TO THE QUESTION OF REFINING SOUR CRUDE OIL IN THE ASTRAKHAN GAS CONDENSATE FIELD
The process of catalytic hydroprocessing of residual gas-condensate raw materials is one of the ways to improve the quality and expand the product assortment of the enterprise. Hydrocatalytic technology of refining high-sulphur fuel oil includes the process of heat treatment, when hydrogen is acting as a reagent under high pressure in the presence of catalysts, which reduces the concentration of impurities (metals, sulphur and nitrogen compounds) in the product. The article offers and substantiates operation principles of catalytic hydrogenation of fuel oil in the Astrakhan gas processing plant, and main technological parameters of the process. There has been carried out the preliminary economic assessment the qualified processing 500 t/year of fuel oil. To develop the technology for qualified fuel oil processing there has been created an experimental setup, which is operating under high pressure. The scope of major parameters of experimental research has been defined. Astrakhan fuel oil refining using hydrogenation catalytic process allows to obtain the high quality oil product with sulphur content less than 1% of mass. Using the hydrogenate is feasible as a marine fuel component, because it helps to decrease environmental burden from combustion product emissions.