Abstract

This thesis examines how temperature affects the coke obtained from coal pitch and oil residue. The types of coke suitable for use as electrodes and anodes have been identified. A review of existing technologies capable of solving problems with the use of coal tar pitch has been conducted. Studies and experiments were conducted on the coking of heavy feedstock with different chemical composition (HGO FCC, tar and coal pitch). Three experiments were conducted using each feedstock (FCC, tar, coal pitch) for a period of 5 hours. To find out the effect of residence time on the coking, three sets of experiments for each feedstock were performed by first heating the samples for 4 hours to the set temperature and maintaining this temperature for another 5hours (9 hours in total). The dependence of the heating mode of the coking chambers on the material balance was studied. Samples of the coke formed from the coking were studied at the laboratory to determine the possibility of using them as anode in the aluminum industry and electrode in steel industry. The relevance of the work is explained by the good applicability of the coking process both for processing heavier types of oil raw materials, increasing the depth of selection of light distillate fractions.

Highlights

  • The depletion in reserves of light and medium crude oils has focused interest in heavy oils

  • The evaluation process began with the identification and selection of samples where samples of coal pitch, fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) residue and tar were collected

  • A summary and descriptive statistics of the results of the samples of FCC, Coal pitch and tar that were analyzed are presented in table 6 and the parameters compared with standard guidelines

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Introduction

The depletion in reserves of light and medium crude oils has focused interest in heavy oils. There is currently high demand for 20 ̊ - 25 ̊ API quality crude oil because the production of light and other similar crude oils has been declining in recent years. To meet this demand of light oil, heavy oil from the reservoir and residual oil have to be upgraded. Coking is a refinery unit operation that upgrades material called bottoms from the atmospheric or vacuum distillation column into higher-value products and, as the name implies, produces petroleum coke [1]. The coking process is capable of accounting for up to 30 wt% of the product as produced coke. The various products are useful by different industries, it is important to know how different feedstocks and operating conditions affect the products

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