NSERC/Syncrude Industrial Research Chair in Fluid Coking Technologies

NSERC/Syncrude 流态化焦化技术工业研究主席

• 批准号: 461042-2018
• 负责人: Briens, CedricCL
• 金额: $ 10.93万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Industrial Research Chairs
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=746666
• 关键词: NSERC; Syncrude; Industrial; Research; Chair

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.

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，技术上可开采的重油储量现在大于常规石油储量。此外，重油构成许多常规类型原油的重要组分。重油必须升级为更清洁和更有价值的产品，如汽油，煤油，柴油和石化原料。最先进的升级工艺之一是流化焦化。重油被喷入热焦炭颗粒的流化床中，在那里其长烃链被热裂解成更有价值的碎片，形成合成原油，然后可以在常规炼油厂加工。埃克森美孚在其许多炼油厂使用流化焦化。帝国石油公司在其萨尼亚炼油厂和加拿大合成原油公司在其麦克默里堡升级厂使用流体焦化器。加拿大15%至20%的原油产量是在流化焦化厂加工的。使用流化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是通过更好地了解流化焦化工艺和开发新技术来改进流化焦化装置，这也是Syncrude Canada的共同愿景。实际目标是提高流化焦化装置的可操作性和液体产率，并减少重油改质的环境足迹。