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Oil refining Refineries, Oil Refining Processes, Crude Oil DistillationChemical Conversion Processes of Crude Oil DistillatesCatalytic CrackingHydrodesulphurisationHydrotreatingIsomerisationReformingHydrocracking

Residue Conversion ProcessesGasoline UpgradingIntegrated Refinery StructuresEnvironmental Protection in Refineries, BAT (Best Available Technique) and BREF (BAT Reference Documents) of Refineries

Oil refining: Purposes

Fuels for cars, trucks, aeroplanes, ships and other forms of transport

Combustion fuels for the energy industry and for households

Raw materials for the petrochemical and chemical industry

Speciality products, lubricating oils, waxes, bitumen

Energy as by-product, heat, electricity

Oil refining History

First purpose-drilled oil well 1859 Pennsylvania Continuous distillation 1875 Baku 20th century--- increased demand on gasoline 1920s Thermal cracking 1930s Houdry catalytic cracking 1940s Pt catalysed reforming Desulfurisation 1960s FCC with zeolites Residue conversion technologies

Process units in integrated refineries

Crude oils and products

Sulfur content of crude oils

Refining processes: distillation

Task: separation

a) Crude desalter;

b) Crude heater;

c) Main fractionator;

d) Overhead accumulator;

e) Kerosene stripper;

f ) Light gas oil stripper;

g) Heavy gas oil stripper;

h) Vacuum heater;

i) Vacuum flasher

Catalytic cracking

Task: lowering molecular weight and boiling point

a) Reactor; b) Stripper;

c) Regenerator; d) Riser; e1) Regenerator standpipe; e2) Stripper standpipe;

f) Cyclone vessel; g) Air blower; h) Flue gas expander; i) Waste-heat boiler;

j) Fractionator; k) Absorber;

l) Debutanizer; m) Depropanizer

Viscosity breaking

Gasoline hydrotreaterCatalyst composition:

Co Mo Ni W

Active form: sulfided

Task: eliminating sufur content

a) Process heater; b) Reactor; c) High-pressure separator; d) Low-pressure separator; e) Stabilizer; f ) Gasoline splitter

Hydrodesulfurisation of gas oil

Task: decreasing sulfur content

a) Process heater; b) Reactor; c) High-pressure separator; d) Low-pressure separator; e) Gas oil stripper; f ) Gas oil dryer; g) Stripper overhead drum

Hydrotreating of pyrolysis gasoline

Task: stabilising the product, desulfurisation

a) First stage reactor; b) First stage separator; c) Depentanizer; d) Gasoline (heart cut) column; e) Second stage reactor; f ) Second stage separator; g) Debutanizer

Catalytic reformingTasks: increase octane number, production of aromatics

Catalyst: Pt on alumina (alloyed with Sn)

a) Charge – product heat exchanger;

b) Process furnace (charge heating cell, first intermediate heating cell, and second intermediate heating cell);

c), d), e) Reforming reactors;

f ) Catalyst regeneration section;

g) Reactor product separator;

h) Stabilizer;

i) Recycle gas compressor;

j) Product cooler

Catalytic reforming

Reactions during catalytic reforming:

CH3 CH3

+ 3 H2

CH3

+ 3 H2

CH3

CH3

+ 4 H2

+ H2 +

Dehydrogenation

Dehydrocyclisation

Hydrocracking

Dehydroisomerisation

Isomerisation

Hydrocracking

Task: produce better quality distillates Catalysts: Co-Mo, Ni-W, sulfided

a) Hydrogen heater; b) First-stage reactor (hydrotreating); c) Second-stage reactor (hydrocracking); d) High-pressure separator; e) Hydrogen compressor; f ) Low-pressure separator; g) Fractionator

Residue conversion processes

Task: increase the yield of high value products „H-in” and „C-out” processes

Delayed coking (Dunai Finomító)

In most advanced refinery structures:

hydroprocessing + [ coking, deasphalting, hydrocracking ] + partial oxidation

a) Fractionator; b) Furnace; c) Coke drums; d) Gas oil stripper; e) Overhead accumulator

The atmospheric residue feed is introduced to the fractionator (a) where it condenses some of the cracked vapors. The fractionator bottom product is heated in a tube furnace (b) to ca. 490 °C, and the cracked furnace effluent flows through one of the coke drums (c) in which coke is being formed and deposited. The cracked vapors from the coke drum are separated further in the fractionator. In a 24 h cycle, one of the coke drums is in use while the other is emptied by means of a hydraulic coke removal procedure.

The introduction of the fluid coking process brought the advantage of continuous operation, thus avoiding alternate use of the coke drums. The cracking reactions occur at 500 – 550 °C in the reactor in a fluid bed of coke particles into which the residue feed is injected. Coke fines are removed from the cracked vapors in cyclone separators before fractionation. The coke formed in the reactor flows continuously to the heater, where it is heated up to 600 – 650 °C by partial combustion in a fluid bed. The heated coke particles are returned to the reactor, from where the net coke production is withdrawn.

Gasoline upgrading processesTask: producing better fuel, high octane number, no health risk,

environmentally more friendly

Processes: alkylation, polymerisation, isomerisation

) Reactor; b) Settler; c) Isostripper; d) Depropanizer; e) HF stripper

Integrated refinery structures

Hydroskimming

Integrated refinery structures

Catalytic cracking--visbreaking

Integrated refinery structures

Hydrocracking—catalytic cracking

Integrated refinery structures

Hydrocracking--coking

Yield structures of refinery conversion schemes for Arabian light crude processing

Environmental protection in the oil and gas industry

Emissions to the atmosphere, to groundwater, to soil, to the sea

Emission during exploration, production, manufacturing, storage and transportation (enormous trasportation distances and quantities !!!)

Main air pollutants emitted by a refinery

Pollutant Sources

CO2 Process furnaces, boilers, gas turbines, FCC regenerators, CO boilers, flare systems, incinerators

CO Process furnaces, boilers, FCC regenerators, CO boilers, flare systems, incinerators, sulfur recovery units

NOx Process furnaces, boilers, gas turbines, FCC regenerators, CO boilers, flare systems, incinerators, coke calciners

Particulates includig metals

Process furnaces, boilers, gas turbines, FCC regenerators, CO boilers, cke plants, incinerators

Sulfur oxides Process furnaces, boilers, gas turbines, FCC regenerators, CO boilers, flare systems, incinerators, sulfur recovery units

VOCs Storage and handling facilities, flare systems, gas separation units, oil/water separation units, fugitive emissions (valves, flanges)

Energy consumption in refineries

The term ‘best available techniques’ BAT is defined in Article 2(11) of the Directive as “the most effective and advanced stage in the development of activities

and their methods of operation which indicate the practical suitability of particular techniques for providing in principle the basis for emission limit values designed to prevent and, where that is not practicable, generally to reduce emissions and the

impact on the environment as a whole.”

Article 2(11) goes on to clarify further this definition as follows:· “techniques” includes both the technology used and the way in which the installation

is designed, built, maintained, operated and decommissioned;·

“available” techniques are those developed on a scale which allows implementation in the relevant industrial sector, under economically and technically viable conditions,

taking into consideration the costs and advantages, whether or not the techniques are used or produced inside the Member State in question, as long as they are

reasonably accessible to the operator;

· “best” means most effective in achieving a high general level of protection of theenvironment as a whole.

Techniques to consider in the determination of BAT

Close to 600 techniques have been considered in the determination of BAT. Those techniques have been analysed following a consistent scheme. That

analysis is reported for each technique with a brief description, the environmental benefits, the cross-media effects, the operational data, the

applicability and economics.

BREF document for each industrial sector.

Amongst the many environmental issues addressed in the BREF, the five that are dealt with below are probably the most important:

· increase the energy efficiency· reduce the nitrogen oxide emissions· reduce the sulphur oxide emissions

· reduce the volatile organic compounds emissions· reduce the contamination of water

The bubble concept usually refers to air emissions of SO2, but can also be applied to NOx, dust,CO and metals (Ni, V). The bubble concept is a regulatory tool applied in several EU countries.As represented in the picture, the bubble approach for emissions to air reflects a “virtualsingle stack” for the whole refinery.

Establishing associated emission values in the bubble concept

If the bubble concept is to be used as an instrument to enforce the application of BAT in the refinery, then the emission values defined in the refinery bubble should be

such that they indeed reflect BAT performance for the refinery as a whole. The most important notion is then to:

identify the total fuel use of the refinery; assess the contribution of each of the fuels to the total fuel consumption of the

refinery; quantify the emissions from process units implicated in such emissions (e.g. FCC,

SRU); review the applicability of BAT to each of these fuels and/or the process units

combine this information with the technical and economical constraints in using these techniques.

Good housekeeping/management techniques/tools. BAT is to: implement and adhere to an Environmental Management System (EMS). A good EMS could include:The preparation and publication of an annual environmental performance report. A report will also enable the dissemination of performance improvements to others,and will be a vehicle for information exchange. External verifications may enhance the credibility of the report.The delivery to stakeholders on an annual basis of an environmental performanceimprovement plan. Continuous improvement is assured by such a plan.The practice of benchmarking on a continuous basis, including energy efficiency andenergy conservation activities, emissions to air (SO2, NOx, VOC, and particulates),discharges to water and generation of waste. Benchmarking for energy efficiencyshould involve an internal system of energy efficiency improvements, or intra- andinter-company energy efficiency benchmarking exercises, aiming for continuousimprovements and learning lessons.An annual report of the mass balance data on sulphur input and output via emissionsand products (including low-grade and off-spec products and further use and fate).Improve stability of unit operation by applying advanced process control and limitingplant upsets, thereby minimising times with elevated emissions (e.g. shutdowns and startups)Apply good practices for maintenance and cleaning.Implement environmental awareness and include it in training programmes. Implement a monitoring system that allows adequate processing and emission control.

Emission free loading of gasoline

a) Storage tank with floating roof; b) Exhaust gas washes (gasoline); c) Fine purification (adsorption); d) Low-temperature cooling (to – 40 °C)

Reduction of hydrocarbon

emission

A) Vapor recovery at the service station;

B) Large carbon filter in the motor vehicle

a) Gas displacement pipe; b) Vent; c) Gas venting valveactuated by filling nozzle; d) Gas – liquid separator; e) Gasline; f ) Magnetic valve andregeneration control orifice;g) Standard gas vent andoverturn protection; h) Outlet;i) Fuel tank; j) Liquid seal infilling tube (reduces escape ofgases); k) Activated carbon filterwith 4.5 L capacity (traps gases)

Water pollution

During exploration and production under sea level

Transportation on waterways Refineries: process water, steam, wash

water, cooling water, rain water from production areas, from non-process areas

Water pollutants: oil, H2S, NH3, organic chemicals, phenols, CN-, suspended solids

Waste generation

Oily sludges and materials Spent catalysts, other materials

Drums and containers Spent chemicals

Mixed wastes

Example of specific emissions and consumptions found in European refineries