Technology of Petroleum Needle Coke Production in Processing of Decantoil with the Use of Polystyrene as a Polymeric Mesogen Additive.

The results of experimental investigations on the coking of decanted heavy gasoil of catalytic cracking with polystyrene in a certain concentration range to obtain petroleum needle coke with the most developed string-base anisotropic structure and a microstructure point of at least 6.2 corresponding to the super-premium grade are presented. Certain regularities have been established to improve the structural quality index of the resulting needle coke from the optimal content of polystyrene in the base raw material, including the extreme dependence of the quality indices of needle coke on the polystyrene content (10 wt %). The decrease in the quality indices of the obtained carbon material is a consequence of uncontrolled changes toward an increase in the system viscosity performance (the viscosity increases 2.7 times). The experimentally obtained coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of needle coke-synthesized samples within the temperature range of 40-500 °C showed a reducing trend in CTE depending on the polymer additive proportion in the feedstock; for example, at 300 °C, the CTE decreases to 5.732 × 10-6 °C-1.

Technology of Producing Petroleum Coking Additives to Replace Coking Coal.

Coke chemical companies often have a deficit of coals of particularly valuable grades, the coking coals. This work studies the opportunity of producing petroleum coking additives using delayed coking during heavy petroleum residue processing. Experiments for the production of a carbon material were conducted using three kinds of heavy petroleum residues of the oil refinery plant Ltd Kinef: the vacuum residue from crude atmospheric and vacuum distillation units (VR1), the vacuum residue from the vacuum distillation hydrocracking unit (VR2), and the visbreaker residue from the visbreaking unit (VR3). For the produced carbon material, the quality indicators were determined, and X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric, and differential thermal analyses were conducted. The petroleum coking additive produced instead of the typical petroleum coke under a milder temperature regime had the required quality indicators, particularly, the volatile-matter yield within the range from 15 to 25 wt %, to be used in metallurgical production for partial replacement of coking coals in the charge to produce metallurgical coke.