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(11) EP 0 240 090 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
02.12.1987 Bulletin 1987/49

(43) Date of publication A2:
07.10.1987 Bulletin 1987/41

(21) Application number: 87200630

(22) Date of filing: 03.04.1987
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE CH DE ES FR GB IT LI NL SE

(30) Priority: 04.04.1986 GB 8608302

(71) Applicant: SHELL INTERNATIONALE RESEARCH MAATSCHAPPIJ B.V.
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(72) Inventors:
  • Breuker, Jacobus Hendrikus
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  • Van Gooswilligen, Gerrit
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  • Schellekens, Johannes Cornelis Antonius
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(54) Process for the preparation of bitumen


(57) Process for the preparation of bitumen in which a residual fraction of a thermally cracked hydrocarbon feedstock is distilled under subatmospheric pressure at a maximum distillation temperature that corresponds with the boiling point at the subatmospheric pressure of hydrocarbons having an atmospheric boiling point of 455-540°C and at least a part of the distillation residue is recovered as bitumen.





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