NATURAL BITUMEN CONVERSION METHOD Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC C10G11/02 C10C3/02 B82B3/00 

FIELD: oil and gas industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to oil processing, particularly, to processing of heavy oils and natural bitumen, and can be used for production of gasoline and diesel fractions. Invention relates to a method of converting natural bitumen by catalytic aquathermolysis in the presence of nanosized powder, characterized in that the process is carried out in an autoclave at temperature of 450 °C in presence of water in supercritical state, taken in amount of 22 wt% on raw material, and nano-sized powder of trivalent iron oxide with average particle size of 114 nm, taken in amount of 0.01 wt%. for raw materials.

EFFECT: obtaining more than 65 wt% total output of gasoline and diesel fractions during conversion of natural bitumen.

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