Direct crude oil cracking for producing chemicals: Thermal cracking modeling

[EN] The direct cracking of crude oil is an interesting option for producing cheaply large amounts of petrochemicals. This may be carried out with catalyst and equipment similar to that of catalytic cracking, but at a temperature range between that of standard catalytic cracking and steam cracking. Thermal cracking will play a role in the conversion, but is rarely disclosed in experimental or modeling work. Thus, a crude oil and its fractions were thermally cracked and the products yields were modeled using a 9 lumps cracking scheme. It was found that heavy fraction cracks twice as fast as diesel fraction and ten times faster than gasoline fraction, with activation energies in the 140-200 kJ/mol range. Selectivity to ethylene, propylene and butenes were found similar in the operating range explored.The authors thank Saudi Aramco for its material and financial support. Financial support by the Spanish Government-MINECO through programs "Severo Ochoa" (SEV 2012-0267) and CTQ2015-70126-R and by the Generalitat Valenciana through the Prometeo program (PROMETEOII/2013/011) is also acknowledged.Corma Canós, A.; Sauvanaud, LL.; Mathieu, Y.; Al-Bogami, S.; Bourane, A.; Al-Ghrami, M. (2018). Direct crude oil cracking for producing chemicals: Thermal cracking modeling. Fuel. 211:726-736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2017.09.099S72673621

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