Description of Heavy Oil Upgrader E-HOG
Description of EQ Heavy Oil Upgrader The prototype heavy oil upgrader (HOG) shown in the attached schematic is fed with heavy crude oil that is 50% asphaltenes.
Prototype Installation
(New Hydrocracking Technology)
The crude contains salt water and small amounts of solids. To remove the salt water and solids, the crude is heated to about 200°C which causes the water and solids to drop out of the oil. The material is removed by the fresh water circuit shown at the front of the process.
Prototype Installation
(Predistillation Technology)
Once the water and solids are removed the crude is passed through a membrane separation process where the asphaltenes are separated from the lighter crude oil.The pure asphaltenes form small crystals which in volume behave much like a low viscosity liquid. The two separate streams are first sent to what we at Energy Quest call the Cracking Process (CP) which is a chemical-magnetic induced process. The CP process will be operated differently for the two streams.
Once the asphaltenes and heavy oil have been partially cracked by the CP process, they are sent to the next cracking process which has great control on the type of hydrocarbon formed. We at Energy Quest call the second ultrasound upgrader the HOG. The 10 step HOG followed by the 4 step HOG produces a finished product that only has to be separated by distillation.
The 10 step HOG allows the operator to control the paraffin-olefin-naphtha-aromatic (PONA) ratio of the products produced. The 4 step HOG allows the operator to control the purity of the products by eliminating sulfur, nitrogen and oxygen.
The key points of this process is that it converts low cost heavy oil into valuable light oil, the process operates at low pressure, low temperatures and requires no catalyst, the footprint is small and compact as compared to any other current method of refining or heavy oil upgrading today.
Our heavy oil upgrading process (HOG) is unsurpassed by any in the world.