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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1984
Herman H Woebcke, Barnstable, MA (US);
Swami Narayanan, Westwood, MA (US);
Axel R Johnson, North Babylon, NY (US);
Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for the cracking of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock comprising a pre-pyrolysis cracker for treating the feedstock at elevated temperatures and pressures; a primary separator for separating the effluent from the pre-pyrolysis cracker into a heavy fuel oil fraction and a treated heavy hydrocarbon fraction; a pyrolysis furnace having a convection section for preheating and two radiant sections for partially cracking the treated heavy hydrocarbon and cracking a light hydrocarbon feedstock, a DUOCRACKER for completely cracking the heavy fraction while quenching the light fraction and a quencher for quenching the composite stream from the DUOCRACKER.