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UOP Adsorbents in Petrochemical Production

For more than 50 years, UOP has been a global leader in supplying technology and products to the olefins industry.

Today, we continue to lead the market with new innovations and improvements on existing technology, products, and equipment. UOP is the world’s leading licensor of propane dehydrogenation technology. Our Oleflex process facilitates the production of more than two billion pounds of propylene per year, while our molecular sieve desiccants are used by more than 75% of the ethylene producers in the world. Our most recent innovations enable us to offer solutions in newest areas of the olefins industry.

We can design adsorption systems, provide on-site service for your adsorbent related problems, and supply you with the highest quality adsorbents, manufactured and sourced globally to meet your specific needs. The purification of olefin streams for polymer plant feedstocks is extremely demanding, requiring advanced adsorbents and technology to protect polymerization catalysts and achieve the highest grade of polyolefin products and properties.

You can rely on UOP's adsorbent products for effective dehydration of highly reactive petrochemical streams from ethylene to styrene. The demanding requirements of polymer grade monomer products can be met by using UOP's specialty adsorbents. Our products can handle trace contaminant removal in many processes from regenerative adsorbents for sulfur and nitrogen compounds to oxygenates and mercury, to adsorbents for solvents and co-monomer steams, as well as non-regenerative adsorbents for arsine and sulfur compounds.

UOP adsorbents have been commercially proven at facilities around the world. All are rigorously designed to achieve long life and extensively tested to ensure they are suitable for use in reactive streams.

Find out more about how adsorbents are used in petrochemical facilities by contacting us directly using our information request form or by calling one of our worldwide sales offices.

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