Differential Thermal Analysis

Kinetics of dehydroxylation of kaolin in presence of oil field effluent treatment plant sludge

Demand for high-value petroleum products is increasing and crude oils and their distillation products are becoming heavier. The thermal cracking of a vacuum residue (VR) from REB (Russian Export Blend) crude oil was carried out in an autoclave. LCO (light cycle oil), naphtha, and brown coal (BC) were added with the aim of studying their effect on the final products composition. The elemental analysis (%C, %N, %H, %S) was performed and dynamic viscosity, density, GC of gases (“Refinery Gas Analysis”), solubility in hexane and toluene, and simulated distillation were examined in raw materials, gaseous, and liquid products. As anticipated, due to its high aromatics content, the addition of LCO proved the best option, obtaining the highest yield of lighter liquids. The naphtha addition resulted in a slight increment of heavier products in the gaseous phase and higher yields to solids. The literature does not contain any extensive studies of the addition of BC to VR in the hydrovisbreaking process. The addition of BC resulted in an increment in the yield of the gaseous product and assumed the highest relative total consumption of hydrogen during the reaction.

Hydrovisbreaking of vacuum residue from Russian Export Blend: influence of brown coal, light cycle oil, or naphtha addition

Thermal analysis was used for investigating the effect of the addition of the residue obtained from crude oil vacuum distillation on the carbonization process of brown coal. The kinetic analysis of the experimental TG curves was carried out by using the Coats-Redfern equation and then to select the most likely mechanism (functiong (α)) for particular decomposition stages of brown coal and its mixture with the residue. In the brown coal carbonization process the nucleation of a new solid phase is predominant. In the temperature range of the decomposition of coal (620–820 K) the addition of residue results a change in the mechanism of the thermal decomposition process — in the mixture three-dimensional diffusion processes and one-dimensional diffusion occur, depending on the composition. Above 730 K (secondary carbonation processes) the most likely mechanism involves the nucleation of a new solid phase as well as diffusion processes.

E. Kwiatkowska

Papers

A study of the mixture of coal and residue of the vacuum distillation of crude oil by thermal analysis