PRESENTED BY: S. L.

Lee

Hydroprocessing Introduction
RELIANCE OCT 2009

What is Hydroprocessing?
The treatment of an hydrocarbon (fraction) with hydrogen in
the presence of a catalyst at elevated temperatures and
pressures to achieve the following:
Removal of impurities (e.g. sulphur, aromatics, heavy metals)
Improvement of quality (e.g. smoke point, cetane, density,
colour, cold flow)
Conversion of low to higher value products (e.g. diesel, naphtha)

Reformer pretreaters, hydrodesulphurisation units, aromatics

saturation units, hydrocrackers, residue hydrotreaters

Hydroprocessing in Refineries
Why do refineries operate Hydroprocessing Units?
To comply with Government regulations on product specs.
To prepare feed for downstream units
reformer, isomerisation units
FCC unit

To meet demand by.

converting low valued streams into high margin products.
upgrading the quality of refinery fuel products.

Increase profitability

Hydroprocessing Units

Naphtha HT

Reforming

Distillate HT

Vac column

Crude

Atm column

Tail gas treating

diesel/jet

Hydrocracking
MHC / FCC-PT

Resid Upgrade

gasoline

FCC

To HCU/ DHT / NHT

Low sulfur fuel oil

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gasoline

Simplified Process Flow

Scheme Hydrotreating unit
Recycle
Gas

Naphtha

H2S
Scrubber

Fresh Feed
Diesel
Wash Water
Makeup Gas
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Program
Building the HPC house
ULSD

Troubleshooting
Catalyst Deactivation

VGO
FCC PT
MHC
LCO
MidDist HT
Coker Nap

Unit
Monitoring
Catalyst
Sulphiiding
Flow Distribution
&
Catalyst Loading
Unit Operations
& Kinetics

Catalyst Structure & Functions

Reaction Mechanisms
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Optimising
Complex
performance

The Hydroprocessing Course

Objectives :
to transfer knowledge and know-how on key parameters
in hydroprocessing.

to (re-) introduce Albemarle Catalyst

The Hydroprocessing Course

At the end of the course
understand the fundamentals of hydroprocessing
understand the main operating parameters that affect
hydrotreating
gain insight into optimisation of your hydrotreater
methodology in troubleshooting
..and last but not least

get the telephone number of your Albemarle

representative in case you need to call.!!!!!!
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