Process catalyst is playing a very important role in economy. From statistics, there are more than 90% of the chemical manufacturing process and also more than 20% of the industrial product are produced by undergo catalytic steps. In oil industry, also known as petrol refinery industry contain almost entirely of catalytic process. The diagram below shows the world consumption of process catalysis:-
The largest petrol refining catalyst is used in catalytic cracking while the largest-volume products are alkylation and follow by FCC catalyst. Other catalysts also used in hydrotreating, hydrocracking, alkylation and reforming process.
There are many catalysts can be used in the oil industry for each process of petroleum refinery. The very first process that included the using of catalyst is the catalytic cracking process. Briefly, a catalytic process is used to break up the large hydrocarbon bonds from naphtha fraction into smaller chain and more useful material. For modern refinery process, fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit is widely used. It is the most important conversion process in petroleum refineries which use to convert high-boiling hydrocarbons molecules of crude oil into more valuable products and useful gasoline. This process will be taken place under high temperature and high pressure without catalyst. Therefore, catalyst is used in this process to lower the temperature and pressure used.
The most recent catalyst used in the modern petroleum refinery is zeolites which is a complex compound of aluminosilicates with large lattices of aluminium, oxygen atoms and silicon which carrying negative charge. It is desired for FCC catalyst because it has good stability to high temperature, high activity, low coke production...
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...tion and also hydrogenation process. It is an active carrier to do the complementary reaction. High-purity alumina as a carrier with acid functionality can be moderate by controlling amount of chloride added to the support. By combining acid with metal components, it form a dual-function catalytic system that potentially convert low-octane naphtha and paraffins into high-octane gasoline. Promoter has been added to increase the stability of the catalyst by moderating the rate of coke formation. Platinum-Rhenium ( Pt-Re)is one of the catalyst.
Lastly, there are few more catalysts can be found in oil industry and played important role in specific process. Refer to the table below:
Unit Operation Catalyst Catalyst support
Hydrodesulphurization Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) Alumina Support
Ruthenium disulphide
Catalytic Reforming Platinum
Rhenium
Paladium
The olefins are also important for petrochemical industries due to their use as main building blocks for many for industrial and domestic applications.
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After the oil/gas mixture is drawn from the ground, it is then stored into a storage tank and allowed to rest for a while. Then the gas is piped off to a set of distillation columns to clean up the ethane. In order to activate the chemical reaction necessary to separate the ethane, a thermal cracking unit (a sort of long heated tube) i.e. a plug flow reactor is used. After a series of distillations, ethylene exits the tube.
In order to gain strong insight into the surface chemistry of silica we have perform a thorough literature search. Our goal is to identify the pioneer research performed on silica and silica supported catalyst. Particular interest lies in silica-water-cobalt and silica-alcohol-cobalt systems. This study is both on macro and micro level so that a complete theoretical base can be established. From this theoretical knowledge, key areas to look upon will be identified and a design of experiments will be established. The goal is to develop a both efficient and effective product (catalyst) using a novel methodology developed from past research.
The Olefins II Unit makes hydrocarbons from naphtha or natural gas using furnaces. After distillation, the p...
Predictions may be made about the suitability of possible catalysts by assuming that the mechanism of catalysis consists of two stages, either of which can be first:
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Abstract: Enzymes are catalysts therefore we can state that they work to start a reaction or speed it up. The chemical transformed due to the enzyme (catalase) is known as the substrate. In this lab the chemical used was hydrogen peroxide because it can be broken down by catalase. The substrate in this lab would be hydrogen peroxide and the enzymes used will be catalase which is found in both potatoes and liver. This substrate will fill the active sites on the enzyme and the reaction will vary based on the concentration of both and the different factors in the experiment. Students placed either liver or potatoes in test tubes with the substrate and observed them at different temperatures as well as with different concentrations of the substrate. Upon reviewing observations, it can be concluded that liver contains the greater amount of catalase as its rates of reaction were greater than that of the potato.
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The catalytic process occurs at lower temperature anf offers higher selectivity but requires frequent regeneration of the catalyst. Then, the products are cooled and introduced into a pair of separators which separate the unreacted hydrogen. The unreacted hydrogen is compressed and recycle back to the feed and reactor. The products that leaving the separators are heated before introduced into a distillation column which the toluene is separated from the stream and recycle back to the...
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