J. Lederer et al., A STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL PYROLYSIS OF THE HIGH-BOILING PRODUCTS FROM HYDROCRACKING OF PETROLEUM VACUUM DISTILLATE, Fuel, 73(2), 1994, pp. 295-299
In an interconnected hydrocracking and pyrolysis unit, the effects of
the conditions of hydrocracking of a petroleum vacuum distillate and o
f pyrolysis of a high-boiling hydrocracking product (temperature at th
e pyrolysis reactor outlet, feedstock rate and mass ratio of steam to
pyrolysed raw material) on the yields of ethylene and other pyrolysis
products were studied. Mathematical relations were derived from the ex
perimental data, to allow reaction conditions giving maximum yields of
the relevant pyrolysis products to be found.