Gasoline Desulfurization
UOP’s gasoline desulfurization technologies give you the flexibility
to achieve your FCC post-treating objectives against the backdrop of tightening
gasoline sulfur specifications.
Our unique multi-technology approach not only enables you to desulfurize FCC
naphtha and control product octane, but it offers the potential to improve
feedstock and product flexibility, increase on stream efficiencies, reduce
operating costs and enhance product blending capabilities.
Traditionally, refiners have used a naphtha splitter to separate the naphtha
into two or three streams. Once the naphtha is separated, refiners can apply
Merox technology to the light material to extract the mercaptans predominant
in this lower boiling range fraction of the naphtha. Refiners can then apply
the SelectFining or ISAL technology to the heavier naphtha to simultaneously desulfurize the
FCC naphtha while controlling the octane of the hydrotreated product.
In instances when the naphtha splitter has a mid-cut stream, the material can
be sent to a SelectFining unit, depending
on the processing objectives.
No matter which approach you take at your refinery, UOP’s gas desulfurization
technologies give you the flexibility to get exactly what you need
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Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC)
Treating (Merox)
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