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BCMT™-500 and BCMT-500-LRT

Too often, profitability is lost because refiners lack adequate accessibility and bottoms cracking power in their catalyst. Ketjen has developed BCMT-500 additive, which features high accessibility and provides powerful functional bottoms conversion sites. BCMT-500 delivers many pre-cracking sites and high metals tolerance, while making up only a small fraction of the circulating catalyst inventory.

Contaminant metals such as nickel, sodium, vanadium and calcium destroy the acidic cracking sites of the catalyst inventory and catalyze dehydrogenation reactions. Modest amounts of calcium and inorganic iron form layers around the catalyst particle that act as barriers between the feed and the active sites. As a result, the accessibility, as measured by the Ketjen Accessibility Index (KAI), drops. Consequently, the larger feed molecules are no longer adequately converted once the KAI drops below its critical value. Left untreated, severe cases of iron and/or calcium poisoning result in conversion losses as high as 10 vol% (see Figure 1).

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