Use of renewable oil in hydrotreatment process

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9969940-B2
Application number	US-201514932566-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 4, 2015
Priority date	Feb 15, 2011
Publication date	May 15, 2018
Grant date	May 15, 2018

Abstract

The use of bio oil from at least one renewable source in a hydrotreatment process, in which process hydrocarbons are formed from said glyceride oil in a catalytic reaction, and the iron content of said bio oil is less than 1 w-ppm calculated as elemental iron. A bio oil intermediate including bio oil from at least one renewable source and the iron content of said bio oil is less than 1 w-ppm calculated as elemental iron.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for avoiding catalyst plugging that causes an increase in the pressure drop of the hydrotreatment reactor during hydrotreatment comprising: purifying a biological feedstock from at least one renewable source that has an iron content above 1 w-ppm calculated as elemental iron to an iron content from 0.25 to 0.5 w-ppm; hydrotreating the purified biological feedstock from at least one renewable source with a catalyst to form hydrocarbons during a catalytic reaction in a trickle bed reactor; and avoiding plugging of the catalyst used in hydrotreating that causes an increase in the pressure drop of the hydrotreatment reactor.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the biological feedstock is selected from the group consisting of rapeseed oil, colza oil, canola oil, tall oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, hempseed oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, olive oil, linseed oil, mustard oil, palm oil, peanut oil, castor oil, coconut oil, camellia oil, jatropha oil, an oil derived from a microbial source, animal fat, fish oil, lard, tallow, train oil, recycled fat from the food industry, and a mixture thereof.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrocarbons formed in the hydrotreating are further processed in a hydroisomerisation process to iso-paraffins.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the microbial source is algae, bacteria, molds, filamentous fungi or a combination thereof.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrodeoxygenation is performed under a pressure from 10 to 150 bar, and at a temperature of from 200 to 400° C.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the catalyst comprises Pd, Pt, Ni, NiMo or CoMo, and a support of alumina and/or silica.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the catalyst comprises a NiMo/Al 2 O 3 catalyst, a CoMo/Al 2 O 3 catalyst, or a combination thereof.

8. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the iso-paraffins are converted into components for use in products selected from the group consisting of a base oil, lubrication oil, heating oil, diesel fuel, gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas. aviation fuel, solvent and biogas.

9. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the catalyst comprises a NiMo/Al 2 O 3 catalyst, a CoMo/Al 2 O 3 catalyst, or a combination thereof.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the purified biological feedstock has a phosphorous content that is greater than 5 w-ppm calculated as elemental phosphorous.

11. A method for avoiding catalyst plugging that causes an increase in the pressure drop of the hydrotreatment reactor during hydrotreatment comprising: purifying a biological feedstock from at least one renewable source to lower the content of impurities that have a correlation between the rate of increase in the pressure drop measured as bar/kg of biological feedstock and the concentration of impurity measured in ppm that is 0.75 or greater to a value between 0.25 to 0.5 w-ppm; hydrotreating the purified biological feedstock from at least one renewable source with a catalyst to form hydrocarbons during a catalytic reaction in a trickle bed reactor; and avoiding plugging of the catalyst used in hydrotreating that causes an increase in the pressure drop of the hydrotreatment reactor.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the biological feedstock is purified to lower only the content of impurities that have a correlation between the rate of increase in the pressure drop measured as bar/kg of biological feedstock and the concentration of impurity measured in ppm that is 0.75 or greater.

13. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the content of impurities that have a correlation between the rate of increase in the pressure drop measured as bar/kg of biological feedstock and the concentration of impurity measured in ppm that is 0.75 or greater in the biological feedstock is above 1 ppm before purification.

14. The method according to claim 11 , or 13 wherein the impurities that have a correlation between the rate of increase in the pressure drop measured as bar/kg of biological feedstock and the concentration of impurity measured in ppm that is 0.75 or greater is iron.

15. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the biological feedstock is selected from the group consisting of rapeseed oil, colza oil, canola oil, tall oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, hempseed oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, olive oil, linseed oil, mustard oil, palm oil, peanut oil, castor oil, coconut oil, camellia oil, jatropha oil, an oil derived from a microbial source, animal fat, fish oil, lard, tallow, train oil, recycled fat from the food industry, and a mixture thereof.

16. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the hydrocarbons formed in the hydrotreating are further processed in a hydroisomerisation process to iso-paraffins.

17. The method according to claim 16 , wherein the microbial source is algae, bacteria, molds, filamentous fungi or a combination thereof.

18. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the hydrodeoxygenation is performed under a pressure from 10 to 150 bar, and at a temperature of from 200 to 400° C.

19. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the catalyst comprises Pd, Pt, Ni, NiMo or CoMo, and a support of alumina and/or silica.

20. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the catalyst comprises a NiMo/Al 2 O 3 catalyst, a CoMo/Al 2 O 3 catalyst, or a combination thereof.

21. The method according to claim 16 , wherein the iso-paraffins are converted into components for use in products selected from the group consisting of a base oil, lubrication oil, heating oil, diesel fuel, gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas, aviation fuel, solvent and biogas.

22. The method according to claim 19 , wherein the catalyst comprises a NiMo/Al 2 O 3 catalyst, a CoMo/Al 2 O 3 catalyst, or a combination thereof.

23. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the purified biological feedstock has a phosphorous content that is greater than 5 w-ppm calculated as elemental phosphorous.

Assignees

• Neste Oyj

Inventors

• Ouni Tuomas
• Sippola Vainö
• Lindqvist Petri

Classifications

• C10G2300/1018

  of animal origin · CPC title

• C10G2400/02

  Gasoline · CPC title

• C10G2400/18

  Solvents · CPC title

• C10G2300/1014

  of vegetal origin · CPC title

• C10G2400/04

  Diesel oil · CPC title