Patent ID: 11898107
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  B | IPC B  C

Claim 0:
1. A method for processing a hydrocarbon feedstock, the method comprising:
contacting the hydrocarbon feedstock and a product emulsion with supercritical carbon dioxide in a supercritical carbon dioxide extraction unit to form at least an extract emulsion and a pitch emulsion;
contacting at least a portion of the pitch emulsion with supercritical water in a supercritical water gasification unit to form a gasified product;
separating the gasified product into at least a product gas and the product emulsion, the product emulsion comprising water and one or more hydrocarbons; and
recycling at least a portion of the product emulsion to the supercritical carbon dioxide extraction unit, wherein contacting the product emulsion with the supercritical carbon dioxide breaks at least a portion of the product emulsion.