Kinetics and Modeling of Petroleum Residues Hydroprocessing

Modeling the performance of a bench-scale reactor sustaining HDS and HDM of heavy crude oil at moderate conditions

“…Similar values for activation energies and reaction orders are found in the literature [44]. Pre-exponential factors are 4.74 Â 10 8 (cm 3 /gs)(cm 3 /gmol) 0.3 and 5.27 Â 10 17 (cm 3 /g-s) (cm 3 /gmol) 1.3 respectively.…”

Comparison of kinetic and reactor models to simulate a trickle-bed bench-scale reactor for hydrodesulfurization of VGO

“…Also reports over the most common approaches to simulate the tricklebed reactor in which HDS is carried out have been summarized [4]. However it has been recognized that even when the vast literature reproduces reasonable well particular HDS process it is difficult to compare among several approaches the best reactor and kinetic model for the same process due to the incomplete experimental data [5].…”

“…Extensive reviews in the literature have appeared regarding hydrodesulfurization of model compounds, petroleum fractions, and heavy oils concerning the most important features associated to that process, that is kinetics and reactor modeling [2][3][4][5]. Also reports over the most common approaches to simulate the tricklebed reactor in which HDS is carried out have been summarized [4].…”

Catalytic Hydrocracking of a Bitumen‐Derived Asphaltene over NiMo/γ‐Al2O3 at Various Temperatures

“…According to literature, there is still increasing interest in this research field [13][14][15][16][17]. As is well known, asphaltenes play a key role in forming coke and deactivating the catalyst in bitumen hydroprocessing [18][19][20][21]. Pretreatment with paraffinic solvents to remove asphaltenes from bitumen residues [22,23] might eliminate the trouble makers in hydroprocessing of residues, but an appropriate way of utilizing asphaltenes still needed to be found.…”