Journal
FUEL
Volume 211, Issue -, Pages 726-736Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2017.09.099
Keywords
Crude oil; Thermal cracking; Modeling
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Funding
- Saudi Aramco
- Spanish Government-MINECO [SEV 2012-0267, CTQ2015-70126-R]
- Generalitat Valenciana [PROMETEOII/2013/011]
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The direct cracking of crude oil is an interesting option for producing cheaply large amounts of petrochemicals. This may be carried out with catalyst and equipment similar to that of catalytic cracking, but at a temperature range between that of standard catalytic cracking and steam cracking. Thermal cracking will play a role in the conversion, but is rarely disclosed in experimental or modeling work. Thus, a crude oil and its fractions were thermally cracked and the products yields were modeled using a 9 lumps cracking scheme. It was found that heavy fraction cracks twice as fast as diesel fraction and ten times faster than gasoline fraction, with activation energies in the 140-200 kJ/mol range. Selectivity to ethylene, propylene and butenes were found similar in the operating range explored.
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