AM-98-19 A POST AUDIT OF THE NEW MOBILA4.W. KELLOGG CYCLOF1AV3.M THIRD STAGE SEPARATOR

Description:

Last year, the Mobil Technology Company and the M.W. Kellogg Company jointly introduced a “New Third Stage Separator” called CycZoFirzesTM to the industry (1,2,3,4). This paper will briefly review some of the issues leading up to our decision to jointly develop the CycloFines separator. We will also highlight some of the major findings of the development program, and most importantly we will discuss the commercialization of those findings. The commercialization step was successfully completed with the start up of Mobil’s new FCC unit at its’ Altona Refinery in Victoria, Australia. The FCC unit and the CycZoFines third stage separator, which were designed by Kellogg and built by Toyo Engineering, were commissioned in September of 1997 and have been running smoothly since then. The FCC unit is designed to initially process 24 TBD of an atmospheric resid, which is primarily derived from Gippsland crude. In anticipation of a future refinery expansion, all the major vessels and rotating machinery have been designed to be expandable to operation on a 4 wt.% CCR resid basis at 35 TBD. This includes the new Mobil/Kellogg CycZoFines third stage separator (TSS).