Saba A Gheni, Sameer A Ismael and Aysar T Jarullah
University of Missouri, USA
Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Pet Environ Engineering
In this work, reduced crude residue derived from Kirkuk crude oil using a commercial nickel-molybdenum on alumina (Ni- Mo/γ-Al2O3) catalyst pre-sulfided at specified conditions in an experimental scale is considered. A series of experiments were carried out in a continuous flow trickle bed reactor by varying the reaction temperature from 380 to 420° C, the liquid hourly space velocity from 0.3 to 1.0 hr-1 and the hydrogen pressure from 60 to 100 bars at constant hydrogen to oil ratio of 1000 L/L. The hydrocracking products were distillated into the following fraction: naphtha (IBP-160° C), kerosene (160-225° C), light gas oil (225-345° C), heavy gas oil (345-540° C) and vacuum reside (+540° C).
Email: ghenis@missouri.edu