Coke chemical companies
often have a deficit of coals of particularly
valuable grades, the coking coals. This work studies the opportunity
of producing petroleum coking additives using delayed coking during
heavy petroleum residue processing. Experiments for the production
of a carbon material were conducted using three kinds of heavy petroleum
residues of the oil refinery plant Ltd Kinef: the vacuum residue from
crude atmospheric and vacuum distillation units (VR1), the vacuum
residue from the vacuum distillation hydrocracking unit (VR2), and
the visbreaker residue from the visbreaking unit (VR3). For the produced
carbon material, the quality indicators were determined, and X-ray
diffraction, thermogravimetric, and differential thermal analyses
were conducted. The petroleum coking additive produced instead of
the typical petroleum coke under a milder temperature regime had the
required quality indicators, particularly, the volatile-matter yield
within the range from 15 to 25 wt %, to be used in metallurgical production
for partial replacement of coking coals in the charge to produce metallurgical
coke.