4TH International Congress on Technology - Engineering & SCIENCE - Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia (2017-08-05)

Yield Performance Characterization Of Unconventional Fluid Catalytic Cracking Feed Blend
Fluid Catalytic Cracking is one of the main conversion unit in oil refinery. It’s nature of operation makes it the most versatile unit in helping refiner to meet refined oil product demand while maintaining a healthy margin. Changing economic scenarios and available processing options often force a refiner to pursue unconventional feed blend to be processed in the FCC. One of the renewable energy initiative in Pertamina’s is processing renewable feedstock in the existing refinery. Due to it’s versatile nature, FCC becomes one of the promising unit that can help in achieving those target. FCC unit usually process feed that comes from vacuum distillation unit (mainly vacuum gas oil) which has a boiling point between 330ºC - 550ºC. Coprocessing renewable feedstock (in this case palm oil and it’s derivative) in unmodified FCC unit will pose some risk due to inherent characteristic of the chosen feed (high oxygen content). This paper investigate how different unconventional FCC feedstock blend will affect yield performance of the unit by using data from pilot plant unit. Focusing on Pertamina’s FCC unit in Plaju Refinery, Indonesia.
Rizki Ekananda, Masputra Agung, Agustina Eliyanti