Fluid coking with solvent separation of recycle oil

摘要

A fluid coking process is provided in which a stream of heavy oil product, which typically is recycled to the coking zone, is first subjected to solvent separation to separate it into a high Conradson carbon product and a lower Conradson carbon product and, thereafter, at least a portion of the lower Conradson carbon product is recovered and the high Conradson carbon product is recycled to the coking zone.