Table 1 the Parameters of Different Heat Exchangers

Tube Side Shell Side

Heat
Exchanger Pressure Pressure
T(Inlet, F) T(Outlet, F) T(Inlet, F) T(Outlet, F)
Drop(psig) Drop(psig)

E-1A/B 100 130 15 217.7 192.3 2

E-3 130 170 10 373.2 259.3 4

E-4 130 170 10 504.6 387.6 4

E-5 170 235 15 409.4 307.5 4

E-6 235 293 15 529.6 420.4 4

E-7 240 256 5 290.9 277.1 5

E-8A/B 288.7 342 15 455.1 375.7 5

E-9 342 362 15 525.3 441.0 5

E-10A/B 352 432 15 540.9 455.1 5

E-11 432 451 15 614.6 525.4 5

E-12 451 475 15 813.6 691.2 5

E-14 102.6 175 5 285.1 219.0 5

Distil Heater 475 650 10

Vacuum
670.6 747.0 25.7
Heater

E-2A-F 195.3 102.0 6

1.1 Crude Distillation

After preheated, the feed stream 22A enters the atmospheric column on the tray 24 which
represents the column flash zone in the model. A dummy heat source is introduced on this tray to
“trim” the crude oil temperature as needed fro the initial solution trials and facilitate a converged
solution. The flash zone vapors rise up the tower where the side products are condensed and
withdrawn. Cold reflux for condensing the side products is provided by the pumparound cooler and
the overhead condensers. The atmospheric gas oil, diesel, and kerosene products are steam stripped
in side columns, with the stripped vapors re-entering the main column. The side stripper for heavy
naphtha is inactive, and has no steam flow.

After cooled, the overhead product is three-phase separated, the wet gas, Water and the liquid.
The liquid flow is divided as two, one goes back to the column as reflux and the other is stabilized in
a column that collects the C3 and C4 hydrocarbons.

The topped crude from the column bottom is pumped to the vacuum column after heated by a
furnace. The heavy vacuum gas oil (HVGO) and light vacuum gas oil (LVGO) are drawn from this 8-
stage column.

All the specifications correlated with the columns are listed in Table 2.

Table 2 the Specifications of the Columns

Crude Tower

TrimDuty 4.91e7 Btu/hr

Kerosene pumparound rate 50000 barrel/day

Diesel pumparound rate 40000 barrel/day

AGO pumparound rate 20000 barrel/day

Overhead product ASTM D86 95 LV% 232 F

Heavy Naphtha ASTM D86 95 LV% 360 F

Kerosene ASTM D86 95 LV% 515 F

Diesel ASTM D86 95 LV% 650F

Reflux Rate (stream Re) 28500 barrel/day

BotSteam 635 F, 135.3 psig, 5000 lb/hr

AGOSteam 570 F, 50 psg, 750 lb/hr

DieselSteam 485 F, 50 psig, 2500 lb/hr

KerosSteam 361 F, 50 psig, 3500 lb/hr

Stabilizer

IC5 fraction in overhead product LV% 0.010

NC4 fraction in bottom product LV% 0.025

C3/C4 rate 800 barrel/day

Light Gasoline Recycle 440 F, 96 psig, 11710 lbmole/hr

Vacuum Tower

LVGO pump rate 30000 barrel/day

LVGO pump return temperature 133 F

Slop Was Rate 1100 barrel/day

HVGO Return rate 50000 barrel/day

HVGO rate 16804 barrel/day

Vac Resid rate 13920 barrel/day

Column top temperature 136 F

Column bottom temperature 675 F