Catalyst Regeneration
Hydrogen and nitrogen are widely used in the process of renewing a catalyst or making it reusable after it has accumulated reaction residues such as coke.
Oil Refining
Gases, technology, service, and equipment to improve safety and efficiency
Reliable Gas Supply for Your Refinery Needs
- Hydrogen is widely used in refining processes to remove impurities found in crude oil such as sulfur to meet stringent product and environmental specifications. Removing these components allows gasoline and diesel to burn cleaner and thus makes hydrogen a critical component in the production of cleaner fuels needed by efficient internal combustion engines.
- Oxygen enrichment can help increase capacity or give refiners the ability to process crude blends of various densities and sulfur content.
- Nitrogen does not react with most materials, making it an excellent blanketing and purging gas that can be used to protect valuable products from harmful contaminants. One of its most important uses is to eliminate flammability risks in reactor vessels and storage tanks.
Applications
Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Optimization
Air Products provides complete technical and project support for implementation of FCC oxygen enrichment to boost FCC capacity.
Hydroprocessing
Hydroprocessing in the oil refining industry includes a series of chemical reactions such as hydrogenation, hydrocracking and hydrotreating. Hydrogen plays a key role in these processes allowing refineries to comply with stringent product specifications and environmental requirements for fuel production.
Line or Vessel Drying
Temporary nitrogen supply for drying piping, vessels, and equipment.
Pipeline Testing and Maintenance
Safe, fast, reliable temporary nitrogen supply for pipeline applications like maintenance, product displacement, pressure testing, drying, and inerting.
Sulfur Removal Unit Optimization
Air Products provides a full range of proven oxygen enrichment technologies to boost SRU capacity from 10 to 100+%.
Sulfuric Acid Regeneration
Sulfuric acid regeneration is a combustion-based process that can benefit from the use of oxygen to boost production without having to invest in capital equipment.
Syngas Solutions
Gasification converts fossil or biomass based hydrocarbons into syngas for making various downstream derivatives.
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Hydrogen Perspectives for 21st Century Refineries
Read about how hydrogen has helped the changing needs of the oil refining market including solutions for reducing cost though advanced hydrogen management, capacity revamps, and over-the-fence hydrogen supply.
Kochi, India Industrial Gas Complex
Working with our local partner, Air Products created the largest industrial complex of its kind in India to produce vital hydrogen and power, enabling more clean fuels that are reducing pollution and creating a better quality of life.
Maximizing Refinery Flexibility
Read how oxygen enrichment technology can optimize the operating flexibility in refineries and maximize profitability.
Gases
Air Products gases, typically provided in gaseous and liquid form, enable customers in a wide range of industries to improve their environmental performance, product quality, and productivity.
Hydrogen
Valued for its reactive and protective properties, and used by many industries such as electronics, foods, glass, chemicals, refining and more can benefit from its unique properties to improve quality, optimize performance and reduce costs.
Nitrogen
Useful as a gas, for its inert properties, and as a liquid for cooling and freezing. Virtually any industry can benefit from its unique properties to improve yields, optimize performance and make operations safer.
Oxygen
In addition to its use as a respiratory gas for healthcare applications, its strong oxidizing properties benefit many industries by improving yields, optimizing performance, lowering costs and reducing carbon footprint compared to other fuels.
APEX Temporary Gas Supply
For over 40 years, customers have relied on Air Products Express Services (APEX) for safe, reliable and fast emergency or temporary H₂, N₂, or O₂ gas supply. APEX Services can be used during plant turnarounds, or start-ups to maintain current operations or to bring the plant back on line quickly and safely. When a refinery’s regular gas supply source is unavailable or to supplement existing gas supply during periods of peak demand to boost profitability contact Air Products APEX Services.
Call the APEX hotline anytime, 24/7: 1-800-APEXGAS and get a timely assessment of your needs.
Customer Plant Support Services
Air Products services the following customer owned plants:
- Air separation
- LNG
- Hydrogen recovery
- Helium
- Hydrogen production
- Other hydrocarbon processing plants
The portfolio of services we provide include:
- Plant assessments
- Operation and maintenance
- Technical Services and operating training
- Spare parts and inventory control
- Turbomachinery expanders
- Equipment and modifications
- Hydrogen plant support
On-site Gas Generation
On-site gas generation helps sustainability-minded customers lower their carbon footprint, boost energy efficiency, increase throughput, enhance end product quality, and improve environmental performance.
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Related Industries
Air Products offers thousands of products and services to a variety of different industries. This scope and experience has enabled us to develop a deeper understanding of the demands of these industries, and of your particular needs.
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