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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2020
Lummus Technology Llc, Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Saudi Aramco Technologies Company, Dhahran, SA;
Dennis Maloney, Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Kandasamy Sundaram, Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Raghu Narayan, Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Abdul Rahman Zafer Akhras, Dhahran, SA;
Lummus Technology LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Saudi Aramco Technologies Company, Dhahran, SA;
Abstract
A process for steam cracking a whole crude including a volatilization step performed to maintain a relatively large hydrocarbon droplet size. The process may include contacting a whole crude with steam to volatilize a portion of the hydrocarbons, wherein the contacting of the hydrocarbon feedstock and steam is conducted at an initial relative velocity of less than 30 m/s, for example. The resulting vapor phase, including volatilized hydrocarbons and steam may then be separated from a liquid phase comprising unvaporized hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons in the vapor phase may then be forwarded to a steam pyrolysis reactor for steam cracking of the hydrocarbons in the vapor phase.