Lu Chunxi

Post-riser regeneration technology in FCC unit

In our present work, a post-riser regeneration technology (PRRT) for fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) units was developed to deal with increasingly heavier feedstock and hereby the larger amount of coke deposited on the catalyst particles during reaction. This technology can make full use of the advantages of riser regenerator, such as high cokeburning efficiency and low residual carbon, and at the same time overcome its disadvantages, such as difficulty in starting combustion. The average particles concentration on the cross section of the system was studied on a large scale cold model experimental set-up. Also a necessary software was developed by combining the hydrodynamics research results in our work with the coke-burning kinetics model and the heat and mass transfer model developed by previous researchers. The simulation results showed that the PRRT could increase regeneration capability by 16.28%–26.24% over the conventional turbulent fluidized bed regenerator under the similar operation conditions, and that the residual carbon could be kept below 0.1 wt %.