Secondary Processing

Keywords:
 Petroleum
 Fluid coking
 Delayed coking
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coal laboratory – 2023 – Energy Engineering Department @ EF – KU

 coking

 Coking is the heating of coal in the

absence of oxygen to a temperature
above 600 C* to drive off the volatile
components of the raw coal, leaving a
hard strong porous material of high
carbon content is called coke it

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 Petroleum coking

 Petroleum coke , abbreviated coke or petcoke, Petroleum coke

is a high carbon coal like material.
 The process is actually a severe thermal cracking which
completely converts the petroleum residues into coke and
lighter product.

 There are two

basic forms of
3 coking.
1. Fluid coking
2. Delayed coking

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 Fluid coking

 What is fluid coking

means?

 Fluid coke is made in

continuous process in
which heated feedstocks
are sprayed into a fluidized
bed of hot 500C* coke
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particles This process
produces a significant
amount of naphtha and
diesel products.
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 Delayed coking

 Delayed coking is a thermal

cracking process used in
petroleum refineries to
upgrade and convert
petroleum residuum
(bottom from vacuum
distillation of crude oil)
into liquid and gas product
5 streams leaving behind
soild concentrated carbon
material –petroleum

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 What is the different between fluid and delayed coking.

 Fluid coking can

process heavier
VDR and gives a
higher distillate
yield then delayed
coking .

coal laboratory – 2023 – Energy Engineering Department @ EF – KU