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AM-94-24 Rose Asphaltenes, a Fuel with a Future

Syamal K. Poddar, Study Manager, R. Ragsdale, Refining Technology Manager, R.F. Geosits Program Manager, Coal Gasification, Bechtel Corporation and Richard L. Hood, Manager and K.Z. Lynch, Senior Processing Engineer, ROSE Licensing Kerr-McGee Refining Cor

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A need for cleaner transportation fuels and a reduction in the use of high sulfur fuel oil have evolved over the years due to strict environmental regulations coupled with worldwide environmental awareness by both energy producers and users. This shift in demand was aggravated by crude oil becoming heavier and higher in sulfur content. In order to counter balance this shift, appropriate upgrading of crude and bottom-of-the-barrel conversion are becoming a necessity of the refining industry. One of the cost effective ways to accomplish the bottom-of-the-barrel conversion is to utilize Kerr-McGee’s Residuum Oil Supercritical Extraction (ROSE”) technology. ROSE being a deasphalting process, produces asphaltene and an upgradable oil product. It is needless to mention that the innovative utilization of the ROSE products, particularly asphaltenes, plays a very important role in the overall economics of the ROSE process. The paper introduces the salient features of the various upgrading processes and discusses ROSE process in particular. 0 Besides conventional applications like paving grade and roofing grade asphalts or as binders for briquettes formed from coal dust, fly ash or wood products, there are applications of asphaltenes as fuel. This paper describes specifically the application of asphaltenes as fuel. This paper also highlights the application of asphaltenes in power generation and discusses the relative economics of power generation options along with the overall impact on bottomof- the-barrel upgrading.

Product Details:

Product ID: AM-94-24
Publication Year: 1994