Process for producing catalytic cracking gasoline with a high octane number

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10961471-B2
Application number	US-201816169424-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 24, 2018
Priority date	Oct 25, 2017
Publication date	Mar 30, 2021
Grant date	Mar 30, 2021

Abstract

A process for producing catalytic cracking gasoline includes the following steps: i) subjecting a heavy feedstock oil to a catalytic cracking reaction in the presence of a first catalytic cracking catalyst to obtain a first reaction product; ii) subjecting a hydrogenated cycle oil to a catalytic cracking reaction in the presence of a second catalytic cracking catalyst to obtain a second reaction product; iii) separating a mixture of the first reaction product and the second reaction product to obtain a catalytic cracking gasoline and a catalytic cracking light cycle oil; iv) subjecting the catalytic cracking light cycle oil or a fraction thereof to hydrogenation to obtain a hydrogenated product; and v) recycling the hydrogenated product to the step ii) as the hydrogenated cycle oil.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A process for producing catalytic cracking gasoline comprising the steps of:
i) subjecting a heavy feedstock oil to a catalytic cracking reaction in the presence of a first catalytic cracking catalyst to obtain a first reaction product;
ii) subjecting a hydrogenated cycle oil to a catalytic cracking reaction in the presence of a second catalytic cracking catalyst to obtain a second reaction product;
iii) separating a mixture of the first reaction product and the second reaction product to obtain a catalytic cracking gasoline and a catalytic cracking light cycle oil;
iv) subjecting the catalytic cracking light cycle oil or a fraction thereof to hydrogenation to obtain a hydrogenated product; and
v) recycling the hydrogenated product to the step ii) as the hydrogenated cycle oil,
wherein the step ii) and the step i) are carried out in a single riser reactor, and the heavy feedstock oil and the hydrogenated cycle oil are fed into the riser reactor at different heights thereof, and the first catalytic cracking catalyst and the second catalytic cracking catalyst are injected into the riser reactor at different points; or
the step i) is carried out in a primary riser reactor and the step ii) is carried out in a secondary riser reactor, wherein the second reaction product is fed into a upper middle portion of the primary riser reactor and is mixed with the first reaction product in the primary riser reactor.

2. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the weight ratio of the first catalytic cracking catalyst to the second catalytic cracking catalyst is in a range from 1:0.02 to 1:1.

3. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the single riser reactor is an equal-diameter riser reactor with or without a fluidized bed reactor, or a variable-diameter riser reactor with or without a fluidized bed reactor, or
each of the primary riser reactor and the secondary riser reactor is independently an equal-diameter riser reactor with or without a fluidized bed reactor, or a variable-diameter riser reactor with or without a fluidized bed reactor.

4. The process according to claim 1 , further comprising:
separating the catalytic cracking light cycle oil into a light fraction and a heavy fraction prior to the step iv), and subjecting the heavy fraction to hydrogenation in the step iv) to obtain the hydrogenated product; and
catalytic cracking the light fraction in the presence of the second catalytic cracking catalyst.

5. The process according to claim 4 , wherein the catalytic cracking light cycle oil is separated at a cut point between 240° C. and 260° C.

6. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the heavy feedstock oil is selected from the group consisting of straight-run wax oil, coker wax oil, deasphalted oil, hydrorefined oil, hydrocracking tail oil, vacuum residue, atmospheric residue, and combinations thereof.

7. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the first catalytic cracking catalyst and the second catalytic cracking catalyst each independently comprises, on a dry basis, 10% to 50% by weight of a zeolite, 5% to 90% by weight of an inorganic oxide and 0% to 70% by weight of a clay, based on the weight of the catalytic cracking catalyst;
wherein the zeolite is selected from the group consisting of a Y zeolite with or without a rare earth element, an HY zeolite with or without a rare earth element, a USY zeolite with or without a rare earth element, a Beta zeolite with or without a rare earth element, and combinations thereof; the inorganic oxide is selected from the group consisting of silica, alumina, and combinations thereof; and wherein the clay is selected from kaolin and/or halloysite.

8. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the step iv) is carried out in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst comprising an active metallic component and a support, said active metallic component is a Group VIB metal and/or a Group VIII non-noble metal, and the support is selected from the group consisting of alumina, silica, amorphous silica-alumina, and combinations thereof.

9. The process according to claim 8 , wherein the active metallic component is nickel-tungsten, nickel-tungsten-cobalt, nickel-molybdenum or cobalt-molybdenum.

10. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrogenation conditions employed in the step iv) include: a hydrogen partial pressure ranging from 5.0 MPa to 22.0 MPa, a reaction temperature ranging from 330° C. to 450° C., a volume space velocity ranging from 0.1 h −1 to 10.0 h −1 , and a hydrogen-to-oil volume ratio ranging from 100 Nm 3 /m 3 to 2000 Nm 3 /m 3 .

11. The process according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrogenation step iv) is carried out to an extent that a resultant hydrogenated product has a bicyclic aromatics content of no more than 20% by weight, a hydrogen content of no less than 10% by weight, and an initial boiling point of greater than 165° C.

12. A process for producing catalytic cracking gasoline comprising the steps of:
i) spraying a heavy feedstock oil into a riser reactor via a first nozzle, injecting a first catalytic cracking catalyst into the riser reactor at a first injection point located below the first nozzle, and subjecting the heavy feedstock oil to a catalytic cracking reaction to obtain a first reaction product;
ii) spraying a hydrogenated cycle oil into the riser reactor via a second nozzle, injecting a second catalytic cracking catalyst into the riser reactor at a second injection point located below the second nozzle, and subjecting the hydrogenated cycle oil to a catalytic cracking reaction to obtain a second reaction product;
iii) separating a mixture of the first reaction product and the second reaction product to obtain a catalytic cracking gasoline and a catalytic cracking light cycle oil;
iv) subjecting the catalytic cracking light cycle oil or a fraction thereof to hydrogenation to obtain a hydrogenated product; and
v) recycling the hydrogenated product to the step ii) as the hydrogenated cycle oil,
wherein the second nozzle and the first nozzle are disposed at different heights of the riser reactor, and the second injection point is different from the first injection point.

13. The process according to claim 12 , wherein, along a vertical direction of the riser reactor, the second nozzle is disposed above the first nozzle, and the second injection point is disposed at a position between the first nozzle and the second nozzle.

14. The process according to claim 13 , wherein the reaction time in the riser reactor section between the first nozzle and the second nozzle is between 0.05 seconds and 2 seconds.

15. The process according to claim 12 , wherein the reaction conditions in the riser reactor include: a reaction temperature ranging from 450° C. to 650° C., an absolute pressure ranging from 0.15 MPa to 0.4 MPa, a weight ratio of the total weight of the first and second catalytic cracking catalysts to the heavy feedstock oil ranging from 1 to 50, a reaction time of the heavy feedstock oil ranging from 1 second to 10 seconds, and a weight ratio of steam to the heavy feedstock oil ranging from 0.01 to 0.5; a weight ratio of the total weight of the first and second catalytic cracking catalysts to the hydrogenated cycle oil ranging from 5 to 100, a reaction time of the hydrogenated cycle oil ranging from 1 second to 10 seconds, and a weight ratio of steam to the hydrogenated cycle oil ranging from 0.01 to 0.3, with both the first catalytic cracking catalyst and the second catalytic cracking catalyst having a micro-activity of no less than 60.

16. A process for producing catalytic cracking gasoli

Assignees

• China Petroleum & Chem Corp
• Sinopec Res Inst Petroleum

Inventors

• Gong Jianhong
• Li Zekun
• Tang Jinlian
• Mao Anguo
• Zhang Jiushun
• Zhang Yuying
• Long Jun

Classifications

• C10G2300/1048

  Middle distillates · CPC title

• C10G69/04 Primary

  including at least one step of catalytic cracking in the absence of hydrogen · CPC title

• C10G45/02

  to eliminate hetero atoms without changing the skeleton of the hydrocarbon involved and without cracking into lower boiling hydrocarbons; Hydrofinishing · CPC title

• C10G11/00

  Catalytic cracking, in the absence of hydrogen, of hydrocarbon oils (cracking in direct contact with molten metals or salts C10G9/34) · CPC title

• C10G2400/02

  Gasoline · CPC title