Hydroprocessing peculiarities of Fischer–Tropsch syncrude |
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Authors: | Arno de Klerk |
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Affiliation: | aFischer–Tropsch Refinery Catalysis, Sasol Technology Research and Development, P.O. Box 1, Sasolburg 1947, South Africa |
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Abstract: | When catalysts developed for crude oil hydroprocessing are used for syncrude, there are syncrude-specific peculiarities to consider. These relate to differences in the nature and abundance of heteroatoms, olefins, metal species, waxes and aqueous products. Some important aspects are (a) heat release during naphtha and distillate hydroprocessing is very high, but wax hydrocracking is almost isothermal; (b) syncrude is sulphur-free and the use of sulphided base-metal hydroprocessing catalysts require the addition of sulphur-containing compounds to the syncrude; (c) oxygenates strongly adsorb on some catalytic surfaces to affect catalytic behaviour; (d) carbonyl–carboxylic acid interconversion and water produced by hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) may result in catalyst degradation by acid and hydrothermal attack; (e) carboxylic acids in syncrude result in equipment corrosion and catalyst leaching; (f) metal carboxylates are the main metal-containing species in syncrude and are not removed by hydrodemetallation (HDM) catalysis, but by thermal decomposition. |
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Keywords: | Hydroprocessing Fischer–Tropsch syncrude Refining Hydrodeoxygenation Oxygenates Metal carboxylates Olefins |
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