Second Quarter 2009 Issue of the Worldwide Refinery Processing Review

This issue of the Review covers recent hydrotreating and product treating and blending technology advances, technical challenges, and R&D work. Additionally, the "Latest Refining Technology Developments & Licensing" section provides updates on various refining technologies.

In the hydrotreating section, new products and topics include:

• An up-to-date look at the hydrotreating market with respect to increasing fuel demands and impending GHG emissions regulations;
• Albemarle's new STARS KF 770 catalyst for ULSD production and STAX technology for optimizing catalyst performance in hydrotreaters;
• Axens's HR 626 catalyst for producing ULSD and Catapac catalyst loading technology;
• Chevron Lummus Global's catalysts for hydrotreating naphthas, diesel, and LCO (ICR 301, ICR 302, ICR 303 STARS, ICR 304 STARS, ICR 134, ICR 154, and ICR 157);
• Criterion's Centinel DN 3110 for improving cold flow properties, CENTRA DC-2618 and DN-3630, ASCENT PLUS DC-2533, and SDD-800 and SDD-821;
• Eurecat's sampling, analysis, and segregation (SAS) service;
• Haldor Topsøe's TK-560, TK-561, and TK-562 for FCC feed pretreaters and TK-578 for ULSD production;
• Sinopec's ULSD production catalyst, RS-1000;
• Süd-Chemie 's Hydrex-G catalyst for dewaxing gas oils and middle distillates;
• Discussion of diesel dewaxing processes for improving cold flow properties;
• Simulation tools offered by Repsol YPF (REPHDS and SEGUIM_HDS);
• Recent R&D work in published literature and patents relating to hydrotreating technologies including naphtha hydrotreating, ULSD production, and hydrotreating of gas oils and LCO.

In the product treating and blending section, new products and topics include:

• Updates on commercial product treating offerings from Axens, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Merichem, Petrco, and UOP;
• GTC Technology's GT-BTX-PluS treating process;
• Emerging product treatment technologies from Grace Davison, Indian Oil Corp., Lyondell Chemical, RTI, SulphCo, Trans Ionics, and UniPure Energy;
• Product blending control systems from ABB, AspenTech, Emerson Process Management, Honeywell, HPI Consultants, Invensys Performance Solutions, Jiskoot Quality Systems, OR Soft, Technip, and Yokogawa;
• Recent R&D work covered in patents and literature relating to non-hydrogen desulfurization (with adsorbents, extraction, and membrane technologies), oxidative desulfurization, biodesulfurization, and biofuels blending technologies.