Arofining™ - Aromatics purification via selective hydrogenation

Aromatics Purification through Selective Hydrogenation Unit. Aromatics commercial specifications, as well as transformation and separation processes, require aromatic streams free of unsaturated compounds. Arofining™ is an aromatics purification technology aiming at hydrogenating in a selective manner olefins, diolefins and styrenics while preserving the highly valuable aromatics. Olefins, Diolefins, StyrenicsSources and Effects An important source of aromatics for petrochemical ...

BTX Direct℠ Naphtha Dearomatization Process

GTC Vorro Technology’s BTX DirectSM process is a simplified version of liquid-liquid extraction, which separates aromatics from straight run naphtha to bypass the steam cracker operation. The extracted aromatics plus contaminants are routed to the pygas hydrotreating and purification for profitable recovery of benzene, toluene, xylenes, and heavy aromatics. The non-aromatic fraction is routed through the normal steps of cracking and recovery of olefins. For gasoil feedstock, ...

BTX Gold™ Solvents

In the petrochemical industry, fractional distillation is the mainstay for separating components on the basis of different boiling points. When the individual component boiling points are close or when there is need for ultra-high purity products, then other techniques are used to facilitate the separation. Solvent-enhanced systems are useful when the components to be separated have different functional groups. These respond to polar solvents in this general trend of attractiveness: The ...

Customized grading solutions for your feedstock

Match your catalyst grading to your feedstock for minimum pressure drop build-up and maximum demetallization. As today’s opportunity crudes and heavier feedstocks become more economically viable, the oil fractions you refine are posing new challenges. Creating the optimal grading solution for your individual feedstock is essential to minimize pressure drop build-up, increase metals pick-up, and reduce downtime and catalyst replacement. An overlooked advantage The importance ...

DAVY butanediol and co‐products process

Johnson Matthey are the provider of the leading DAVYTM technology for butanediol (BDO) plants worldwide. We offer a more economical process by using low-cost raw materials, producing BDO from butane via maleic anhydride (MAH), or from sugar via succinic acid (SAC), with the latter process making bio-based BDO possible. The DAVY process is also designed with an esterification step prior to hydrogenolysis. This achieves greater efficiency, and a higher-quality product. In ...

High octane C₅/C₆ cuts via isomerization Processes

C5/C6 isomerization is a must-have for refiners who want to maximize the profitability of their gasoline pool. This process can be adapted to various configurations and allows improving C5/C6 naphtha cut octane numbers up to 92 without constraints on olefins and sulfur. Axens is licensing a complete set of isomerization configurations in order to support refiners to resolve the evolving gasoline pool equation. COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE With a powerful R&D support at both lab ...

Johnson Matthey licensed processes

A portfolio of advanced process technologies for global markets. Johnson Matthey (JM) develops and licenses proprietary process technologies. We also offer collaborating companies an extensive range of technology development, process design and engineering skill. For over thirty years JM has been engaged in innovative DAVY™ licensing development. Our comprehensive expertise of catalysis and reaction engineering has been tailored to the production of a wide range of chemicals ...

Measurement solutions for the Petrochemical industry

In order to produce a variety of plastics and polymers, petro-chemistry deals with the synthesis of hydrocarbon compounds, derived from the refining of crude oil and/or processing of natural gas. During the production of polymers, extreme conditions can occur, such as high-pressure and high-temperature. Thus, conventional density, level and level-switch measurement  In the atmospheric distillation process as well as in vacuum distillation, crude oil is separated into fractions ...

Naphtha to Ethane / Propane (NEP)

The olefins industry is facing challenges with increasing competitiveness, in terms of cost of production, amidst a growing concern about feedstock security in many parts of the world. While ethane crackers remain the lowest cost to build and operate, many liquid crackers have already been built around the globe. These installations have sought to capture local price discounts for light naphtha and their operation is mainly due to feedstock security. Ethane is not prevalent in ...

RVP in process: ensure safety, comply with specifications, optimize profits

Pipeline operators, offshore platforms, terminals, fuel depots or oil tankers detect the vapor pressure, before transporting crude oil or other petrochemical products such as Gasoline or LPG for subsequent processing. It is absolutely necessary to know the vapor pressure of the transported substance to prevent costly damage done to the transportation or storage system.   Apart from the costs a failure might cause, environmental regulations limit maximum vapor pressure ...

The Refinery of the Future

This change toward more integrated complexes already has begun. As recently as five years ago, roughly 15 percent of new CCR PlatformingTM units were designed for petrochemicals production. Today, that number has risen to nearly 70 percent. New integrated complexes in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and China — where GDP growth is highest — are being designed to convert as much as two-thirds of their feedstock into petrochemicals. No two complexes will have the same solution, ...

Vapor pressure testing for petroleum, LPG, crude oil and Chemicals

Vapor pressure is an important physical property of volatile liquids especially of spark-ignition engine fuels. It provides an indication of how a fuel will perform under different operating conditions. For example, vapor pressure is a factor in determining, whether a fuel will cause vapor locks at high ambient temperature or at high altitude, or will provide easy starting at low ambient temperatures. Petroleum product specifications are regulated by various governmental agencies. ...