Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Nepal Vishwakarma

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar

Debasis Bhattacharyya

Madhusudan Sau

Sanjiv Kumar Mazumdar

Ganesh Vitthalrao Butley

Sarvesh Kumar

Mainak Sarkar

Ramesh Karumanchi

Pravesh Kumar

Darshankumar Manubhai Dave

Kamal Kumar

The present invention relates to a hydrocracking reactor system and a process utilizing the same for upgrading heavy hydrocarbonaceous material to value-added products. Accordingly, an aspect of the present invention includes dispersing a liquid feedstock pre-mixed with a catalyst from top of a reactor vessel to obtain dispersed droplets having a predetermined droplet size less than 500 &#x3bc;m, introducing a gaseous feed comprising primarily of hydrogen from bottom of the reactor vessel to form a continuous gaseous phase throughout a cross-section of the reactor vessel, and allowing the dispersed droplets to contact the continuous gaseous phase throughout the cross-section of the reactor vessel to form reaction effluent comprising one or more lighter product hydrocarbons. The method may further include removing at least a top portion and at least a bottom portion of the reaction effluent from the reactor vessel.

Reactor system and process for upgrading heavy hydrocarbonaceous material

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Faridabad, India

Nepal Vishwakarma