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Cracking Tutorial

This document discusses catalytic cracking and hydrocracking processes in a petroleum refinery. It provides 7 problems related to material and hydrogen balances for different refinery units processing various feedstocks. The problems calculate items like conversion levels, product yields, hydrogen consumption, and material flows.

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Cracking Tutorial

This document discusses catalytic cracking and hydrocracking processes in a petroleum refinery. It provides 7 problems related to material and hydrogen balances for different refinery units processing various feedstocks. The problems calculate items like conversion levels, product yields, hydrogen consumption, and material flows.

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PETROLEUM REFINERY ENGINEERING (CHL 794) DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, IITD TUTORIAL SHEET - 9 CATALYTIC CRACKING AND HYDROCRACKING

1. For a 27 deg. API catalytic cracker feedstock with a boiling range of 650 to 900 deg.F and a sulfur content of 1.2% by weight, make an overall weight and volume material balance for 10000 BPD feed rate when operating at a 65% conversion level and a once-through operation with zeolite catalyst. 2. If the catalytic gas oil produced in problem 1 is recycled to extinction (no products heavier than kerosene or No.1 fuel oil are withdrawn from the unit), how much will gasoline production be increased? Coke laydown? 3. For the following conditions, calculate the (a) wt% hydrogen in coke, (b) coke yield, and (c) catalystto-oil ratio. Carbon on spent catalyst: 1.50 wt% Carbon on regenerated catalyst: 0.80 wt% Air from blower: 155,000 lb/hr Hydrocarbon feed to reactor: 295,000 lb/hr 4. A hydrocracker feedstock has a boiling range of 650 to 920 deg. F (343 to 495 deg.C) and an API gravity of 23.7 deg., and contains 1.7 wt% sulfur. If the hydrocracking hydrogen consumption is 1500 scf/bbl of feed and the feed rate is 7500 BPSD, determine (a) total hydrogen consumption, (b) barrels of gasoline, and (c) barrels of jet fuel produced per day. 5. For the feedstock and under the conditions of problem 4, estimate the characterization factors of the gasoline and jet fuel fractions produced by the hydrocracker. 6. Make an overall material balance, including a hydrogen balance for a 10,000 BPSD hydrocracker with a 26.5 deg. API feedstock having a characterization factor of 12.1 and containing 0.7% sulfur, 0.3% nitrogen, and 0.15% oxygen by weight. The hydrocracking hydrogen consumption is 2000 scf/bbl of feed. 7. Calculate the total hydrogen consumption for hydrocracking 10,000 BPSD of 24 deg. API, 617 to 950 deg.F boiling range feedstock containing 0.45% sulfur, 0.18% nitrogen, and 0.11% oxygen by weight to a total gasoline liquid product.

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