AM-14-74 Dewaxing Challenging Paraffinic Feeds in North America

Description:

With more difficult and highly paraffinic feedstocks entering the market as well as increasingly more stringent diesel specifications, there is a growing need to provide alternative opportunities to upgrade diesel quality. Applying specialty catalysts and processes provides cost-effective ways to improve the cold flow properties of diesel ULSD units, giving refineries opportunities to expand market share and increase overall refinery profitability. This paper discusses a range of successfully developed and commercially-proven catalytic dewaxing solutions, some of which have been applied in the last decade in North American units to improve diesel product cold flow properties.