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Tracerco Diagnostics™ FCCU Study

See inside your Operations. The Fluidised Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) is the economic heart of a modern refinery. Even small increases in its yield can bring about significant overall gains in productivity and revenue. Tracerco can provide you with valuable online insights into the catalysts and fluid behaviour inside your FCCU with our Tracerco Diagnostics™ FCCU Study.

A Tracerco Diagnostics™ FCCU Study will provide you with the information you need to optimise or troubleshoot your specific process:
• All testing is performed while the FCCU is online.
• There is no interference with normal unit operations or production scheduling.
• Data collected can be used to identify operating parameter changes to improve unit productivity or gauge the accuracy of process modelling and simulation.
• Tracerco’s experience involves numerous studies performed on units worldwide.

Our tracer and scanning technology measures the density profile within vessels, and the velocity, distribution and residence time of the catalyst or vapour phase throughout the FCCU. Such insights let you identify problems, plan maintenance efficiently and improve productivity including:
• Reactor riser.
• Reactor.
• Reactor stripping section.
• Regenerator.
• Spent catalyst and regenerated catalyst standpipes.

The operation of the associated downstream main fractionator column can also be investigated using Tracerco’s Tru-Scan™ technology. In order to offer our customers a fast response, we operate from a number of offices around the world strategically close to major industrial centres. Same or next day service is part of our normal service provision.

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