Nova Chemicals (international) S.a.

Universitãt Stuttgart

Veba Oil Refining and Petrochemicals Gmbh

Jens Weitkamp

Yvonne Traa

Vasily Simanzhenkov

Michael C Oballa

Franz Fuder

Roger Gläser

Werner Doehler

Juergen Laege

Andreas Raichle

Fehime Demir

Hilmar Bischof

Less conventional sources of hydrocarbon feedstocks such as oil sands, tar sands and shale oils are being exploited. These feedstocks generate a larger amount of heavy oil, gas oil, asphaltene products and the like containing multiple fused aromatic ring compounds. These multiple fused aromatic ring compounds can be converted into feed for a hydrocarbon cracker by first hydrogenating at least one ring in the compounds and subjecting the resulting compound to a ring opening and cleavage reaction. The resulting product comprises lower paraffins suitable for feed to a cracker, higher paraffins suitable for example as a gasoline fraction and mono aromatic ring compounds (e.g. BTX) that may be further treated.

Aromatic saturation and ring opening process

The invention relates to a method for the production of n-alkanes from mineral oil fractions and fractions from thermal or catalytic conversion plants, containing cyclic alkanes, alkenes, cyclic alkenes and/or aromatics. The invention further relates to a catalyst for carrying out said method.

Method for production of n-alkanes from mineral oil fractions and catalyst for carrying out said method

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Horb a.N., Germany

Jens Weitkamp