NSERC/Syncrude Industrial Research Chair in Fluid Coking Technologies

加拿大拥有丰富的重油储量，包括从油砂中提取的沥青。在世界范围内，技术上可开采的稠油储量现在比常规石油储量更大。此外，重油是许多常规原油的重要组成部分。重油必须升级为更清洁、更有价值的产品，如汽油、煤油、柴油和石化原料。最先进的升级工艺之一是液体焦化。重油被喷入热焦炭颗粒的流态化床中，其长碳氢链被热裂解成更有价值的碎片，形成一种合成原油，然后可以在常规炼油厂进行加工。埃克森美孚在其许多炼油厂使用液体焦化。帝国石油公司在其萨尼亚炼油厂使用流体焦化装置，加拿大辛克鲁德公司在其麦克默里堡升级厂使用流体焦化装置。加拿大15%至20%的原油生产是在液体焦化装置中加工的。使用流动焦化装置代替最常见的延迟焦化装置，大大减少了温室气体的净排放量。推动这一提议的愿景，也是加拿大辛克鲁德公司所认同的，是通过更好地了解流动焦化过程和开发新技术来改进流动焦化装置。其实际目标是提高流体焦化装置的可操作性和液体产率，并减少重油升级对环境的影响。

Canada has extensive reserves of heavy oils, including bitumen extracted from oil sands. Worldwide, technically recoverable heavy oil reserves are now larger than conventional oil reserves. In addition, heavy oils constitute a significant component of many conventional types of crude. Heavy oils must be upgraded to cleaner and more valuable products such as gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel and petrochemical feedstocks.One of the most advanced upgrading processes is Fluid Coking. Heavy oil is sprayed into a fluidized bed of hot coke particles where its long hydrocarbon chains are thermally cracked into more valuable fragments, which form a synthetic crude oil that can then be processed in regular refineries. ExxonMobil uses Fluid Coking in many of its refineries. Fluid Cokers are used by Imperial Oil in its Sarnia refinery and by Syncrude Canada in its Fort McMurray upgrading plant. Between 15 and 20% of Canada's crude oil production is processed in Fluid Cokers. Using Fluid Cokers instead of the most common delayed cokers greatly reduces net greenhouse gas emissions.The vision which drives this proposal, and which is shared by Syncrude Canada, is to improve Fluid Cokers through a better understanding of the Fluid Coking process and the development of new technologies. The practical objectives are to increase the operability and liquid yields of Fluid Cokers and to reduce the environmental footprint of heavy oil upgrading.