Synergistic Process for FCC Light Cycle Oil Efficient Conversion To Produce High-Octane Number Gasoline

Abstract

Light cycle oil (LCO) from fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) was treated by selective hydrogenation and then cracked in a FCC apparatus. Compared with LCO, hydrogenated LCO (hydro-LCO) exhibited remarkable FCC performance, recording with that 50.83 wt % hydro-LCO was converted into gasoline fraction. This is attributed to the reduction of aromatics in hydro-LCO, especially for the multiring aromatics. After hydrogenation, the amount of multiring aromatics significantly decreased from 63.2 to 9.5 wt %, while naphthenoaromatics (including indans, tetralin, and indenes) increased from 8.8 to 34.2 wt %. In accordance with the experimental results and theoretical analysis of LCO reaction characteristics, a synergistic process for LCO efficient conversion to high octane number gasoline was proposed, and simulation experiments were carried out. The results show that, compared with routine FCC, 20 wt % higher conversion and 16 wt % more gasoline could be obtained. Moreover, gasoline from synergistic process exhibite...