Heavy oil and residue upgrading by HRH process

since world reservoirs are facing with reducing light and medium oil and increasing heavy oil production research of new methods to convert heavy oil to light crude is inevitable . Also world refineries are medium and light oils based designed and a big struggle concerning of existing refineries is the reduction of the light and medium oil of reservoirs. a variety of processes are developed which can be categorized into two groups of carbon rejection an hydrogen addition. HRH process is a nanocatalytic base cracking in presence of hydrogen for converting heavy crude oil with API less than 10 to light crude by the API of more than 30 and also converting heavy residues to middle distillate products. with consideration that millions BPD of extra heavy crude will be produced during next years, HRH process is able to convert 90-95% of heavy components to light ones that its product is residue free and increase added value and also remove all heavy metals and more than 60% of sulfur content.