In the recent past, many US refineries have been reconfigured to process heavy opportunistic sour crudes.
The reformate market is changing.
Jenny Hebert and George Yaluris of Albemarle accept the HP Award for Best Catalyst Technology.
Resid units have more than 2 wt% Conradson carbon residue (Concarbon) in feed and more than 5,000 parts per million (ppm) of nickel (Ni) and vanadium (V) on equilibrium catalysts (Ecat).
Hydrocarbon Processing, the downstream processing sector’s leading technical publication, has announced the winners for its second annual awards.
Change involves risk. Many fluidized catalytic cracking units (FCCUs) can be operated more profitably, but changes to achieve more efficient operations can be risky.
Gong, J.,
Xu, Y.,
Zhang, J.,
Chang, X.,
Wei, X.,
Tang, J., SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing (RIPP)
To meet increasingly stringent specifications for cleaner gasoline and to produce more clean fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) naphtha with lower olefins, a novel FCC technologya for maximizing isoparaffins was developed in the late 1990s. The technology’s principal is based on the formation and conversion of olefins in two different reaction zones.
Genç, M.,
Dalgıç, E.,
Karani, U.,
Emiroglu, I.,
Er, I.,
Gul, A.,
Avcilar, S., TÜPRAŞ;
Ventham, T., Johnson Matthey Process Technologies
Sulfur oxide additives are typically based on hydrotalcite or magnesium aluminate spinel-type structures. Magnesium alumina is the pickup agent present in the most effective SOx additives on the market; therefore, to optimize SOx reduction, it is critical to maximize the amount of the critical magnesium component in the fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) in an efficient and cost-effective way.
At the end of this month, Hydrocarbon Processing will honor the latest technological advances in the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) at an awards gala.