中石化石科院 SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing (RIPP)
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中国石油化工股份有限公司石油化工科学研究院（以下简称石科院）是中国石化直属的石油炼制与石油化工综合性科学技术研究开发机构，创建于1956年。石科院以石油炼制技术的开发和应用为主，注重油化结合，兼顾相关石油化工技术的研发。近年加强了在新型替代燃料和新能源领域的创新，正在向全方位的以炼油为主、油化结合的能源型研发机构转变。
SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing (RIPP), founded in 1956, is a comprehensive research and development organization specialized in petroleum refining and petrochemical engineering. Subordinated to SINOPEC Corporation, RIPP is mainly devoted to the development and application of technologies for petroleum refining, while laying stress on refining-petrochemical integration and corresponding petrochemical technologies as well. In recent years, it has been reinforcing its innovation in new alternative fuels and renewable energy fields. RIPP now is on the way of transition to an all-directional energy R&D organization mainly engaged in petroleum refining and refining-petrochemical integration.
多年来，石科院在技术创新方面既重视与企业和设计单位的合作，注重市场拉动的作用，又十分重视开展导向性基础研究和应用基础研究，积累科学知识和工艺、工程经验，发挥知识创新对技术创新的推动作用。目前，石科院拥有从原油评价到各项炼油工艺技术及催化剂开发，直到石油产品研制和评价的全炼油厂成套技术的开发实力和研发优势。科研业务领域包括：炼油技术、化工技术、材料技术、产品技术、新能源技术、环保技术、智能化技术、公用技术等。
In the past decades, RIPP has laid great emphasis not only on the cooperation with enterprises and designing institutes to meet the ever-changing market demands, but also on the directional and applied fundamental research to accumulate scientific understanding and experience in process and engineering, and to drive technology innovation. Now RIPP is capable of providing integrated technologies for the whole refinery based on its strength in crude oil evaluation, petroleum processing technologies and catalysts R&D, as well as petroleum product preparation and evaluation. Its research areas cover refining technologies, petrochemical technologies, material technologies, product technologies, renewable energy technologies, environmental protection technologies, intelligent technologies and so on.
石科院下设20个研究部门，拥有一支综合技术优势突出的科研队伍，目前职工总数为1172人，各类技术人员965人。其中，中国科学院、中国工程院院士4人，中国石化首席专家3人、高级专家8人。拥有近千套中小型炼油和石油化工试验装置及各种化学分析仪器，涉及炼油工艺、石油化工、精细化工和添加剂以及油品应用研究等领域。
The 20 research departments in RIPP have nurtured a comprehensive and professional scientific research team, with 1,172 staffs sharing the future with this institute. Among them, there are 4 members of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, 3 Sinopec Chief Specialist and 8 Sinopec Senior Specialists. RIPP is equipped with approximately 1,000 sets of bench scale and pilot plant test units together with a large array of advanced analytical equipment engaged in R&D of oil refining, petrochemicals, fine chemicals, additives, and petroleum products application.
石科院是《石油学报》《石油炼制与化工》和《China Petroleum Processing and Petrochemical Technology》3个科技期刊的编辑、出版单位。石科院有研究生部和博士后流动站，拥有化学工艺、应用化学专业博士学位、化学工艺、应用化学、工业催化和化学工程专业硕士学位的授予权。
Three professional journals, ACTA PETROLEI SINICA, Petroleum Processing and Petrochemicals and China Petroleum Processing and Petrochemical Technology (English version), are edited and published here. In terms of education and training, RIPP has a post-graduate school and conducts post-doctoral research program, and is authorized by the state to confer PhD degrees in chemical technology and applied chemistry as well as Master’s degrees in chemical technology, applied chemistry, industrial catalysis and chemical engineering.
经过65年的建设和发展，石科院已经成为科研力量雄厚、装备齐全，石油炼制与石油化工科研开发、技术许可、技术咨询和技术服务相结合的综合性研究开发机构。截止2020年底，共获得部级以上奖励的科技成果987项，国家级奖励134项。其中：国家最高科学技术奖1项、国家发明一等奖2项、国家科技进步特等奖2项，国家科技进步一等奖8项。累计申请国内专利9814件，获授权6701件；申请国外专利1436件，获授权889件。获中国国家知识产权局和世界知识产权组织联合颁发的中国专利金奖8项、银奖1项、优秀奖19项。
After the development for 65 years, RIPP has become a well-equipped R&D organization integrating petroleum refining and petrochemicals technologies research and development with technology licensing, technology consulting and technical service. By the end of 2020, RIPP has made 987 scientific and technical achievements with awards above ministerial level as well as 134 State Prizes. Among them there are one State Top Science and Technology Award, two State Invention Awards (First Class), two Science and Technology Advancement Awards (Special Prize), and eight National Science and Technology Advancement Awards (First Class). To this day, RIPP has applied for 9,814 domestic patents with 6,701 granted, and 1,436 foreign patents with 889 granted. It has won eight Gold Awards, one Silver Awards and 19 Excellence Awards jointly issued by China National Intellectual Property Administration and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
在不同的历史时期，石科院均研发出对中国炼油工业发展具有举足轻重意义和推动作用的重大技术。二十世纪六十年代，参与开发的流化催化裂化、催化重整、延迟焦化、尿素脱蜡、新型催化剂和添加剂，被誉为中国炼油史上的“五朵金花”，是实现中国现代炼油技术从无到有的标志；二十世纪七十年代，开发出提升管催化裂化工艺、分子筛催化裂化催化剂、半再生催化重整工艺和双金属重整催化剂，保持了炼油技术的发展势头。二十世纪八十年代，开发了重油催化裂化催化剂、USY分子筛和REHY分子筛、RN-1加氢精制催化剂、铂铼重整催化剂系列、SKI二甲苯异构化催化剂、全大庆常压渣油催化裂化工艺技术、针状焦生产技术、高功率坦克发动机油等，总体技术接近世界水平，开始形成石科院的优势技术领域，为中国现代炼油工业技术、催化剂基本实现自给发挥了关键作用。二十世纪九十年代，开发了催化裂化家族技术，其中：DCC技术获得1995年度唯一的一项国家技术发明一等奖，并实现了我国炼油技术的出口；开发了新型ZRP分子筛、重油加工组合工艺技术、中压加氢改质技术、中压加氢裂化技术、低压组合床重整技术、新型溶剂芳烃抽提技术，技术基本达到国际水平，部分技术达到国际先进甚至国际领先水平，一批技术和产品开始走出国门，陆续进入东南亚、中东和欧美市场。
In different historical periods, RIPP has developed outstanding technologies that played important roles and greatly accelerated the evolution in Chinese refining industry. In the 1960s, RIPP was engaged in the development of Fluid Catalytic Cracking, Catalytic Reforming, Delayed Coking, Urea Dewaxing and new types of catalysts and additives, which were praised as the Five Golden Flowers in China and marked the great breakthrough in the development of modern technology for Chinese oil refining industry from nothing. In the 1970s, RIPP developed Riser Catalytic Cracking Process, Zeolite FCC Catalysts, Semi-regeneration Reforming Process, Bi-metallic Reforming Catalysts that maintained the advancing trends of Chinese oil refining technology. In the 1980s, a large amount of technologies and catalysts were developed, such as new generation of Resid FCC Catalyst, USY Zeolite and REHY Zeolite, RN-1 Hydrogenation Catalyst, Pt-Re Series Reforming Catalysts, SKI Xylene Isomerization Catalysts, Full Daqing AR RFCC Technology, Needle Coke Production Technology, High Power Tank Engine Oil, etc. RIPP began to establish its own dominant technical areas, and many technologies approached the international level. It played a key role in self-supporting the Chinese oil refining technologies and catalysts. In the 1990s, RIPP developed its FCC family technology, among which the DCC technology won the only First Prize of National Technology Invention Award in the year of 1995, and fulfilled the exportation of Chinese oil refining technology since then. Besides, a series of technologies were developed, such as new type of ZRP zeolite, Heavy Oil Processing Integrated Technology, Medium Pressure Hydro-Upgrading Technology, Medium Pressure Hydrocracking Technology, Low Pressure Combined-bed Catalytic Reforming Technology, Aromatic Extraction Technology with New Solvent. These technologies basically achieved the international standard; some of them attained international advanced level and even international leading level. Since then, RIPP had made great progress in overseas marketing with a serial of technologies and products successively sailing to Southeast Asia, Middle East, Europe and U.S.
面对中国炼油工业面临的清洁油品生产、产品结构调整、降低生产成本等诸多挑战，石科院科学地分析未来发展趋势，提前开展了相关课题的研究，在清洁汽、柴油生产，提高原油加工深度，增加轻质油收率，含硫、含酸和重质、劣质原油加工等方面，成功地开发并实施了多项技术，支撑了炼油工业的发展，同时进行了必要的技术储备。其中：降低催化裂化汽油烯烃含量GOR系列催化剂、多产异构烷烃的催化裂化MIP技术、生产清洁汽油并增产丙烯CGP技术等在炼油厂得到大面积推广应用，形成了符合中国炼油装置特点、具有我国自主知识产权的清洁汽油生产成套技术，使中国石化炼油企业在重大挑战面前，以较少投资、较低成本并在较短时间内实现了汽油质量升级，产生了显著的经济效益和社会效益。
Nowadays Chinese oil refining industry is facing various challenges such as the production of clean fuels, adjustment of product structure and reduction of operating costs. Having foreseen this, RIPP has carried out related R&D projects in advance. It has now successfully developed and commercialized many technologies, such as the production of clean gasoline and diesel fuels, deep processing of heavy crudes, increasing the yield of light oil, the processing of sour crudes, high total acid number (TAN) crudes, heavy crude and refractory crudes. These technologies not only support the development of refining industry, but also provide RIPP with necessary technology reserves. Among them, GOR series catalysts for reducing olefin content in FCC gasoline, MIP technology maximizing isoparaffin production, as well as CGP technology for producing clean gasoline and increasing propylene yields have been widely applied as clean gasoline production technology package, enabling Sinopec refineries to make remarkable economic and social benefits with relatively low investment and cost at a short time.
2020年，石科院申请中国专利702件，获授权600件；申请国外专利121件，获授权80件。成功开发LTA、RTC（DCC Pro）、第二代高效芳烃成套技术、浆态床双氧水制备技术等多项标志性成果，在国内率先完成燃料电池车用氢气质量检测CMA和CNAS认可，推动了更多炼油催化剂和工艺技术“走出去”。
In 2020, 702 domestic patents and 121 foreign patents have been applied by RIPP, with 600 and 80 granted respectively. RIPP has successfully developed series of symbolic technologies, such as LTA, RTC (DCC Pro), 2nd generation of high efficient aromatics production technology package, and slurry-bed hydrogen peroxide preparation technology. It is the first organization in China to get the CMA and CNAS certification for FCV hydrogen quality test. More RIPP catalysts and technologies have entered into global market.
面向未来，石科院将紧紧围绕中国石化科技指导方针，不断增强自主创新能力，充分发挥科技创新的支撑和引领作用，努力打造世界一流的以炼油为主、油化结合的能源型研究院，为中国石化提供全方位技术支撑。
Facing the future and following Sinopec guidelines, RIPP, with the goal of becoming a world-class energy research institute mainly engaged in petroleum refining and petrochemical fields, will continue to enhance its innovation capability, fully play the role of a propeller in science and technology innovation, and endeavor to provide all-around technical support to SINOPEC.