A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon-based composition that includes combining a supercritical water stream with a pressurized, heated hydrocarbon-based composition in a mixing device to create a combined feed stream. The combined feed stream is introduced into a supercritical upgrading reactor to at least partially convert the combined feed stream to an upgraded product. The process includes separating the upgraded product to produce a light fraction and a heavy fraction, and separating the light fraction in the gas/oil/water separator to produce a gas fraction, a liquid oil fraction, and a first water fraction; combining the heavy fraction with at least a portion of one of the liquid oil fraction or the first water fraction to form a diluted heavy fraction; and passing the diluted heavy fraction from the flash drum to a demulsifier mixer to form a demulsified heavy fraction.

A molecular separation method can include: passing a deasphalted oil stream through a reactor containing an active substrate, wherein the catalytic active substrate adsorbs heteroatom species from the deasphalted oil stream and produces a pretreated hydrocarbon feed stream essentially free of 4+ ring aromatic molecules (ARC 4+ species), metal species, and heteroatom species; and chromatographically separating with a simulated moving bed apparatus or a true moving bed apparatus (SMB/TMB) the pretreated hydrocarbon feed stream into a saturate fraction and an aromatics fraction.

Methods of processing bio-based material feed (“bio-feed”) and a petroleum feed, using combinations of hydrotreating beds, dewaxing beds, post-treatment beds, and liquid quenching zones. Some methods comprise processing the petroleum feed through first hydrotreating reactor beds; then processing the output with a bio-feed together through second hydrotreating reactor beds; then processing the output through the plurality of dewaxing beds to create a dewaxed stream; and, processing the dewaxed stream through the plurality of post-treatment beds to create a product stream. Other methods comprise processing the petroleum feed through the plurality of first hydrotreating reactor beds; then processing the output through the plurality of dewaxing beds to create a dewaxed stream; and, processing the dewaxed stream and the bio-feed together through the plurality of liquid quenching beds zones to create a mixed stream; and, processing the mixed stream through the plurality of post-treatment beds to create a product stream.

Deep hydrotreating of fluid catalytic cracker cycle oil streams is used to produce lower cost Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC) for use in large scale liquid batteries and other applications employing hydrogen or requiring a source of labile hydrogen. Coprocessing of bio-feedstocks in a fluid catalytic cracking process is used to further provide lower cost materials and methods involving enhanced carbon-neutral applications of LOHC systems in large scale liquid batteries as well as in mobile applications including trucking, shipping, trains, and aviation employing LOHC products.

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and processes for producing olefins and/or dienes. The systems and processes may include thermally cracking a C1-C4 hydrocarbon containing feed to produce a cracked hydrocarbon effluent containing a mixture of olefins and paraffins. The systems and processes may also include dehydrogenating the cracked hydrocarbon effluent to produce a dehydrogenated hydrocarbon effluent containing additional olefins and/or dienes.

Ionic liquid containing compositions may be used in the production, recovery and refining of oil and gas. In addition, they may be used to treat cooling water and/or to inhibit and/or prevent corrosion of metals.

Systems and methods are provided for performing ethane steam cracking at elevated coil inlet pressures and/or elevated coil outlet pressures in small diameter furnace coils. Instead of performing steam cracking of ethane at a coil outlet pressure of ˜22 psig or less (˜150 kPa-g or less), the steam cracking of ethane can be performed in small diameter furnace coils at a coil outlet pressure of 30 psig to 75 psig (˜200 kPa-g to ˜520 kPa-g), or 40 psig to 75 psig (˜270 kPa-g to ˜520 kPa-g). In order to achieve such higher coil outlet pressures, a correspondingly higher coil inlet pressure can also be used, such as a pressure of 45 psig (˜310 kPa-g) or more, or 50 psig (˜340 kPa-g) or more.

A process and a system are used for production of multiple grades of ultralow aromatic solvents/chemicals having preferred boiling range, flash point and viscosity from different hydrocarbon streams. A plurality of hydrotreating steps are used to hydrotreat a plurality of hydrocarbon feedstocks in the presence of a hydrogen gas stream and a catalyst system. Further, at least one dissolved gas stripping step, at least one adsorption step, and a distillation step are included in the process. Desired iso-paraffin molecules are thereby preserved, and the undesired aromatic molecules are converted into desired naphthene molecules.

Ionic liquid containing compositions may be used in the production, recovery and refining of oil and gas. In addition, they may be used to treat wastewater and/or to inhibit and/or prevent fouling of contaminants onto surfaces.

According to embodiments, a process for aromatizing hydrocarbons may include contacting the hydrocarbons with a zinc- or gallium-doped ZSM-5 catalyst having a mesopore volume of greater than 0.09 cm.sup.3/g. Contacting the hydrocarbons with the catalyst causes a least a portion of the hydrocarbons to undergo chemical reactions to form aromatic hydrocarbons.