Petrochemical Solutions

The Oil & Gas industry is experiencing an important transition fueled by:

  • A continuously growing demand for petrochemicals
  • Increasingly complex crude slates paired with low refinery profit margins
  • Augmented e-mobility capabilities contrasted by a stagnant demand for transportation fuels
  • Increasing investments towards circular economy initiatives like:
    • Incentivizing the use of biofuels and bio-based co-processed feedstocks
    • Growing interest in plastic recycling for plastic waste pyrolysis oil

 

Such a shift calls for the repurposing of billions of dollars’ worth of existing assets, triggering new investments in both existing petrochemical manufacturing technologies, as well as innovative crude oil-to-chemical (COTC) technologies.

Our solutions at PAC provide the following benefits to our petrochemical customers:

  • Unrivalled feedstock characterization technologies improving process optimization strategies
  • Full impurity analysis of olefins in a single run increasing efficiency
  • Wide range of sulfur and nitrogen analysis methods extending catalysts lifetime
  • Chemical and physical property measurements of aromatics enabling high product quality
  • Unique trace level measurements for both lab and online instruments improving process control
  • State-of-the-art solution for distillation with industry-leading precision

The conversion of varying available feedstocks into primary building blocks and then finally to 2nd & 3rd tier chemicals our summarized in below flowchart. The colored dots represent the relevant PAC solutions.

The process flow chart shows the selected pathways for the manufacturing of leading petrochemical products by various building blocks derived from broad range of different feedstocks. The PAC solutions for those streams are represented with dots and explained below in the legend table

PAC has a broad product portfolio for petrochemical industry. Our solutions cover both physical property and chemical analysis measurement needs ranging from lab to process. The available solutions are outlined below:

With broad product portfolio, PAC offers sets of solutions for the analysis of olefins, aromatics, various derivatives as well as of the emerging feedstocks.

 

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The Featured State of the Art Solutions

The preferred solutions below address the primary measurement needs for diverse range of petrochemical products

 

Nsure

ASTM D5453, D6667, D4629, D5176

NSure is a total sulfur and nitrogen analyzer that offers reliable and repeatable measurements over a wide range, even during process swings and ensures tight correlation with primary test methods. NSure’s updated technology guarantees ease of use and maintenance. This innovative process solutions for gas, LPG and liquid samples is ideal for online monitoring of blending and refinery operations, as well as petrochemical, wastewater and emissions monitoring.

Key Advantages

  • Combines analysis of S & N and goes down to ppb levels
  • Meet sulfur regulations and control your process with continuous measurements
  • Achieve precise measurements with correlation to primary test methods
  • Wide range of samples
  • User-friendly and easy maintenance

 

Olefin Purity Analyzer

ASTM D6159, D8098, D2163, D2504, D2505, D2712, D5504, D7423

Olefin Purity Analyzer combines four channels in two GC’s, which can operate in parallel to analyze low levels of hydrocarbons, oxygenates, sulfur components, trace gases in just one run.

It performs ethylene and propylene analysis according to D5234 and D5273 product specifications and solves measurement challenges like:

Key Advantages

  • Absorbance of active components, by having a fully inert sample path
  • Interferences from air with specially designed valve enclosures purged with Helium carrier gas to prevent air diffusion and improve detection limits
  • Low concentration measurement with high sensitivity detectors like HID & SCD
  • Issues due to co-elution’s of HC components with sulphur components are overcome by using an SCD over PFPD, where the SCD has a better linearity, higher selectivity and an improved stability over previous generations of SCD’s

 

SeNse

ASTM D5504, D5623, D7011, D7807

SeNse offers best in market performance for high return on investment for GC applications to determine sulfur species in hydrocarbon matrices.

Key Advantages

  • Best in market sensitivity
  • Pressure point in base ensures baseline stability
  • Enhanced furnace temperature control improves temperature accuracy and reduces downtime
  • New patented probe design improves catalyst capacity and stability of baseline

 

OptiDist

ASTM D86, D1078, D850, EN ISO3405, ISO 918, IP123, IP195, DIN51751, JIS K2254, NFN 07-002

OptiDist is the state-of-the-art solution for distillation of aromatics with industry-leading precision.

Key Advantages

  • Easy to use, one button straightforward operation
  • Superior precision from the first run
  • Fully automated regulation
  • Advanced Built-in safety features

 

 

Additional PAC Offerings

Additionally, PAC offers Gas Chromatography, physical property, elemental analysis and process solutions for the measurement requirements of olefins, aromatics, various feeds, as well as for 2nd & 3rd tier chemicals.

 

Gas Chromatography Solutions:

AC Reformulyzer® M4

SeNse - Sulfur Selective Detector

Hi-Speed RGA - Refinery Gas Component

OxyTracer - Traces Oxygenates

Detailed Hydrocarbon Analyzer (DHA)

Customized GC - Tailored Solutions

SIMDIS Analyzer

Flow Modulated GC*GC

 

Physical Property Solutions:

OptiFlash - Pensky Martens

 

Elemental Analysis Solutions:

ElemeNtS: Total Elemental Combustion Analyzer

 

Process Solutions:

MicroDist

 

Documentation:

1 Pagers:

Empowering Circular Economy: Petrochemical Industry’s Plastic Circularity Evolution

PAC_Petrochem-Process_Aromatics in Wastewater

Brochures:

Niche Solutions for the Petrochemical Industry

Optidist Brochure

Posters:

SeNse Carbonyl Sulfide in Propylene astm d5303

Application Notes:

GCxGC use for renewable fuels & pyrolysis oils

Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Oil: AC Reformulyzer M4® prefrac analysis

Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Oil: AC High Temperature Simdis analysis

Determination of Sulfur and Nitrogen in Pyrolysis Plastic Oil

OptiDist Analysis of Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Oil (WPPO)

OptiPMD Analysis of Waste Plastic Pyrolysis Oil (WPPO)

Nitrogen in High-Viscous Products

Trace Impurities

Analysis of Ultra low Sulfur Compounds

Analysis of Nitric Oxide

SeNse Sulfur in Naphtha astm d5623

SeNse Thiophene in benzene astm d7011

OptiDist Optimizer Function

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