Renewing the fight against phosphorus (ERTC)

With the goal of furthering progress towards a sustainable future, governments in the US and EU have made their demands clear: a significant amount of ...

Discovering hydrocracking units potential with pretreat and tailored hydrocracking catalysts

A refiner uses pretreat and hydrocracking catalyst to maximise heavy naphtha, kerosene, and diesel production with improved product properties.

More from the barrel

An alumina-supported catalyst for ULSD production or hydrocracking pretreat provides longer catalyst cycles, higher throughput, and better product qua ...

A case for renewable hydrogen (TIA)

Processing renewable feedstocks is more complex than processing non-renewables.

Hydrogen consumption is higher than we would like in our raw diesel hydrotreater. Can we lower it without loss of throughput?

Responses to a question in the Q1 2021 issues Q&A feature

2030 isn’t long off – the future of advanced biofuels (ERTC)

The use of biofuels is increasing industry-wide due to legislation incentives aimed at producing low greenhouse gas-emitting transport fuels. Feedstock ...

Boosting mild hydrocracking performance

Optimising its mild hydrocracking operations using new catalyst developments enabled a refinery to meet more complex targets for fuel quality.