Patent ID: 8999256
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: B01D,C10G

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for producing diesel from a hydrocarbon stream comprising: hydrotreating reactor; a hot separator for separating a hydrotreating effluent stream into a vaporous hot hydrotreating effluent stream in a hot separator overhead line and a liquid hot hydrotreating effluent stream in a hot separator bottoms line; a cold separator in direct communication with the hot separator overhead line for separating said vaporous hot hydrotreating effluent stream into a vaporous cold hydrotreating effluent stream and a liquid cold hydrotreating effluent stream in a cold separator bottoms line; a fractionation column in communication with said cold separator bottoms line; and a hydrocracking reactor in communication with said hot separator bottoms line for hydrocracking said liquid hot hydrotreating effluent stream.