The technical and economic analysis of processing and conversion of heavy oil cuts to valuable refinery products
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Vahid Pirouzfar
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Fariba Mohamadkhani
Abstract
Many of the modern refineries are founded on converting/upgrading the heavy bases of low value to lighter products by higher added value like gasoline, jet fuel and diesel fuel. In this work, some process configurations in heavy refinery cracking, converting and treating are technically and economically evaluated. In this purpose, four process configurations for refinery plants are suggested. These processes are evaluated and analyzed to obtain the most optimal configurations with the aim of achieving the most valuable refinery products. The difference of the processes is in heavy residue conversion and processing. These processes are included the Asphalt Air Blowing Unit (AABU, Type 1), Delayed Coker Unit (DCU, Type 2), Heavy Residue Hydro-Conversion (HRH, Type 3) and Solvent De-Asphalting (SDA, Type 4). The units are common in mentioned refineries cases and just ABU, HCU, DCU, HRH and SDA are different. In economic consideration, the payout period is considered as one of the standard methods of assessing the economic projects and economically estimating them. As results, the highest rate of gasoline is recorded in the refinery type of DCU unit and the highest amount of LPG/C4/C3, kerosene and gasoline production observed in refinery type of HRH unit. The construction of refinery with ABU unit has minimum investment (980 million $) and highest rate of return (19.4).
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Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
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- Enhanced mechanical stirring by eccentric impeller stirring system in zinc hydrometallurgy process for cadmium removal
- DEM simulation of biomass pyrolysis in a novel interconnected screw reactor
- Numerical and experimental investigations on enhancement mixing performance of multi-blade stirring system for fluids with different viscosities
- The technical and economic analysis of processing and conversion of heavy oil cuts to valuable refinery products
- Effect of inlet gas velocity on gas-solid fluidization characteristics in fluidized bed
- Investigation into a multiple input/output bifurcated biochemical reaction with substrate inhibition in a real CSTR based on Cholette’s model
- Performance of photocatalytic oxidation surface with new geometry for indoor environment application: experimental and simulation
- Optimization of hydrothermal liquefaction process for bio-oil products from kitchen residue under subcritical conditions
- Value-added biochar production from microwave pyrolysis of peanut shell
- Short Communications
- Environmentally sustainable synthesis of cyclic carbonates from epoxides and CO2 promoted by MCM-41 supported dual imidazolium ionic liquids catalysts
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Enhanced mechanical stirring by eccentric impeller stirring system in zinc hydrometallurgy process for cadmium removal
- DEM simulation of biomass pyrolysis in a novel interconnected screw reactor
- Numerical and experimental investigations on enhancement mixing performance of multi-blade stirring system for fluids with different viscosities
- The technical and economic analysis of processing and conversion of heavy oil cuts to valuable refinery products
- Effect of inlet gas velocity on gas-solid fluidization characteristics in fluidized bed
- Investigation into a multiple input/output bifurcated biochemical reaction with substrate inhibition in a real CSTR based on Cholette’s model
- Performance of photocatalytic oxidation surface with new geometry for indoor environment application: experimental and simulation
- Optimization of hydrothermal liquefaction process for bio-oil products from kitchen residue under subcritical conditions
- Value-added biochar production from microwave pyrolysis of peanut shell
- Short Communications
- Environmentally sustainable synthesis of cyclic carbonates from epoxides and CO2 promoted by MCM-41 supported dual imidazolium ionic liquids catalysts
