Abstract
Vacuum residue (VR) upgrading was conducted in the environment of supercritical water (SCW) without oxygen addition in an attempt to yield a maximum of light oil. Simulated distillation of the liquid products from a set of orthogonal experiments shows that temperature should not be too high to restrict coke formation, and the most beneficial condition is found at (1) 420 °C for the temperature, (2) 0.15 g/cm3 for the water density, (3) 2 g/g for the H2O/oil ratio, and (4) 1 h for the reaction time. A simultaneous increase of the water density and H2O/oil would significantly improve the cracking behavior and the yield in light oil. Scattered coke particles between 10 and 100 μm were generated from VR cracking, which suggests the dispersion effect of SCW. The infrared spectrum analysis has indicated an increase in the H/C atomic ratio in the liquid product, which implies that hydrogen is generated from the condensation reactions rather than from water because no oxygen-containing group was detected.
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