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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2007
James N. Mccoy, Houston, TX (US);
Paul F. Keusenkothen, Houston, TX (US);
Alok Srivastava, Allsworth Park, SG;
James E Graham, Baytown, TX (US);
James N. McCoy, Houston, TX (US);
Paul F. Keusenkothen, Houston, TX (US);
Alok Srivastava, Allsworth Park, SG;
James E Graham, Baytown, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed to a process wherein a feedstock or stream comprising steam cracker tar is passed to a vacuum pipestill. A deasphalted cut of tar is obtained as an overhead (or sidestream) and a heavy tar asphaltenic product is obtained as bottoms. In preferred embodiments, at least a portion of the bottoms product is sent to a partial oxidation unit (POX) wherein syn gas may be obtained as a product, and/or at least a portion of the bottoms product is used to produce a light product stream in a coker unit, such as coker naphtha and/or or coker gas oil. In another preferred embodiment at least a portion of the overheads product is added to refinery fuel oil pools and in yet another preferred embodiment at least a portion of the overheads product is mixed with locally combusted materials to lower soot make. Two or more of the aforementioned preferred embodiments may be combined.