Hydroprocessing technologies are presently in high demand and are projected to be in even further demand in the future due to the need to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements and to process increasingly difficult fossil-fuel derived feedstocks and biorenewables.  The versatility of hydroprocessing in removal of heterocyclic sulfur and nitrogen contaminants and rearrangement of the carbon skeleton has made it indispensible to meet the societal demand for clean transportation fuels as well as petrochemical feedstocks. The two main branches of hydroprocessing, namely hydrotreating and hydrocracking, have evolved greatly in recent year benefiting from intensive research efforts in academic as well as industrial laboratories around the world. A great deal of benefit has been derived from large advances in available tools to characterize surface and bulk properties of catalytic materials and to determine with great specificity the structural and compositional properties of complex feeds and products.  Such tools have helped guide catalyst and process design strategies and have enabled a molecular level approach to accelerate development in this increasingly important set of technologies.

Hydroprocessing: Versatile technologies to meet today's evolving needs

242nd National Meeting (2011)

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