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Hydrogen

If you’re like most refiners, you face the constant challenge of producing a product slate that must conform to ever tightening low-sulfur fuel specifications. Of course, low-sulfur fuel production requires ample supplies of hydrogen. For this reason, hydrogen management can be one of the most critical factors in the ultimate profitability of your refinery.

High purity hydrogen is consumed in any hydrotreating and hydrocracking processes for the removal of sulfur and nitrogen compounds, as well as in heavy hydrocarbon cracking and in the saturation of aromatic compounds. Fortunately, the catalytic reforming process in your refinery is a major source of hydrogen. UOP can provide you with the technology you need to upgrade this hydrogen into high purity hydrogen.

UOP can also analyze your hydrogen balance situation and find ways to recover by-product and off-gas hydrogen to improve your overall efficiency and profitability.
For over thirty years, UOP has provided hydrogen recovery process technology in the form of pressure swing adsorption (PSA) and hydrogen membrane units.

To find out how UOP’s hydrogen management solutions can help you, contact our experts today using our information request form.

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