Minchul Chung
Sunchon National University, South Korea
Title: Synthesis of the Organometallic Precursor for Slurry-phase Hydrocracking of Heavy oil
Biography
Biography: Minchul Chung
Abstract
Today, heavy oil is looked to as a future energy source since its total reserves are estimated in 6.3 trillion barrels. Due to the recent decline in conventional crude reserves and an increase in the world energy demand, large amounts of residual oil must be upgraded into Light oil. However, its processing is not easy due to its characteristic high content of metals (Ni, V), sulfur and nitrogen, as well as high content of heavy molecules and asphaltenes. Heavy oils have been processed in the most varied ways going from solvent processes to fixed and ebullated bed hydrotreatments, slurry phase hydrocracking and their combinations. This study is in the field of upgrading heavy oil feedstocks into lower boiling, higher quality materials. More particularly, the study was synthesized a catalyst precursors containing molybdenum that can be mixed with heavy oil feedstocks to form a hydroprocessing catalyst and a method for making the catalyst precursors. New precursor was synthesized by using various ligands. These precursor were analyzed using a 1H(13C)-NMR, FT-IR, MS and ICP.