Abstract: A selenium-containing aqueous stream may be used as a quenching water stream and optionally a cutting water stream in a delayed coking process to effectuate the removal of selenium from the selenium-containing aqueous stream resulting in the formation of a selenium-coke product. In addition, selenium may be concentrated in selenium-containing stripped sour water streams by recycling the stream in one or more hydroprocessing units and one or more sour water stripper units and subsequently removed by using a portion of the selenium-containing stripped sour water stream as a quenching water stream and optionally a cutting water stream in a delayed coking process.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 15, 1994
Date of Patent:
December 8, 1998
Assignee:
Shell Oil Company
Inventors:
Raymond Tom Fong, John Bernard Rodden, Jack Thomas Veal, Charles Lee Meyer, Michael Norris Treybig, Coley Jerald Williams, Richard Joseph Horvath