Patent ID: 11896963
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C | IPC B  C

Claim 19:
20. A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed, the process comprising: contacting the hydrocarbon feed with steam in the presence of a cracking catalyst at reaction conditions sufficient to cause at least a portion of hydrocarbons in the hydrocarbon feed to undergo one or more cracking reactions to produce a steam catalytic cracking effluent comprising light olefins, light aromatic compounds, or both, where:
the light olefins are selected from the group consisting of ethylene, propylene, butenes, and combinations thereof,
the light aromatic compounds are selected from the group consisting of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes, and combinations thereof,
the cracking catalyst consists essentially of a hierarchical mesoporous ZSM-5 zeolite; and
the hydrocarbon feed comprises a whole crude oil having an API gravity between 25 and 50.