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VGO Hydrotreating – Mild Hydrocracking

VGO hydrotreating applies to different feeds, coming either directly from the vacuum distillation or from conversion processes (visbreaking, coking,...). The main goal is to prepare adequate feeds for further conversion units, generally fluidized catalytic crackers (FCC) or hydrocracking, mainly by reducing sulfur and nitrogen contents.

The market changes affect refinery configurations. Mild hydrocracking technology allows refiners to convert 20-60% of the VGO feeds, produce high quality cat cracker feedstocks along with a certain quantity of middle distillates.
VGO Hydrotreating – Mild Hydrocracking

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Axens VGO hydrotreating and Mild hydrocracking technologies are well established with over 60 units licensed worldwide.

VGO hydrotreating provides some remarkable improvements in FCC operations thanks to hydrogen addition in hydrotreated VGO. Mild hydrocracking increases the VGO conversion to 20%-60% and produce middle distillates along with hydrotreated VGO. VGO hydrotreating and Mild hydrocracking units are operated under relatively mild conditions and producing naphtha, diesel as well as VGO feed to downstream cracking unit.

Depending on unit severity, the diesel cut may require further hydrotreatment. Due to its aromatics and organic-nitrogen contents, it is more refractory to additional hydrotreating than straight-run diesel. This has led to the commercialization of the HyC-10 process, which meets the ULSD challenge.

VGO Hydrotreating/Mild Hydrocracking

The addition of VGO hydrotreating or mild hydrocracking units (MHC) upstream of the FCC can be an economically attractive solution to help to adapt overall FCC performance in terms of product slate, product qualities and FCC regenerator SOx and NOx emissions. Hydrotreated FCC feeds have less sulfur and higher H-to-C ratios. This in turn leads to greater volumes and better quality FCC gasoline.

More than 60 units have already been licensed
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HyC-10™

In HyC-10™, the mild hydrocracking units (MHC) diesel receives the entire H2 make-up needed for both reaction sections and is sent to a polishing reactor operated in once-through mode. In addition, HyC-10™ systems can be designed to co-process other difficult feedstocks present in the refinery such as LCO, light cracked GO and visbroken GO (HyC-10+ process).

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