Oxygen is widely used in refineries to increase the capacity of Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) plants and Sulfur Recovery Units (SRU), increase process heater and hydrogen plant capacity and efficiencies, and to improve wastewater treatment operations.

Hydrogen is essential in today’s refining industry for upgrading heavy crude oils into refined fuels, and helping to meet increasingly tighter transportation fuel specifications.

An industrial gas used to blanket storage tanks and purge pipelines, nitrogen can also strip Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) from wastewater and reduce VOC emissions.

Carbon Dioxide

Reduce CO and NOx emissions up to 60% and increase the operational flexibility of your Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit with our proprietary CONOx application.

Improve the regenerator capacity of your Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC) Unit by up to 35% with our oxygen enrichment technology.

Applying our oxy-fuel combustion technology to your fired heater will decrease fuel consumption and increase capacity, ultimately improving heater efficiency and reducing NOx emissions. Oxy-fuel combustion is a great way of debottlenecking a heater with minimal capital outlay.

Achieve 10-15% incremental hydrogen production from your steam methane reformer (SMR) using oxygen injection in the combustion side of the reformer.

Turn almost any refinery fuel gas stream, including those with high levels of olefins and heavier hydrocarbons, into an acceptable steam methane reformer (SMR) or gas-turbine feed. This technology is also a great alternative to standard hydrotreating for reducing organic sulfur levels in fuel gas to meet increasingly stringent environmental goals. Hydrogen and LPG fractions can also be recovered from refinery fuel gas streams with our refinery gas processing technology.

Increase your Sulfur Recovery Unit (SRU) capacity oxygen injection.

Using the same liquid nitrogen source that is already used in the refinery for blanketing and purging, this industrial application can condense VOCs in a process stream, returning valuable products back to your operation and preserving the nitrogen for purging and blanketing operations.

We do more than provide industrial gases, supply systems and applications to the refining industry. We work with you to optimize every step of your process. From consultation to implementation and use, we offer a range of industrial services that help you monitor and manage your industrial gas supplies, hydrogen and refinery fuel gas balances, and improve the overall operation of your refinery.