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Direct Refining:
Increasingly
heavy crude oils require more and more energy to be refined.
With our
technology we transform heavy crude oils into lighter hydrocarbons to
significantly reduce energy consumption of next process steps (distillation or
the respective cracking processes).
Distillate Residuals:
Treatment of steadily increasing Atmospheric and Vacuum Distillation Residues (ADR & VDR) causes increasing energy consumption.
We use our technology as an alternative, fast, robust and low-cost cracking process to transform highly viscous and sulfurous heavy oils obtained at the end of a petrochemical refinery process to light hydrocarbons via biocracking.
We expect significantly higher profitability in the refining process due to:
1. Energy savings in refineries of 30% and subsequent lesser emissions.
2. A higher productivity due to an increased utilization of the crude oil appears to be highly probable.
Excellent results have been constantly achieved; further tests and studies are ongoing.
Application:
Distillation Records / Total Recovery Rate for Arab Light:
Comparison Before and After Treatment
Untreated Arab Light
Treated Arab Ligh
Treatment of San Miguel heavy crude (Texas, USA)
No agitation, 60C water bath temperature, after 24h of treatment:
Feedstock is San Miguel oil province (TX, USA) bitumen.
Analysis of the treated product seen in the video clip has zero alkanes >C26.
Agent volume used is about the same as feedstock volume.
We expect the following direct business benefits: