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(11) | EP 0 202 099 A3 |
(12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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(54) | Process for treating heavy petroleum oil resids |
(57) Disclosed is a process for treating heavy petroleum oil resids to produce high yields
of useful oil products therefrom. The process comprises thermally cracking the heavy
petroleum oil resids under conditions more severethan visbreaking but less severe
than delayed coking while simultaneously subjecting said thermally cracking oil resids
to steam stripping to separate and recover cracked gases and light oil vapors. The
thermally-cracked heavy fluid resid recovered from the thermal cracking step then
is subjected to solvent extraction under temperature and pressure conditions in proximity
of the critical point of the solvent to separate and recover heavy metal containing
asphaltene-containing fractions and low metal oil products therefrom. , |