National Technical Reports Library

The National Technical Information Service acquires, indexes, abstracts, and archives the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports in existence. The NTRL offers online, free and open access to these authenticated government technical reports. Technical reports and documents in its repository may be available online for free either from the issuing federal agency, the U.S. Government Publishing Office’s Federal Digital System website, or through search engines.

Details

Development of the Write Process for Pipeline-Ready Heavy Oil.

DE2009958564

Publication Date	2009
Personal Author	Brecher, L.; Mones, C.; Guffey, F.
Page Count	97
Abstract	Work completed under this program advances the goal of demonstrating Western Research Institutes (WRIs) WRITE process for upgrading heavy oil at field Energy Corporation (MEG) located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada supported efforts at WRI to develop the WRITE process as an oil sands, field-upgrading technology through this Task 51 Jointly Sponsored Research project. The project consisted of 6 tasks: (1) optimization of the distillate recovery unit (DRU), (2) demonstration and design of a continuous coker, (3) conceptual design and cost estimate for a commercial facility, (4) design of a WRITE pilot plant, (5) hydrotreating studies, and (6) establish a petroleum analysis laboratory.WRITE is a heavy oil and bitumen upgrading process that produces residuum-free, pipeline ready oil from heavy material with undiluted density and viscosity that exceed prevailing pipeline specifications. WRITE uses two processing stages to achieve low and high temperature conversion of heavy oil or bitumen. The first stage DRU operates at mild thermal cracking conditions, yielding a light overhead product and a heavy residuum or bottoms material. These bottoms flow to the second stage continuous coker that operates at severe pyrolysis conditions, yielding light pyrolyzate and coke. The combined pyrolyzate and mildly cracked overhead streams form WRITEs synthetic crude oil (SCO) production.
Keywords	Catalysts Petroleum Refining Bitumen Thermal cracking condition Pyrolysis condition Heavy oil Continuous coker
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors	Western Research Institute, Laramie, WY.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	201005
Contract Number	DE-FC26-98FT40323

Development of the Write Process for Pipeline-Ready Heavy Oil.

Development of the Write Process for Pipeline-Ready Heavy Oil.
DE2009958564

Publication Date	2009
Personal Author	Brecher, L.; Mones, C.; Guffey, F.
Page Count	97
Abstract	Work completed under this program advances the goal of demonstrating Western Research Institutes (WRIs) WRITE process for upgrading heavy oil at field Energy Corporation (MEG) located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada supported efforts at WRI to develop the WRITE process as an oil sands, field-upgrading technology through this Task 51 Jointly Sponsored Research project. The project consisted of 6 tasks: (1) optimization of the distillate recovery unit (DRU), (2) demonstration and design of a continuous coker, (3) conceptual design and cost estimate for a commercial facility, (4) design of a WRITE pilot plant, (5) hydrotreating studies, and (6) establish a petroleum analysis laboratory.WRITE is a heavy oil and bitumen upgrading process that produces residuum-free, pipeline ready oil from heavy material with undiluted density and viscosity that exceed prevailing pipeline specifications. WRITE uses two processing stages to achieve low and high temperature conversion of heavy oil or bitumen. The first stage DRU operates at mild thermal cracking conditions, yielding a light overhead product and a heavy residuum or bottoms material. These bottoms flow to the second stage continuous coker that operates at severe pyrolysis conditions, yielding light pyrolyzate and coke. The combined pyrolyzate and mildly cracked overhead streams form WRITEs synthetic crude oil (SCO) production.
Keywords	Catalysts Petroleum Refining Bitumen Thermal cracking condition Pyrolysis condition Heavy oil Continuous coker
Source Agency	Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors	Western Research Institute, Laramie, WY.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	201005
Contract Number	DE-FC26-98FT40323