Converting of Waste Crude Oil of East Baghdad Oil Field into Light Hydrocarbons Using Thermal Cracking Technology

Sally I. Hammoodi; Khalid A.  Sukkar; Abdulridha H.  Almajidi; Riyadh  Almukhtar

doi:10.52716/jprs.v14i2.850

Authors

Sally I. Hammoodi Midland Oil Company, East Baghdad Oil field, Ministry of Oil, Baghdad, Iraq
Khalid A. Sukkar Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq
Abdulridha H. Almajidi Midland Oil Company, East Baghdad Oil field, Ministry of Oil, Baghdad, Iraq
Riyadh Almukhtar Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v14i2.850

Keywords:

Thermal cracking; Environmental pollution; Waste crude oil; Hydrocarbon production; Oil field; Disposal pits.

Abstract

East Baghdad oil field produces a lot of quantities of waste crude oil due to drilling and production processes activities. This waste is caused a negative impact on the environment and human health. In the present investigation, the collected waste crude oil of API= 13 was converted into light hydrocarbons via a thermal cracking reaction. The thermal cracking process was achieved in a batch reactor at temperatures ranging between 350-450°C in absence of oxygen. At each temperature, the reaction pressures varied between (1-6) kg/cm². Moreover, a continuous stirring of the reaction mixture inside the reactor was continued during the course of the thermal cracking process at a velocity of 96 rpm. The best yield of produced liquid hydrocarbon, gases, and coke at optimum conditions was 77.56 wt.%, 9.3 wt.%, and 13.14 wt.%, respectively. Actually, this process regards cheap, and simple with a high rate of liquid hydrocarbon production as well as environmentally beneficial.

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