paraffinic or olefinic hydrocarbons having from 3 to 7 carbon atoms.
- the use of the hydrocarbon solvent is carried out in such a way that it makes it possible to obtain excellent yields of a very good quality oil with a minimum solvent content and that it makes it possible to design industrial extrapolation to units capable of processing annual capacities of around 2 to 4 million tonnes in a single line.
- a first object of the present invention is to carry out the deasphalting of a hydrocarbon feed containing asphaltenes, in particular of a residue or of a heavy oil, with a solvent having 3 to 7 carbon atoms so as to obtain a oil containing less than 0.05% of asphaltenes precipitated by heptane according to standard AFNOR NFT 60115.
- a second object of the invention is to selectively carry out the operation, that is to say to obtain concomitantly with the quality of the deasphalted oil a very good yield in this same oil and this by using the minimum of solvent, i.e. solvent-to-oil metric ratios, which may be as low as 3/1 to 4/1.
- a third object of the invention consists in carrying out the operation by separating the elementary physicochemical operations which make up the overall deasphalting operation: mixing-precipitation, decantation of the asphalt phase, washing-peptization of the asphalt phase.
- the process which is the subject of the invention allows the treatment of very large annual residues or heavy oils in a single decanter with respect for the quality and yield criteria which constitute the first and second subject of the invention.
- US Patent No. 2,081,473 presents the general concept of the deasphalting operation, consequently recommends the whole range of solvents generally cited, from methane to naphtha via propane, butane and light gasoline, but it does not specify neither the range of solvent / oil ratios recommended, nor a fortiori, the "de facto" dissociation of the operation into its elementary physico-chemical stages with application for each stage of a range of optimal operating conditions.
- US Patents No. 2587643 and 2882219 claim the addition of modifiers or additives either with solvent, namely organic carbonates for US Patent No. 2587643, or with charges, namely aromatics for US Patent No. 2882219.
- US Pat. Nos. 2002004, 2101308 and 3074882 they recommend carrying out the deasphalting operation in two or more successive stages but the sequences of stages envisaged are conceptually different from the staggering of stages of the present invention.
- US Patent No. 2002004 relates to a two-stage deasphalting process with intermediate distillation of the hydrocarbon phase rich in solvent from the first extraction zone. The effluent from the bottom of the distillation column is subjected to a second deasphalting step which in fact makes it possible to isolate resins.
- US Patent No. 2101 308 proposes a first step of deasphalting with light gasoline as solvent; the light oil-essence mixture from this first is treated with SO 2 , for a subsequent elimination of resins and aromatics.
- US Patent No. 3,074,882 operates a first butane precipitation.
- the butane is separated from the oil-butane mixture and the residual oil is treated with propane in two successive stages making it possible, on the one hand, to obtain resins and, on the other hand, a deasphalted and de-resinated oil.
- US Patent No. 3830_ 732 it recommends also a two-stage deasphalting consisting first of all in precipitating asphaltenes and resins with a first solvent in a volumetric .solvent / oil ratio of less than 4/1; in a second step, the asphaltic phase resulting from the first step is in turn repeptified by a solvent having at least one carbon atom more than the solvent recommended in the first step.
- This peptization of the asphalt phase makes it possible to redissolve the resins in the second solvent.
- a particular claim of this patent recommends that the operation in the first step is carried out at a temperature higher than that of the second step.
- the mixture between the charge to be deasphalted and the deasphalting solvent is produced upstream of the exchanger which raises the mixing temperature to the value required to achieve good precipitation and good decantation.
- the charge-solvent mixture passes through the tubes of the exchanger and not on the shell side.
- the residence time of the charge-solvent mixture in the precipitation mixing zone is between 5 sec and 5 min, preferably between 20 seconds and 120 seconds.
- the residence time of the mixture in the settling zone is between 4 and 20 minutes.
- the residence time of the oil-solvent mixture in the washing zone also remains between 4 and 20 minutes.
- the upward speeds of the oil-solvent mixtures both in the settling zone and in the washing zone will usefully remain less than 1 cm / s * and preferably less than 0.5 cm / s.
- the temperature applied in the washing zone will be 5 to 50 ° C lower than the temperature applied in the decanting zone.
- the oil-solvent mixture from the washing zone will be recycled in the decanter and even more advantageously upstream from the exchanger located at the entrance to the decantation zone.
- the solvent / asphalt phase ratio recommended in the washing zone will be between 0.5 and 8 and preferably between 1 and 5.
- the process can comprise two stages, each stage including the three basic stages of precipitation, decantation and washing.
- the temperature recommended in each stage of the first stage is preferably on average 10 to 40 ° C lower than the temperature of each corresponding stage of the second stage.
- the process which is the subject of the invention can use hydrocarbon solvents having from 3 to 7 carbon atoms, paraffinic, olefinic or cyclanic, alone, mixed together in various proportions or added with additives, for example , of the phenol, glycol type, alcohols from C1 to C6.
- the process of the present invention lends itself more advantageously to the use of paraffinic and / or olefinic solvents. having 4 to 6 carbon atoms.
- FIG. 1 presents the essential characteristics of the method corresponding to the invention.
- the load to be treated is introduced via line (1) to the mixing valve (2), where the solvent S1 and S "1 is introduced, originating from the recovery of the solvent (23) contained respectively in the solvent mixture.
- -Oil or in the asphaltic solvent-phase mixture lines 3 and 4).
- charge-solvent passes through an exchanger (5) where it is brought to the temperature required for the deasphalting operation considered; this temperature will vary between 100 and 200 ° C depending on the solvent considered (for example isobutane, butane, isopentane, pentane, light gasoline) depending on the type of feed to be treated (headless crude, atmospheric residue, vacuum residue), depending on the origin of the crude oil considered and according to the solvent / oil ratio used.
- the temperature at the outlet of the exchanger will be between 190 and 170 °. C and the pressure between 4 and 5 M Pascals insofar as the aim is to obtain a deasphalted oil containing less than 0.05% of asphalts according to the AFNOR NFT 60115 STANDARD. It is important to specify that according to one of the preferred characteristics of the process, the charge-solvent mixture passes through the tubes of the exchanger and not on the shell side, moreover, it is recommended to carry out a gravity flow in this exchanger, that is to say that the charge-solvent mixture runs up and down the heat exchanger tubes.
- the mixture brought to the required temperature is introduced via line (6) into the extractor flask (7) where the decantation takes place.
- the precipitation of the asphalt phase begins almost instantaneously at the level of the mixing valve and is followed in the exchanger (5) as the temperature rises.
- the residence time of the mixture between the mixing valve and the entry of the settling tank is between 5 seconds and 5 minutes and preferably between 20 seconds and 120 seconds.
- the turbulence in line 6 is usefully controlled to avoid the bursting into too small particles of the miscelles of asphaltic phase in suspension in the oil-solvent medium; in practice, it is recommended that at the outlet of the exchanger the number of REYNOLDS of the mixture be between 2.10 ° and 10 6 and preferably between 5.10 * and 5.10 5 . In this range of values, it can also be seen that the agglomeration of the micelles is initiated, making subsequent settling in the settling tank easier and faster.
- the asphaltic phase micelles are agglomerated and decanted.
- the volume and the geometry of the decanter are calculated so that the residence time of the solvent-oil mixture is between 4 and 20 minutes and preferably between 8 and 15 minutes and so that the rate of rise of the solvent-oil mixture is always less than 1 cm per second.
- the settling tank preferably operates isothermally, that is to say at a temperature substantially equal to the inlet temperature of the mixture, apart from the heat losses.
- the asphalt phase is collected in an underlying boot (8) where a level control causes it to be drawn off by the pump - (10) via the pipes (9 and 11) up to the column (12) where the washing takes place of the asphaltic phase and the selective repeptisation of a part of the resins by the solvent S'1 recycled from the fractionation unit (23) via the pipe (14).
- the exchanger (15) makes it possible to adjust the temperature of the washing solvent to the optimum temperature for the envisaged operation.
- the pressure applied in the washing tower is preferably very close to the upstream decanter pressure; the temperature of the solvent S'1 at the entrance to the tower will preferably be 5 to 50 ° C lower than the temperature of the asphalt phase introduced by line (11) at the top of the washing zone.
- the temperature gradient established between the inlets of the pipes (11) and (14) makes it possible to adjust for a given solvent flow rate S'1 and an asphaltic phase of a given nature the rate of repeptation of the resins, that is to say -dith allows to regulate the asphalt yield and the softening point of the asphalt.
- the solvent flow rate also affects the asphalt yield and its softening point. According to the process which is the subject of the invention, this flow rate is adjusted so that the volume ratio of solvent / asphalt phase is between 0.5 and 8 and preferably between 1 and 5.
- the column is advantageously operated so that the level of settling of the asphalt phase (17) is adjusted below the injection pipe (14) of the solvent S'1 and more precisely below the distribution device ( 16) of this same solvent in the continuous solvent-oil medium although a setting at a higher level still gives good performance.
- the column is preferably equipped with baffle plates (13) which allow better contact between the micelles of the asphalt phase and the upward flow of solvent. These baffles are preferably calculated in such a way that the rate of rise of the solvent or more precisely of the solvent phase added with the washed oil and the peptized resins remains less than 36 m / hour.
- the column head is preferably devoid of baffles to reduce this rate of rise and can be designed with a diameter slightly higher to avoid any entrainment of the colloidal particles of asphaltic phase of diameter lower than the micron.
- the product from the top of the column is recycled in the liquid phase via the line (18) in the solvent S1 slightly upstream of the mixing valve (2).
- the asphalt phase swollen with almost pure solvent is withdrawn from the bottom of the washing column by means of the pump (20) via the line (19) up to the vaporization tower (21) where the asphalt, which has been withdrawn, is separated. via line (22), solvent which is recycled through the. line (4), either at the head of the decanter, or upstream of this decanter and preferably at the level of the mixing valve.
- the recovery of the solvent associated with the deasphalted oil it is shown diagrammatically by the rectangle (23) and can for example be carried out in the process relating to the invention by vaporization of the solvent in a cascade of evaporators or of the exchanger type. conventional, either preferably of the falling film exchanger type or by separation of the solvent phase from the oil phase in a decanter operating under supercritical conditions or by ultrafiltration of the solvent on appropriate mineral membranes.
- the deasphalted oil leaves through the line (27).
- the decanter was in elongated form, was provided with a boot and was preferably inclined by 5 to 10 ° relative to the horizontal plane to allow the asphalt phase to flow freely towards the boot underlying.
- the invention does not however stipulate that this decanter is necessarily elongated; it can also be vertical as shown in FIG. 2, insofar as this geometry makes it possible to comply with the constraints of rising speed and of settling time recommended above. This geometry which requires less floor space will therefore be recommended for the treatment of annual capacities of less than 2 million tonnes:
- the decanter is, for process conditions, arranged vertically, the arrangement of the stages and the operating conditions recommended are strictly those which are the subject of the present invention.
- the method in a last variant can also be applied to the case where the operation is carried out in two stages with precipitation of a hard asphalt phase in a first stage and precipitation of a resin phase in a second stage.
- the simple idea of separate production of an asphalt phase and a resin phase has been known and practiced industrially for a very long time and is not part of the body of the invention.
- the object of the invention relates to the fact that each stage, as shown in FIG. 3, comprises a staggering of the 3 elementary stages: mixing-precipitation, decantation, washing-repeping, completely similar to that described in the previous variants where the asphalts and resins were precipitated in a single phase.
- the precipitation and decantation are carried out in the first stage at a temperature of 20 to 60 ° C lower than that which is applied when the precipitation is carried out in one go, that is to say say at the minimum temperature so that the asphalt phase remains liquid and sufficiently fluid at the outlet of the decanter to be able to be handled without problem.
- the step of washing the asphalt phase in this variant is carried out at a temperature equal to or slightly higher than that of the decanter.
- the solvent-oil-resin mixture from washing through line 18 is mixed with the solvent-oil-resin mixture from the first decanter (24).
- the oil-resin solvent mixture is heated (35) to a temperature 30 to 70 ° C higher than that applied in the first decanter.
- the solvent-oil-resins mixture preferably passes through the tubes of the exchanger and not on the shell side; moreover the flow of the solvent-oil-resins mixture will be a gravity flow; the extract is separated by the line (38) for fractionation in the separator (23).
- the raffinate is sent by line (39) to the washer (40).
- the ascending speeds and the residence times in the settling tank (37) and the column (40) are included in the ranges recommended above for the tank (7) and the column (12).
- the solvent / resin phase ratio at (40) is between 2 and 4.
- the solvent-oil mixture is recycled via line (43) upstream of the exchanger (35).
- the solvent for washing the resin phase is injected through line (41) at the bottom of the column - (40) for washing the resin phase after passing through the exchanger (42) so as to adjust the temperature of said solvent at a value lower than that of the decanter (37) from 5 to 30 ° C.
- the resin phase (44) is released from the solvent entrained in (45) by "flash” and / or steam entrainment.
- the resin phase (46) is recovered.
- the recovered solvent is sent via line - (47) to line (4).
- the process therefore makes it possible, in two stages of similar designs, to ensure very flexibly the production of an oil phase (27) devoid of asphaltenes and very poor in resins as well as the simul tan of an asphalt phase and a resin phase, the proportions of these last two phases can be adjusted at will, for a given load, a solvent and given solvent levels, by the choice of temperatures applied in ( 7 ) and (37) on the one hand, in (15) and (42) on the other hand.
- a SAFANIYA residue is deasphalted by addition of a solvent essentially consisting of a mixture of pentane and isopentane.
- the characteristics of the residue are presented in Table 1 and the composition of section C5 in Table 2.
- the operation is carried out in a unit capable of treating from 1 t / h to 3 t / h of residue and whose process characteristics are similar to those which are the subject of the invention described above.
- the tubular exchanger is arranged vertically.
- the washing-repeating column is fitted with interwoven horizontal baffles so as to achieve the equivalent of 2 theoretical stages for both mass and heat transfer.
- a series of 10 tests were carried out in accordance with the diagram in FIG. 1.
- the operating conditions applied are presented in table 3.
- the solvent of the oil-solvent mixture was recovered for 90% in a cascade of film evaporators falling and for the last 10 percent by stripping of the oily phase under pressure conditions lower than those applied in the decanting operation.
- Table 4 gives the yields and some characteristics of the products obtained.
- the deasphalting of a BOSCAN atmospheric residue is carried out by adding the same solvent of the C5 cut type as that used in Example 1.
- the operation is carried out in the same unit as that described in the context of Example 1.
- Table 6 gives the essential characteristics of the charge treated and Table 7 the yields and characteristics of the products obtained. This example was more particularly chosen to illustrate the importance of the washing step on the yields of deasphalted oil. This series of tests further highlights the importance of the conditions applied in the washing step.
- the oil yields are higher the lower the washing temperature and the solvent / asphalt phase ratio which, at the outlet of the settling tank, is composed of the asphalt swollen with solvent and oil, is between 1.6 and 2 times the volume of the final asphalt coming out of the washing tower. This implies that the ratio of the solvent to the asphalt phase entering the washing tower in the previous tests remains well between 0.5 and 8.
- the deasphalting of the SAFANIYA vacuum residue is carried out, the characteristics of which are presented in Table 1 but using for the precipitation a C4 cut containing by weight 3% of propane, 35% of isobutane, 61% of butane and 1% of isopentane.
- the tests are carried out in the same unit as that described in the previous examples.
- the operating conditions of the series of tests are summarized in Table 8, the yields and characteristics of the products obtained are presented in Table 9.
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