DCC

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Deep Catalytic Cracking (DCC)

Introduction
Deep Catalytic CrackingDCCis a catalytic conversion technology which uses heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks, such as VGO, VR or VGO blended with DAO to produce light olefins (ethylene, propylene and butylenes), LPG, gasoline, and middle distillates etc. The technology mainly targets maximizing production of propylene (DCC-) or maximizing production of isoolefins (DCC-). DCC process broke the limitation of conventional FCC process, and the propylene yield of DCC is 3-5 times of that of conventional FCC. The process scheme of DCC is similar to that of conventional FCC consisting of reaction-regeneration, fractionation and gas concentration sections. Feedstock dispersed with steam is fed to the system, then contacted with the hot regenerated catalyst either in a riser plus fluidized dense bed reactor (for DCC-) or in a riser reactor (for DCC-) and is catalytically cracked. Reactor effluent proceeds to the fractionation and gas concentration sections for stream separation and further recovery. The coke-deposited catalyst is stripped with steam and transferred to a regenerator where air is introduced and the coke on the catalyst is removed by combustion. The hot regenerated catalyst is returned to the reactor at a controlled circulation rate to achieve the heat balance of the system. naphtha and middle distillates streams from DCC unit can be used as blending components of high octane number commercial gasoline and fuel oil, respectively.

As employing specially designed and patented zeolite catalysts, the reaction temperature in DCC is higher than that of conventional FCC, but much lower than that of steam cracking.

Flexibility of process operation. Easy to obtain the shift of DCC operation modes by regulating the operating conditions and catalyst formulations.

Easy of separation and recovery of product streams through a similar absorption/ fractionation of conventional FCC. It is not necessary to use cryogenic separation of steam cracking for the separation and recovery of DCC product stream.

Impurity hydrocarbons are trace in DCC lighter olefin products, and hydrotreating is not needed.

Commercial Experience
The first commercial DCC unit was put into production in 1990, and ten DCC units have been licensed and the largest one among them is 4.50MMTA. It is estimated that there will be totally 13 units in operation by the end of 2010.

Features of Technology

Technological Services
Turn-key project or process design package can be provided as well as technical consulting, training and on-site services. And the related catalysts with their technical services can be offered separately. For more information contact SINOPEC TECH at: Tel: 0086-10-84275257 Fax: 0086-10-84271847 Website: www.sinopectech.com Email: g-technology@sinopec.com.cn

DCC has two reactor operating modes: DCC-I (Riser plus fluidized dense bed reactor, maximum propylene mode) and DCC-II (Riser reactor, maximum iso-olefins mode). DCC can process different heavy feeds (VGO, deasphalted oil, coker gas oil, atmospheric residue, vacuum residue, etc.), and paraffinic feedstocks are the best feeds for DCC. In DCC maximum propylene operation mode, over 20w% propylene yield can be obtained from paraffinic feedstocks. The

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