汽油催化改质反应过程数值模拟

在汽油催化反应动力学模型和气固两相流动模型的基础上,建立了汽油改质反应过程流动-反应耦合模型。针对不同的转化反应器构型（提升管、提升管-床层反应器）,对汽油改质过程进行了数值模拟。模拟结果表明,对提升管反应器而言,汽油经过低温改质反应后,烯烃含量可以从35.1%降低到18%左右,烯烃降低幅度可达48%,汽油中烯烃主要转化为异构烷烃。另外,随着反应温度的升高,汽油转化反应中的裂化反应增强,导致汽油收率下降。对于提升管-床层反应器而言,汽油中的烯烃含量可以降得更低,在床层空速4时,烯烃含量可以降低到5%左右,汽油收率为80%左右。     

Establishment and solution of eight-lump kinetic model for FCC gasoline secondary reaction using particle swarm optimization

An eight-lump kinetic model contained 21 kinetic parameters was proposed to describe the secondary reaction process of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) gasoline. The model was solved by hybrid particle-swarm optimization (HPSO) which incorporated evolutionary strategies and the simulated annealing method into particle swarm optimization (PSO). A series of experiments were carried out in a riser reactor over an improved Y zeolite catalyst with different temperatures, catalyst to oil ratios and vapor residence times. The product distribution was obtained to estimate the 21 kinetic parameters of model; the calculated results obtained using the HPSO algorithm agreed well with the experimental results.     

催化裂化汽油的二次反应

从降烯烃、降硫和增产丙烯的现实需要出发,分析了FCC汽油二次反应中的理想和非理想反应.用小型提升管催化裂化实验装置考察了FCC粗汽油在REUSY、ZRP和MO-REY沸石催化剂上二次反应的产品分布和改质汽油组成;探讨了操作强度对二次反应转化率和选择性的影响.结果表明：在Y型或ZRP沸石催化剂作用下,FCC汽油二次反应不仅产生更轻的干气和富含丙烯的液化气,也产生更重的柴油和焦炭.二次反应得到的改质汽油与原料汽油相比,其烯烃含量和硫含量降低,芳烃含量和辛烷值明显提高.二次反应的转化深度和选择性取决于原料汽油的烯烃含量、催化剂沸石类型和操作强度.     

Application of Novel Zeolite Y Nanoparticles in Catalytic Cracking Reactions

The cracking activity of a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst containing novel zeolite Y nanoparticles fabricated using mesoporous silica (average particle size of 150 nm) was examined and compared with the performance of other catalysts. The activity experiments were carried out in a fluidized bench-scale batch riser simulator reactor. The bulky probing compound of 1,3,5-triisopropylbenzene (TIPB) was cracked to lighter compounds over a catalyst containing 25% of the developed zeolite. The synthesized sodium-type zeolite nanoparticles were subjected to two cycles of ion-exchange treatment using ammonium sulfate and lanthanum chloride and then to calcination. To investigate the effects of particle size on the activity, three additional catalysts were prepared with the mean particle size of the supported zeolites ranging from 450 to 1800 nm. The preparation of the FCC catalysts was conducted by mixing the highly aqueous dispersed zeolite Y nanoparticles with colloidal silica–alumina as a matrix and silica sol as a binder. The results of the catalytic cracking of TIPB demonstrated the significant effect of the size reduction of the synthesized zeolite Y nanoparticles on the catalytic performance of the catalyst. The FCC catalyst that contained zeolite Y nanoparticles (150 nm) showed superior conversion and selectivity percentages for the main products. The results of this study have a direct implication on the preparation of colloidal catalysts containing zeolite Y nanoparticles, which form stable emulsion with petroleum products. These emulsions can be utilized for slurry and ebullated bed reactors in heavy oil upgrading applications.     

下行式循环流化床用于催化裂化过程的数学模拟

采用十一集总动力学,结合气固流体力学行为和轴、径向扩散行为,建立了适合于提升管及下行式循环流化床催化裂化的数学模型,采用此模型对催化裂化过程计算的结果表明,下行床内目的产品选择性显著高于提升管,但在与工业提升管相同的操作条件下,下行床内原料转化率较低,优势不能发挥。适当增加下行床长度、增大床径、使物料循环反应、增加剂油比、提高反应温度或反应压力等可以改善下行床的反应效果。下行床用于催化裂化过程,与之较匹配的应该是具有更高活性的催化剂,研制新型高活性催化剂也是下行床推向工业的重要措施之一。     

Fluid catalytic cracking feed hydrotreatment and its severity impact on product yields and quality

This paper investigates the effect of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) feed hydrotreatment and its severity increase on product yields and quality obtained in a commercial and a laboratory MAT FCC units. The hydrotreatment of Ural heavy vacuum gas oil reduces not only sulfur, nitrogen, Conradson carbon and metals content in the FCC feed but also increases the mononuclear aromatic hydrocarbons content by 8% absolute at almost no change in the total aromatics content. Regardless of this 8% increase of the mononuclear aromatics in the hydrotreated FCC feed the conversion increase in both commercial and laboratory MAT units was only 2%. The severity increase in the FCC feed hydrotreater leads to a higher conversion in the FCC, higher hydrogen transfer rate that results in higher isobutane/butylenes ratio, lower gasoline olefins content, and higher gasoline motor octane number. The hydrotreatment of the Ural heavy vacuum gas oil exhibited the same changes in FCC catalyst selectivities: lower coke and LCO selectivities and higher gasoline selectivity in both commercial riser FCC unit that has between 2 and 3 s time on stream, and the fixed bed reactor MAT unit, that has 30 s time on stream.     

流化催化裂化反应器的技术进展

介绍并讨论了近期开发的流化催化裂化反应器,包括两段串联反应器、双提升管反应器、下行式反应器、多段进料反应器以及新型提升管反应器端口结构技术。以新型反应器为核心技术的各种催化裂化新工艺可以有效地提高催化裂化反应的转化率和选择性,减少非理想产品产率,也可以改善产品质量,生产环境友好的清洁燃料油品。此外新型提升管反应器端口结构还可以抑制设备结焦,延长流化催化裂化(FCC)装置的开工周期。     

工业催化裂化过程在线工艺计算技术开发与应用

针对MIP工艺的原料（减渣／油浆层、蜡油／回炼油层、柴油层）和产物（汽油、液化气＋干气、焦炭）六个集总组分渣油催化裂化动力学模型,并根据某工业催化裂化提升管反应器流场特性应用序列理想平推流反应器与理想全混流反应器模型的混合反应器模型,建立了工业渣油催化裂化装置反应再生过程工艺计算模型。结合采用由化验值校正和模型参数交替校正的双重校正策略,在某工业连续催化裂化装置上进行在线工艺计算应用,以在线预测过程的裂化产物收率与产物分布。在进料和反应操作条件较大的变化范围内,在线预测趋势和预测精度均令人满意,符合工业过程先进控制的工艺计算精度需求。     

小型提升管反应器流动-反应耦合模拟

在提升管气固两相湍流流动模型和重油反应动力学集总模型的基础上,利用Fluent软件建立了催化裂化提升管反应器气固两相流动与反应耦合模型,对实验室小型提升管反应器进行了数值模拟,考察了气固两相的流动、传热、传质与反应过程。结果表明,提升管反应器内气固两相在轴向和径向的流动、传热与反应的分布不均匀。在入口附近。原料和催化剂温度变化显著,各组分的浓度变化剧烈,在提升管上部,变化平缓。反应器出口各组分质量分数的模拟值和实验值基本吻合。说明该模型对提升管反应器出口参数和反应结果具有较好的预测性。     

重油催化裂化工艺的新进展

介绍了重油催化裂化工艺的新进展,如毫秒催化裂化工艺、下行床反应器催化裂化工艺、两段提升管催化裂化工艺、多产轻质烯烃的催化裂化新工艺、催化裂化汽油改质降烯烃新工艺等,并对重油催化裂化工艺的发展趋势进行了展望。     

Numerical Simulation on Gas-Solid Two-Phase Turbulent Flow in FCC Riser Reactors(Ⅱ) Numerical Simulation on the Gas-Solid Two-Phase Turbulent Flow

Numerical simulation on the flow,heat transfer and cracking reactions in commercial fluid catalyticcracking(FCC)riser reactors were carried out employing the developed turbulent gas-solid two-phase flow-reac-tion model for FCC riser reactors given in Part Ⅰ of the present paper.Detailed information about the turbulentflow fields in the riser reactor obtained revealed the basic characteristics of the gas-solid two-phase turbulentflows when heat transfer and catalytic cracking reactions were co-existing in the riser.Results showed that thedistributions of the flow,the turbulence kinetic energy and the catalyst particle concentration are not uniform inthe axial,radial and tangential directions.The most complicated part of the riser reactor is the feed injectingzone.The complicated configuration of the turbulent gas-solid two-phase flows would exert a great influence onthe results of interphase heat transfer and cracking reactions.     

CFD analysis of hydrodynamic, heat transfer and reaction of three phase riser reactor

Catalytic cracking reaction and vaporization of gas oil droplets have significant effects on the gas solid mixture hydrodynamic and heat transfer phenomena in a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) riser reactor. A three-dimensional computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model of the reactor has been developed considering three phase hydrodynamics, cracking reactions, heat and mass transfer as well as evaporation of the feed droplets into a gas solid flow. A hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian method was applied to numerically simulate the vaporization of gas oil droplets and catalytic reactions in the gas-solid fluidized bed. The distributions of volume fraction of each phase, gas and catalyst velocities, gas and particle temperatures as well as gas oil vapor species were computed assuming six lump kinetic reactions in the gas phase. The developed model is capable of predicting coke formation and its effect on catalyst activity reduction. In this research, the catalyst deactivation coefficient was modeled as a function of catalyst particle residence time, in order to investigate the effects of catalyst deactivation on gas oil and gasoline concentrations along the reactor length. The simulation results showed that droplet vaporization and catalytic cracking reactions drastically impact riser hydrodynamics and heat transfer.     

DOC-Ⅰ降烯烃催化剂小型提升管反应性能评价

采用小型提升管催化裂化试验装置评价研制的DOC-Ⅰ降烯烃催化剂的催化裂化反应性能。结果表明,在反应温度500 ℃、剂油质量比6和停留时间1.99 s条件下,DOC-Ⅰ催化剂上原料油的转化率达75.01%,较参比催化剂提高1.79个百分点,相应的液化气产率降低0.28个百分点,汽油产率增加2.9个百分点,烯烃含量下降5.21个百分点,异构烷烃和芳烃含量明显增加,产品分布有效改善。表明研制的DOC-Ⅰ催化剂具有较好的催化裂化性能和降烯烃能力。     

提升管催化裂化反应过程数值模拟

在气固两相流体动力学模型的基础上.采用基于机理反应的FCC14集总模型.考虑了反应温度、局部固体浓度变化以及流动对反应的影响,建立了重油流化催化裂化流动一一反应耦合模型.模拟结果表明,重油裂化反应主要发生在喷嘴附近区域,在喷嘴附近已经有45%的重油转化为汽油和柴油.随着距离喷嘴位置的增加,汽油产率逐渐上升,但距离喷嘴位置12m以后,汽油产率基本保持不变.从汽油组成变化来看,在整个提升管内汽油中烯烃含量一直处于下降趋势,由喷嘴区域的60wt%降低到提升管出口位置的42wt%左右.汽油烷烃含量一直呈增加趋势,而汽油中环烷烃含量和芳烃含量变化较小.     

A process for producing ultraclean gasoline by coupling efficient hydrodesulfurization and directional olefin conversion

To solve the contradiction between ultradeep hydrodesulfurization (HDS) and octane recovery in clean gasoline production, this article proposes a novel two‐stage fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) gasoline hydro‐upgrading process with the selective HDS catalyst in the first reactor and the complemental HDS and octane recovery catalyst in the second reactor. The process achieved the relayed removal of sulfur‐containing compounds with different natures, providing itself with excellent HDS performance, and the hydroisomerization and aromatization of olefins in the second stage endowed the process with superior octane recovery ability and high product yield while remarkably reducing the olefin content of FCC gasoline. The process was also featured by low hydrogen consumption due to the low first‐stage olefin saturation and the balanced second‐stage hydrogenation and dehydrogenation. The two‐stage process developed here sheds a light for efficiently producing ultralow sulfur gasoline from the poor‐quality FCC gasoline of high olefin and sulfur contents. © 2012 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 59: 571–581, 2013     

Effects of metal modifications of Y zeolites on sulfur reduction performance in fluid catalytic cracking process

The acidity of catalytically active component, e.g., ultra stable Y zeolite (USY), plays an important role in determining their cracking activity and selectivity. To develop advanced sulfur reduction catalytic cracking catalysts, different type of elements were used to modify USY and the resulting catalysts were evaluated in a confined fluidized bed reactor and a micro-activity testing unit. The relation between the acidity of the zeolite and the conversion of sulfur compounds as well as the distributions of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) products were discussed. The results showed that the rare earth (RE) metal can stabilize the catalyst and increase the conversion, but cannot increase the selectivity to thiophene compounds; V can reduce the sulfur content by 36.3 m%, but decreases the overall conversion compared with the base catalyst. An optimum catalyst was obtained by the combined RE and V modification, over which the sulfur content in FCC gasoline can be decreased and the selectivity for the target products can be improved, with the sulfur content reduced by 30 m% and the selectivity to coke even decreased by 0.20 m% at a comparable conversion level of the base catalyst.     

Cleaner gasoline production by using glycerol as fuel extender

Glycerol, a major by-product of biodiesel production, was employed as a fuel extender in this study. The process was originally investigated by etherifying the entire fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) gasoline with glycerol. The reactions were carried out in a pressurized liquid phase reactor in the presence of three different catalysts (i.e. Amberlyst 16, Amberlyst 15, and β-zeolite) at 70 °C and 2.6 MPa with a volume ratio of FCC gasoline to glycerol ratio of 84:16 for 10 h. The catalytic activity could be ordered as Amberlyst 16 > Amberlyst 15 >> β-zeolite. The properties of FCC and etherified FCC products were determined by the standard analysis of Research Octane Number (RON), blending Reid vapor pressure (bRvp), distillation temperature following the standard methods of ASTM D-2699, ASTM D-5191 and ASTM D-86, respectively. It was found that the olefin content decreased opposing with increasing of octane number due to ethers of glycerol formation and the etherified gasoline product has lower bRvp than that of original FCC gasoline. The process of FCC gasoline etherification with glycerol showed great environmental benefits; in addition, ethers produced renewably from glycerol could extend the gasoline volume.     

Recycling polystyrene into fuels by means of FCC: performance of various acidic catalysts

In accordance with the option of recycling plastics into fuels by dissolving them in standard feedstocks for the process of catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons, FCC, various acidic catalysts (zeolites ZSM-5, mordenite, Y, and a sulfur-promoted zirconia) were tested in the conversion of polystyrene dissolved into inert benzene at 550°C in a fluidized-bed batch reactor. Experiments were performed with very short contact times of up to 12 s. Main products were in the gasoline range, including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, styrene, and minor amounts of C_9–12 aromatics and light C₅₋ compounds. Coke was always produced in very significant amounts. All the products can be justified with basis on the properties of each catalyst and the various possible catalytic reaction pathways: cracking after protolytic attack on the polymer fragments, styrene oligomerization and subsequent cracking, or hydrogen transfer to styrene. Styrene would be mainly produced in this system from thermal cracking of the polymer as the initial step. If present, shape selectivity effects due to catalyst structure can influence significantly the prevalence of the various reactions, because they would interfere with those undergoing bulky transition states, like styrene oligomerization or hydrogen transfer. Even though sulfur-promoted zirconia is highly acidic, the low proportion of Brønsted-type acid sites does not allow the occurrence of secondary styrene reactions. It was shown that most favorable product distributions (higher yields of desirable products) are obtained on equilibrium commercial FCC catalysts.     

Kinetic modeling of FCC process

Catalytic cracking of petroleum fractions a process termed as FCC is usually carried out in a reactor block with somewhat complicated hydrodynamic regime. The reactor block is considered as a combination of two different reactors. The riser is a near ideal plug-flow displacement of the catalyst and reaction mixture, while the main reactor vessel (separator) is considered as an ideal mixing CSTR. Temperature gradient along the plug-flow riser can vary on a linear and non-linear dependence. This is reflected by the thermal effect on the cracking products, along the altitude of the riser. Moreover, it can exert a considerable influence on the selectivity of the process in general, as characterized by the diversity of different hydrocarbon groups both in the gaseous and liquid products. The fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is a process of conversion of a heavy oil fraction into lighter products in a catalytic fluidized reactor. The chemical composition and the structure of the feed are reflected on the catalyst's selectivity and the amount of coke deposited. It is, therefore, necessary to consider the feed type on modeling the process. Cracking reaction in the model was represented as a five-stage process. Reaction rates for the plug-flow riser and the ideal mixing separator are described mathematically in differential and algebraic forms. The model takes into account, exponential dependence of the specific reaction rate on temperature, as well as reflects the influence of the real and bulk catalyst densities, circulation rate, equilibrium and fresh catalyst's activities, reactor pressure, feed rate and unit construction. The model was developed based on a data taken from an industrial FCC unit, that were used to compute the kinetic constants and other parameters. Concrete computed kinetic parameters were compared with corresponding experimental data for adequacy. FCC process is in constant technological development with modernization of especially the riser reactor. Kinetic modeling of the catalytic FCC reactor will give a further understanding of the process and explain the complicated mechanism involved for an efficient and optimal conversion of the feed stock.