Mathematical Modeling of the Vacuum Gas Oil Hydrotreatment

Abstract

Thermochemical properties of molecules and thermodynamic characteristics of vacuum distillate hydrotreatment were calculated by quantumchemical methods. A kinetic model of the hydrotreatment process was developed using a formalized transformation scheme of hydrocarbons. The developed kinetic model was employed in numerical studies aimed to estimate the effect of the feedstock composition on the residual content of heteroatomic components in the product of vacuum gas oil hydrotreatment, the effect of temperature on the content of aromatic hydrocarbons, nitrogen and sulfur in the hydrotreatment product, and the effect of the hydrogen-containing gas consumption on the content of sulfur and hydrogen sulfide in the hydrotreated vacuum gas oil.