A process for catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon oils includes the step of contacting a hydrocarbon oil feedstock with a catalytic cracking catalyst in a reactor comprising a dilute-phase transport fluidized bed and a fast fluidized bed connected in series for reaction. In the fast fluidized bed, the axial solid fraction c of the catalyst is controlled within the range of about 0.1 to about 0.2. When used for catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon oil feedstocks, particularly heavy feedstock oils, the process and system show lower yields of dry gas and coke, and good product distribution.

System and method for producing olefins are disclosed. The method includes using a radial flow moving bed reactor system to catalytically crack paraffins, in multiple stages with continuous catalyst regeneration, to form olefins. The system includes inter-stage heaters to facilitate increase in yield of olefins.

A process plant and a process for production of a hydrocarbon fraction suitable for use as jet fuel from a feedstock being a renewable feedstock or an oxygenate feedstock, including combining the feedstock with an amount of a hydrocracked intermediate product and optionally an additional liquid diluent, to form a combined feedstock, directing the combined feedstock to contact a material catalytically active in hydrodeoxygenation under hydrotreating conditions to provide a hydrodeoxygenated intermediate product, separating the hydrodeoxygenated intermediate product in at least two fractions; a vapor fraction and a liquid fraction, directing at least an amount of the liquid fraction to contact a material catalytically active in isomerization under isomerization conditions to provide an isomerized intermediate product, fractionating said isomerized intermediate product to provide at least a hydrocarbon suitable for use as jet fuel and a bottom fraction, hydrocracking the bottom fraction to provide the hydrocracked intermediate product.

A process plant and a process for production of a hydrocarbon fraction suitable for use as jet fuel from an oxygenate feedstock, which may be a feedstock being a renewable feedstock, including combining the feedstock with a diluent hydrocarbon stream to form a hydrotreatment feed stream to contact a material catalytically active in hydrotreatment under hydrotreating conditions to provide a hydrotreated intermediate product, directing at least an amount of said hydrotreated intermediate product to contact a material catalytically active in hydrocracking under hydrocracking conditions to provide a hydrocracked intermediate product, separating the hydrocracked intermediate product in a hydrocracked intermediate liquid fraction and a gaseous fraction, directing at least an amount of said hydrocracked intermediate liquid fraction to contact a material catalytically active in hydrodearomatization under hydrodearomatization conditions to provide a treated product comprising the hydrocarbon fraction suitable for use as jet fuel.

A process plant and a process for production of a hydrocarbon suitable for use as jet fuel from a feedstock being a renewable feedstock or an oxygenate feedstock, including combining the renewable feedstock with an amount of a hydrocracked intermediate product, directing it to contact a material catalytically active in hydrodeoxygenation under hydrodeoxygenation conditions to provide a hydrodeoxygenated intermediate product, fractionating the hydrodeoxygenated intermediate product in at least two fractions including a first fraction of which at least 90% boils below a defined boiling point and a second fraction of which at least 90% boils above the defined boiling point, directing at least an amount of the second fraction to contact a material catalytically active in hydrocracking under hydrocracking conditions to provide the hydrocracked intermediate product, the process being suited for efficiently converting the upper-boiling point of an oxygenate feedstock such as a renewable feedstocks to a lower boiling product.

A process plant and a process for production of a hydrocarbon suitable for use as jet fuel from a feedstock being a renewable feedstock or an oxygenate feedstock, including combining the feedstock with an amount of a liquid diluent, directing it to contact a material catalytically active in hydrodeoxygenation under hydrotreating conditions to provide a hydrodeoxygenated intermediate product, directing at least an amount of the hydrodeoxygenated intermediate product to contact a material catalytically active in hydrocracking under hydrocracking conditions providing the hydrocracked intermediate product, separating the hydrocracked intermediate product in a vapor fraction and a liquid fraction, directing at least an amount of the liquid hydrocracked product to contact a material catalytically active in isomerization under isomerization conditions to provide an isomerized intermediate product, and fractionating the isomerized intermediate product to provide at least a hydrocarbon suitable for use as jet fuel.

A method of hydroprocessing is performed wherein non-petroleum feedstocks, such as those containing from about 10% or more olefinic compounds or heteroatom contaminants by weight, are treated in a first reaction zone to provide reaction products. The process involves introducing the feedstock along with diluents or a recycle and hydrogen in a first reaction zone and allowing the feed and hydrogen to react in a liquid phase within the first reaction zone to produce reaction products. The reaction products are cooled and/or water is removed from the reaction products. At least a portion of the cooled and/or separated reaction product are introduced as a feed along with hydrogen into a second reaction zone containing a hydroprocessing catalyst. The feed and hydrogen are allowed to react in a liquid phase within the second reaction zone to produce a second-reaction-zone reaction product.

A method for processing bitumen froth comprised of bitumen, water and solids to produce a final diluted bitumen product having a reduced water content is provided whereby demulsifier is added to the bitumen froth after a first separation stage and prior to a second separation stage to produce the final diluted bitumen product having reduced water content.

The present application provides a method for bitumen froth treatment in the transition region between coalescence and agglomeration. The method involves separating diluted bitumen product from a bitumen froth mixture, comprising the bitumen, water and mineral solids, the method comprising: (a) combining the mixture with a solvent blend to obtain a combination having a ratio of said solvent blend to the bitumen of about 1.0-1.6 by mass, wherein said solvent blend comprises from 2.2-4.5 (±0.2) wt % aromatic solvent or from 70-80 (±10) wt % paraffinic solvent; (b) mixing the combination; and (c) separating the diluted bitumen product from the water and mineral solids.

A process for hydrotreating a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon feedstock may include producing a hydrotreated effluent by hydrotreating the feedstock in a three-phase trickle reactor to remove a first portion of the sulfur from the feedstock, separating the first hydrotreated effluent to give a hydrogen-containing gaseous fraction and a separated hydrotreated effluent, stripping the separated hydrotreated effluent to give a hydrogen sulfide-containing gaseous fraction and a stripped hydrotreated effluent, saturating the stripped hydrotreated effluent with hydrogen, and hydrotreating the hydrogen-saturated effluent in a two-phase reactor to remove a remaining second portion of the sulfur and produce a second hydrotreated effluent.