Off-gas processing | Fuel gas hydrotreating

Fuel gas hydrotreater process flow

Many refiners face the dual major issues of improving refinery efficiency and reducing emissions. Haldor Topsoe’s new commercially proven fuel gas hydrotreating technology addresses both, by cleaning up dirty refinery fuel gas streams from sulfur compounds which are not ordinarily removed. This offering confers 2 principal advantages:

The upgraded, clean fuel gas is a new source for hydrogen production. This is especially valuable if existing natural gas feeds are expensive or unreliable.
Stringent SOx emissions requirements can be met, since organic sulfur always contributes to net emissions.

The licensed technology handles a wide variety of off-gases (from the coker unit, FCC units, and the hydrotreating units) and consists of three catalytic steps:

Diolefin Saturation
Sulfur conversion and olefin saturation
COS hydrolysis

Haldor Topsoe’s customized catalytic solution to clean up refinery fuel gas is the only offering of its kind and is commercially proven to improve refinery operations.

CKA-3

Promoted alumina-based catalyst used for hydrolysis of carbonyl sulfide (COS)

Inlet diffuser

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Outlet collector

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Scale catcher

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Revamping hydroprocessing units

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Catalyst Loading

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General Technical Service

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Plant Assessment / Optimization

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Sampling & Analysis

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Start-up & Reduction / Activation

Our Start-up & Reduction/Activation service supports you before, during and after start-up to make ...

Troubleshooting

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Project development

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Amine regeneration

H₂S in refinery recycle and off-gasses is removed from the process by absorption in amine absorbers. Sour refinery off-gasses contain large amounts of H₂S.

Claus tail gas treatment

Topsoe offers a range of tail gas treatment catalysts that allow you to reach sulfur recoveries of 99.9% and comply with today’s tight regulations.

Fuel gas hydrotreating

Haldor Topsoe’s customized catalytic solution to clean up refinery fuel gas is the only offering of its kind and is commercially proven to improve refinery operations.

Sour water stripping

Topsoe’s technology helps you to remove the sulfur compounds and ammonia impurities from your derived sour water before you reuse it in the refinery or discharge it.