About Axens

Axens is a group providing a complete range of solutions for the conversion of oil and biomass to cleaner fuels, the production and purification of major petrochemical intermediates as well as all of natural gas' treatment and conversion options. The offer includes technologies, equipment, furnaces, modular units, catalysts, adsorbents and related services. Axens is ideally positioned to cover the entire value chain, from feasibility study to unit start-up and follow-up throughout ...

ACHIEVE® FCC Catalysts

Grace is expanding its portfolio of catalysts to address the current market challenges, in particular to lower slurry yield to take advantage of distillate crack spreads as well as to address the trend towards increased residue and opportunity crude processing. Grace has developed new technologies through extensive Grace R&D program that addressed the octane debits encountered by North American refiners processing tight oil. This R&D program resulted in advances to ...

ACTION® FCC catalysts

Maximizing alkylation feed, transportation fuels and octane Taking advantage of new zeolite technology. The chances are that maximizing transportation fuels (gasoline plus diesel/light cycle oil) and alkylation feed while raising the octane level of the gasoline produced in your FCC unit is high on your agenda. Octane has become a key issue for many refiners with the advent of tight oil resulting in the production of more-efficient car engines, the almost worldwide ban on the ...

AFX™ catalysts for increased propylene production from FCC units

New technology to meet propylene demand Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) units are playing an increasingly important role in meeting the growing worldwide demand for propylene. To help refiners meet this demand better, Ketjen has introduced the innovative AFX catalyst technology and catalyst family, which are designed specifically for operation at high-propylene yield. Before AFX, propylene production from an FCC unit with a traditional catalyst was limited. ZSM-5 based additives ...

All about excellence in the energy and chemical industry

KBC exists to help you achieve and sustain excellent operational performance, through the actions of our people, fused with the application of our digitalization technology and best practices, powered by the Cloud.Better decisions - faster, Flawless execution - every time and  Superior results - sustained. Deliver value: Performance assurance Organizations that perform at their best are able to adjust to changing dynamics without compromising competitiveness. KBC ...

AMBER™

AMBER™ catalysts are frequently used, high-quality catalysts from the Ketjen portfolio and are manufactured using ADM-20 matrix technology, which is common to its high-accessibility catalysts. AMBER™ is the benchmark for maximum transportation fuels against which all other gas oil catalysts are measured. In addition, AMBER™ catalysts are solutions for non-residue processing refiners that require both excellent bottoms conversion and the gasoline and olefin selectivity ...

Axens engineering services revamping

For a successful revamping project, no matter the degree of its complexity, and in accordance with your tight schedules, Axens is your unique contact during the phase preceding detailed engineering. Axens’ offer is based on our well founded expertise and several decades of experience. Our team of equipment specialists and our extensive network of detailed engineering contractors and equipment manufacturers complete this offer.   Our approach consists of successive ...

Axens hydrocracking

Axens is an established name in hydrocracking licensing with more than 40 years’ experience in all types of hydrocracking processes. We have a large portfolio of hydroconversion processes, including fixed and ebullated-bed technologies. Our commercial units operate at low, medium and high conversion, and in once through, single-stage recycle and two-stage modes. Our commercial hydrocracker designs can cover a large variety of feedstocks varying from light HGO and LVGO ...

Axens overview

Axens is a group providing a complete range of solutions for the conversion of oil and biomass to cleaner fuels, the production and purification of major petrochemical intermediates as well as all of natural gas' treatment and conversion options. The offer includes technologies, equipment, furnaces, modular units, catalysts, adsorbents and related services. Axens is ideally positioned to cover the entire value chain, from feasibility study to unit start-up and follow-up ...

BCMT™-500 and BCMT-500-LRT

Too often, profitability is lost because refiners lack adequate accessibility and bottoms cracking power in their catalyst. Ketjen has developed BCMT-500 additive, which features high accessibility and provides powerful functional bottoms conversion sites. BCMT-500 delivers many pre-cracking sites and high metals tolerance, while making up only a small fraction of the circulating catalyst inventory. Contaminant metals such as nickel, sodium, vanadium and calcium destroy the ...

Be smart about FCC olefin recovery

Whether the driver is propylene as a chemicals feedstock or propylene and butylene as alky feed, FCC units worldwide are being pushed to maximize olefin production. Increased hydrotreating to meet Tier 3 gasoline requirements is reducing gasoline pool octane at a time of high premium-to-regular gasoline price differentials. Maximizing FCC olefi ns to produce high octane alkylate barrels is attractive – if they can be recovered in the FCC gas plant LPG stream. Higher reactor ...

Co-Processing of alternative feeds

Vision of low carbon FCC of the future. To live in a more sustainable world, refiners are exploring ways to lower their carbon footprint. Sources of FCC Carbon emissions FCC - Scope 1 emissions from burning coke - Scope 2 emissions related to energy inputs (fairly small for FCC) - Scope 3 Upstream emissions for production and transport of feed - Scope 3 downstream for combustion of transportation fuels made from FCC.

DuraSOx™

DURASOx™ SOx reduction additive is the culmination of intensive development work focusing on obtaining the most attrition-resistant SOx additive on the market without any performance compromises. It follows in the footsteps of Ketjen’s longest-marketed SOx additive, KDSOxTM, in that both take advantage of Ketjen’s patented hydrotalcite technology. SOx reduction additives are designed to capture and remove the oxidized sulfur compounds present in the Fluid Catalytic Cracking ...