Patent ID: 9156691
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: C01B,C07C,C10G,C10J,C10K,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A process for upgrading or refining heavy oil or bitumen to formulate synthesized hydrocarbons, and for co-producing chemical products from by-products of the upgrading or refining process, comprising: (a) forming a non-distilled bottom fraction from a source of heavy oil or bitumen feedstock (b) feeding said bottom fraction to a syngas generating circuit for formulating a hydrogen lean syngas stream via a non-catalytic partial oxidation reaction, wherein said hydrogen lean syngas stream has a hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratio of less than 1:1; (c) providing a first hydrogen rich syngas stream from a syngas generator, wherein the first hydrogen rich syngas stream has H (d) subjecting a portion of said first hydrogen rich syngas stream to a hydrogen separator unit to provide a purified hydrogen by-product stream and a second hydrogen rich syngas stream, wherein the second hydrogen rich syngas stream has H (e) combining said hydrogen lean syngas stream with a portion of the first and/or second hydrogen rich syngas streams to form an optimum hydrogen rich syngas stream having H (f) reacting said optimum hydrogen rich syngas stream in a Fischer-Tropsch reactor to formulate synthesized hydrocarbons and Fischer Tropsch vapours; (g) subjecting at least a portion of said hydrogen lean syngas stream, said first hydrogen rich syngas stream, said second hydrogen rich syngas stream, said Fischer Tropsch vapours or a combination thereof, to a carbon dioxide removal operation to obtain one or more carbon dioxide by-product streams; and (h) converting near 100% of the carbon of said carbon dioxide by-product stream into said chemical co-products.