Accomplishments

Master file of run data (~3500 data sets)

  • 2,500+ tests are deep thermal cracking delayed coking runs to quantify yields, study morphology, additives and recycle effects
  • 304 delayed coking and glass coker tests have been conducted to study foaming
  • 451 tests have been conducted to understand the kinetics in the batch reactor, furnace coil and minicoker
  • 701fouling tests have been conducted on the HLPS and serpentine coil
    • 92tests have been conducted on the new fouling device just commissioned to study fouling in turbulent flow regime
  • 27 tests have been conducted on the solvent de-asphalting unit
  • 31 tests are mild thermal cracking runs
  • All these tests have been conducted using 30 different feedstocks as well as feedstocks with blends

Master database for model validation (300+runs)

Renewable studies

  • Algae, motor oils, fats, plastics, etc.

User Friendly Models (CFD and Excel)

  • VR Models and correlations for foaming, fouling, coke-liquid-gas yields, subproduct distributions, morphology and kinetics
  • Models for the effects of blends on yields, sub-products and fouling
  • Feedstock models for emissions
    • Phenols, Cyanide, Hydrocarbons, and H2S
  • Quench model that provides an understanding as to what conditions create a hot spot in a coke drum
  • State of the art foaming model
  • State of the art morphology model under development

Two patents

  • Non-silicone AF Patent No: US 8,419,931 B2
  • Hydrogen donors for yield enhancement and steam velocity replacement  Patent No:  US 10,487,270

Optimization and advances to the state of the art for the delayed coking process

Insight that minimizes HES concerns

Private client studies that have been applied in industry

Provided hands on experience for future downstream employees with equipment that are a closer representation of the industrial scale equipment