R&D / TECHNOLOGY
Our R&D efforts focus on developing innovative materials and process solutions that address real industrial challenges and support a more sustainable future.
Material and process problems in this industry are specific: a feed, a unit and a downstream specification decide what will work, and a solution that fits one plant can be the wrong answer in the next. Development work is therefore organised around the requirement in front of it.
The work covers catalysts, adsorbents and process materials, and it is assessed technically — against the operating envelope the material will actually see — before it is proposed.
Four steps, in the order they happen on a real requirement.
The process, the unit and the downstream specification that decide what the material has to achieve.
Matching a material, a grading and a protection strategy to the duty, or evaluating an existing one against it.
Confirming the combination against the reactor, the internals and the operating envelope it will run in.
Support through loading and unloading planning, monitoring after start-up and the technical questions a cycle raises.
Knowledge areas the published material describes, grouped for reading rather than claimed as separate departments.
Hydrotreating duties across naphtha, kerosene and gas oil cuts, where the feed, the unit and the product specification decide the selection.
Industrial silica gel grades for drying and purification duties, selected against the stream rather than the name.
Technical work that starts with process data and ends with a specification the unit can actually run.
Support through the parts of a cycle where technical input has a measurable effect.