Hydrocracking

High-quality products from low-value streams

Today, refineries have to produce more high-quality transportation fuels from heavier streams, while also improving profit margins. Our single-source supply of all the key elements of a hydrocracking unit comprising hydrocracker pretreatment, hydrocracking and grading catalysts, technology licensing including heavy poly-nuclear aromatic (HPNA) management solutions and high-performance reactor internals can help you maximize yields of the exact products you need – whether you process feeds, ranging from distillate to deasphalted oil (DAO), fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) slurry, and heavy coker gasoil – or shale oil, coal tar, Fischer Tropsch wax, and other unconventional feeds.

Topsoe solutions enable you to achieve better yield, greater efficiency, lower operating costs, reduced environmental impacts, and higher on-stream factor, as well as boosting your flexibility with regard to feedstocks, output, and to meet new market opportunities. Hence, our hydrocracking portfolio also fully supports new energy-transition applications, including HydroFlex™ and PureStep™.

We provide the know-how, technologies, and equipment to help you achieve the “balance of opportunities” that is best for you in volatile, unpredictable market conditions which require you to react quickly to make the most of commercial opportunities.

Applications within this area

Flexible operation

A profound understanding of catalyst kinetics and hydrocracking processes enables Topsoe to provide hydrocracking units that meet any market need – meeting all the requirements.

Hydrocracker feed pretreatment

Proprietary BRIM® and HyBRIM™ technologies enable Topsoe’s hydrocracker feed pretreatment catalysts to deliver unmatched high activity for HDS and, in particular, HDN.

Maximum middle distillate yield

The hydrocracker is one of the most proﬁtable units in your refinery. Even unconverted oil from your hydrocracker can serve as a high-quality feedstock for lube oil plants, fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) units or steam crackers.

Mild hydrocracking

As you plan your transition into the renewable era, it’s important to effectively identify and leverage the production units that best align with your co-processing goals, and to determine the impact that renewable processing will have on ...

Renewables co-processing in hydrocracking

Get proactive support for your renewable goals without compromising on existing hydrocracking business

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