A new generic reaction for modeling fluid catalytic cracking risers

doi:10.1016/j.cjche.2017.01.006

Abstract

Abstract: A new generic reaction in the form of PC_i → PC_m +[i,m] → PC_m + λ_i,m coke + surplusage has been proposed for describing the catalytic cracking behavior of petroleum narrow cuts or pseudo-components (PCs), where the rate constant formula is derived from the transition state theory and the coking amount is correlated to the properties of the intermediate substance[i,m]. In composing the cracking reaction network for feedstock and product oils, only the product PC_m of the proposed generic reaction is used, which together with a criterion for excluding exothermic reactions, distinctly reduces the number of reactions in the network. With the proposed cracking reaction scheme coupled with special pseudo-components, a predictive one-dimensional steady state model for fluid catalytic cracking risers is formulated in the sense that for a given riser and given catalyst, the model parameters are independent of stock oils, product schemes and other operational conditions. The great correlating and predicting capability of the resulted model is tested with production data in different scenarios of four commercial risers.

Key words: Fluid catalytic cracking riser, Kinetic modeling, Pseudo-component, Petroleum, Steady state model, Parameter estimation

摘要： A new generic reaction in the form of PC_i → PC_m +[i,m] → PC_m + λ_i,m coke + surplusage has been proposed for describing the catalytic cracking behavior of petroleum narrow cuts or pseudo-components (PCs), where the rate constant formula is derived from the transition state theory and the coking amount is correlated to the properties of the intermediate substance[i,m]. In composing the cracking reaction network for feedstock and product oils, only the product PC_m of the proposed generic reaction is used, which together with a criterion for excluding exothermic reactions, distinctly reduces the number of reactions in the network. With the proposed cracking reaction scheme coupled with special pseudo-components, a predictive one-dimensional steady state model for fluid catalytic cracking risers is formulated in the sense that for a given riser and given catalyst, the model parameters are independent of stock oils, product schemes and other operational conditions. The great correlating and predicting capability of the resulted model is tested with production data in different scenarios of four commercial risers.

关键词: Fluid catalytic cracking riser, Kinetic modeling, Pseudo-component, Petroleum, Steady state model, Parameter estimation

Yong Li, Jizheng Chu, Jiarui Zhang. A new generic reaction for modeling fluid catalytic cracking risers[J]. , 2017, 25(10): 1449-1460.

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