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Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalyst and additive offerings together with our expert technical services build the right solution to create value within any unit’s constraints.
Aegis is a flexible FCC catalyst that delivers outstanding coke-selective bottoms cracking from the heaviest feeds.
Altrium® is the newest BASF catalyst based on the combined technologies AIM (Advanced Innovative Matrix) and IZY (Improved Zeolite-Y).
A. Chen, A. Novotny, T. Case, D. Banks, and B. Eren, BASF, USA, outline how FCC catalysts optimise bottoms cracking.
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Refiner and supplier collaborated to evaluate, prepare, and execute the revamp of an FCC and an LPG olefins additive trial.
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Building on our core competencies in materials science and surface chemistry, BASF’s BoroCat offers excellent performance and flexibility for refiners requiring maximum conversion from a higher nickel resid feed.
BoroCat, BASF’s first catalyst using novel Boron-Based Technology (BBT), provides high metals tolerance for lowest hydrogen and coke yields, and improves liquid product yields for over $0.30/bbl profitability improvement.
Boroflex uses the latest in metals passivation technology along with a coke-selective matrix to provide superior bottoms upgrading for residue feedstocks.
Based on BASF’s novel Boron Based Technology (BBT), Boroflex delivers 30% higher bottoms conversion for a 1.30 $/bbl profitability improvement.
Borotec® offers high performance for moderately contaminated feeds requiring maximum conversion.
BASF’s Borotec catalyst uses novel Boron-Based Technology (BBT) to provide higher conversion and metals tolerance for a moderate resid feedstock delivering a profitability improvement of $0.23/bbl
BASF’s FCC additive CONQUERNOX is a low NOx promoter for the catalytic oxidation of CO to CO2 in an FCC regenerator at low NOx emissions.
Based on BASF’s commercially proven Distributed Matrix Structures™ (DMS) technology, Converter delivers activity enhancement with the added benefit of cokeselective bottoms upgrading
Using Converter, gasoline production increased and slurry yields decreased at constant regenerator temperature during peak season
Converter is part of BASF’s Distributed Matrix Structures (DMS) technology and helps refiners increase profitability and gasoline yield while lowering operating costs
Gasoline production increased and slurry yields decreased at constant regenerator temperature during peak season with addition of Converter
Defender is a premium FCC catalyst engineered for heavy resid feeds that require outstanding vanadium tolerance and best-in-class coke selectivity.
Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) has maintained its crucial role in refining decades after its initial introduction owing to the flexibility it has as a process as well as the developments in its key enabler, the FCC catalyst. Boron-based technology (BBT) for passivation of contaminant metals in FCC catalysts represents one such development.
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Endurance is designed for moderate resid or hydrotreated resid feed applications needing enhanced metals passivation.
EnviroSOx delivers high SOx reduction performance to cost-effectively assist refiners in meeting tightening air quality limits on FCC regenerator off-gas emissions.
EnviroSOx, BASF’s latest Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) additive, shows superior performance by routinely delivering less than 25 ppm SOx even at high feed sulfur levels.
Applying BASF’s EnviroSOx additive, the PKN ORLEN Płock refinery was able to maintain FCC flue gas SOx emissions below 800 mg/Nm3 (@ 3 vol% O2) during a planned hydrocracker turnaround, enabling the FCC to process non-hydrotreated feed without sacrificing throughput.
BASF’s newest additive, Evolve, maximizes butylenes selectivity and production in the FCCU for refineries who value butylenes.
BASF’s EZ Flow works to improve fluidization characteristics of the FCC catalyst providing improved catalyst circulation
BASF’s joint publication with CEPSA on FCC catalyst deactivation studies makes clear that lowering the metal content, using a cracking deactivation method or moving to a steam-only deactivation campaign are the best options for FCC catalyst selection.
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Flex-Tec is a high activity catalyst for reducing mass transfer limitation and metals effects with contaminated feedstocks.
Flex-Tec is a premium resid FCC catalyst based on the Distributed Matrix Structures (DMS) technology providing high conversion and liquid yields even with heavy, highly contaminated resid FCC feeds
BASF’s Fortress NXT delivers superior metals passivation and increases liquid product yields
Fourte maximizes butylenes production in the FCCU and increases gasoline octane while preserving catalyst activity.
Fourte delivers higher butylenes yields for a $0.68 / bbl profitability improvement.
Next generation Fluid Catalytic Cracking Catalyst Performance for butylenes maximization over propylene
Based on BASF’s Prox-SMZ (Proximal Stable Matrix and Zeolite) technology, HDUltra is the most effective route to increasing LCO yield from an FCC unit.
HDXtra® is a premium FCC catalyst that helps refiners meet demand for diesel from their Vacuum Gas Oil (VGO) FCC units.
HDXtra® is a premium resid FCC catalyst based on the Prox-SMZ (Proximal Stable Matrix and Zeolite) technology that offers high matrix activity with enhanced coke selectivity to help refiners meet the growing need for diesel fuel
Luminate is a flexible FCC catalyst that delivers outstanding coke selectivity for increased yields of valuable liquid products.
Based on BASF’s new Improved Zeolite Y (IZY) technology, Luminate offers refiners improved coke selectivity and higher liquid yields.
Maximum Propylene Solution (MPS) combines Y-zeolite and ZSM-5 for synergies delivering high activity, propylene selectivity, and minimum delta coke.
Based on the combination of BASF’s awardwinning and commercially-proven Distributed Matrix Structures (DMS) technology and sulfur reduction technology, NaphthaClean gives the refiner both maximum gasoline production and maximum gasoline sulfur reduction.
Based on our commercially proven Distributed Matrix Structures™ (DMS) technology, NaphthaMax is designed to provide enhanced diffusion of feed molecules to pre-cracking sites that are located on the external, exposed surface of highly dispersed zeolite crystals.
NaphthaMax® III utilizes targeted process improvements that optimize rare earth addition and calcination sequences giving it more uniform catalyst properties. This makes NaphthaMax III highly coke-selective with increased zeolite hydrothermal stability meaning higher unit activity and increased light olefin selectivity.
NaphthaMax III, using BASF’s Distributed Matrix Structures (DMS) technology, can benefit refiners in need of high bottoms conversion and lower coke make
Hernando Salgado and Melissa Clough Mastry, BASF Refining Catalysts, offer a review of octane improvement methods in an FCC unit and assess each method’s advantages and disadvantages.
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BASF’s PetroMax FCC Catalyst provides a balance of matrix and zeolite activity for high conversion from hydrotreated and vacuum gas oil feeds.
Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) additive for the reduction of regenerator afterburn and CO emissions.
BASF has developed an innovative catalytic technology platform for maximizing distillate yields from a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit. This unique platform, designated Prox-SMZ for Proximal Stable Matrix and Zeolite, combines attributes from both high zeolite and high matrix activity catalysts.
For maximum propylene from the FCC unit, refiners should customise their catalyst for properties best suited to deep conversion that can handle residue feeds
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Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is an important process for the conversion of crude oil into valuable products including fuels, lubricants, and precursors for making other products.
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Stamina is a premium FCC catalyst that helps refiners processing resid feedstocks to meet the increased global demand for diesel fuels.
Stamina, BASF’s latest Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Catalyst offering from the Prox-SMZ platform, demonstrates 45% better bottoms upgrading at commercial refinery trial.
New Resid Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Catalyst Technology for Maximum Distillates Yield Demonstrated in Big West Oil’s Salt Lake City Refinery
In these challenging times, fluidized catalytic cracking units (FCCUs) aim to improve margins by processing poorer or different-quality feeds, while maintaining good yield performance.
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BASF’s USP CO Promoter catalyzes oxidation of CO to CO2 in an FCC regenerator. The USP promoted CO oxidation takes place in the dense phase in the regenerator and hence allows control of the CO content of the off-gas, as well as controlling the thermal CO afterburn in the dilute phase.
ZIP Olefins Additive, a ZSM-5-based additive has a multi-stage phosphorous treatment to maximize propylene yield and gasoline octane from the FCC unit
ZIP, BASF's latest Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Olefins Additive, produces maximum propylene while using less ZSM-5 Additive.
