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In fact, an increase on heavier feedstocks has already begun and will be a constant factor in the future.
However, peculiarities of the local petroleum industry have forced refiners to change the FCC process, first to adapt to increasingly heavier feedstocks derived from national crude oils, and subsequently to change the product slate to comply with market demand, requiring less motor gasoline, more diesel oil and light olefins for petrochemicals.
For propane and heavier feedstocks an isothermal profile at the upper temperature bound, with dips at the beginning and the middle of the reaction coordinate is optimal, while distribution of the hydrocarbon feed along the reactor coordinate results in higher yields.
Therefore, extra heat will have to be supplied into the regenerator by burning off added hydrocarbons or more coke would have to be produced by using suitable catalyst and heavier feedstocks as a solution for heat balancing the SCC.
Heavier feedstocks imply that larger, more aromatic molecules need to be cracked, which calls for improved accessibility and improved metals tolerance.
Apart from the conversion of heavier feedstocks, we have recently also seen an increased application of relatively light, paraffinic shale oil as the feedstock to the cracker.
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Therefore, stepwise structure design for the FCC catalyst is introduced for heavier feedstock conversion as shown in Fig. 4.
Another solution capable of handling the heavier feedstock is the Short Contact Time Resid Test, described by Imhof et al. MAT and its refinements (e.g. SCT-MAT and AUTOMAT) and ACE protocols can show ranking differences amongst each other, but also with pilot plant results.
Ebullated bed reactors are suitable for deeply converting heavy feedstocks such as residues.
The Chinese refinery has been facing problems caused by a variety of heavy feedstocks.
Ebullated-bed hydroconversion is an important industrial process for upgrading of heavy feedstocks such as residues.
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