UPGRADATION OF LIGHT CYCLE OIL FOR VALUE ADDITION
IR@IIP: CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun
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Nautiyal,B.R
Khanna,M.K Nanoti,S.M Prasad,Guru Paul,Dharam Garg,M.O |
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2010-05-17T06:54:38Z
2010-05-17T06:54:38Z 2010-05-17T06:54:38Z |
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Proceedings of PETROTECH-2003,January 9-12, 2003, New Delhi
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/570 |
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Light Cycle Oil (LCO) is a product from catalytic cracking of vacuum gas oil. It is normally high in
sulfur, nitrogen and particularly in aromatic content. The boiling range of LCO falls in the range of
diesel and is used as blending component in diesel pool. There are two options to upgrade the
LCO to meet Bharat III and IV specifications; viz, hydrotreating and extraction. Hydrotreating
alone will not be sufficient to upgrade LCO, since being rich in multi-ring aromatics, it will
inherently produce fuel with very low cetane Index. On the other hand using extraction it is
possible to reduce these aromatics making it higher in cetane and lower in sulphur content.
Moreover, extract hydrocarbons recovered are rich in naphthalene, which are in great demand in
the chemical industry for making insecticides, drugs, dyes, ink and precursors.
In this study, we have generated mass transfer data and established that treated LCO is high in
cetane Index and low in sulphur. Simultaneously, we have tried to establish BMCI value of extract
hydrocarbons, which ranges from 100- 110. Since the extract hydrocarbons contain 70-80%
naphthalenes, these could be very good source for naphthalene production.
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en_US
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LCO
Extraction Sulpholane |
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| Title |
UPGRADATION OF LIGHT CYCLE OIL FOR VALUE ADDITION
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Article
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