PROCESS FOR STABILIZATION OF REACTIVE LIQUID FEEDSTOCK

A process and a process plant for conversion of a reactive liquid feedstock stream containing at least 40 wt % carbon, including the steps of directing a diluent stream, having a first combined hydrogen consumption potential and the reactive liquid feedstock stream as a combined stream having a first hydrogen consumption potential, to contact a material catalytically active in hydrotreatment which during operation has a lowest temperature of at least 80° C. and a highest temperature of less than 250° C. in the presence of dihydrogen, withdrawing a stabilized composition stream having a second combined hydrogen consumption potential which is less than 80% and more than 10% of the first hydrogen consumption potential, and providing an amount of the liquid phase of said stabilized composition stream as said diluent stream wherein the hydrogen consumption potential for a composition is the amount of hydrogen required for conversion of the composition into a saturated hydrocarbon.