Fluid hydrocoking with the addition of dispersible metal compounds

Claim 1

A fluid coking process which comprises the steps of: (a) adding to a carbonaceous chargestock having a Conradson carbon content of at least 5 weight percent, a metal compound selected from the group consisting of metal salts of organic acids, metal phenolates, metal halides, inorganic poly acids and mixtures thereof wherein the metal constituent of said metal compound is selected from the group consisting of Groups IVB, VB, VIB, VIIB and VIII of the Periodic Table of Elements and mixtures thereof, (b) contacting the resulting mixture with hot fluidized solids in a fluidized coking bed contained in a coking zone maintained in fluidized state by the introduction of a hydrogen-containing fluidizing gas, said coking zone being maintained at a temperature ranging from about 750° F. to about 1100° F. and at a total pressure ranging from about 400 to about 3000 psig to produce a vapor phase product and a solid carbonaceous material which deposits on said fluidized solids, (c) withdrawing a portion of said solids from said coking zone, and contacting at least a portion of said withdrawn solids with steam and a molecular oxygen-containing gas at a temperature ranging from about 1600° F. to about 2000° F. to produce a fuel gas and metallic ashes, (d) recycling at least a portion of said metallic ashes to said chargestock, and (e) discontinuing the addition of said metal compound of step (a).