ABSTRACT

Last but not least, this chapter is dedicated to other aspects that are frequently considered to be of less importance when modeling hydroprocessing, but in fact are required to determine or take into consideration, at different stages of experimental studies, design and simulation of reactors, scaling-up, among others. These issues are as follows:

• Correlations. Reported in the literature and developed for predicting the product properties and other process parameters during hydrotreating. Certainly, they are derived for specific feed, catalyst, experimental setup, and reaction conditions, but help for quick calculations.