High throughput experimentation can be a valuable tool to accelerate the development of catalysts and processes in many refinery applications. In order to be able to generate test data that are close or identical to process relevant conditions, hte has developed a new parallel testing technology for testing of catalyst volumes of up to 15 ml.  hte's 16-fold parallel testing reactor systems for testing of hydroprocessing catalysts are capable of processing VGO, heavy VGO and bio-oils at temperatures of up to 450�C, and pressures up to 170 bar. Both on-line gas phase analytical results and off-line results are combined to obtain a complete product distribution with mass balances being closed at 100 � 2 %.  hte's novel 16-fold reactor systems for catalytic reforming of heavy naphtha are specifically designed for extrudate testing under industrially relevant conditions. One of the challenges for this unique technology was the development of a pure online gas-phase analysis method with a comparably short cycle time.

High throughput experimentation for catalyst and process development in refinery applications

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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