Engineer Mohammad Hassan Foghani, Engineer Elnaz Mohammadi Pour and Dr. Sara Tariqi, with the guidance and guidance of Dr. Sajjad Habibzadeh, a member of the Amirkabir University faculty, called “Catalytic Catalytic Production and Correction”.
“The process of producing gasoline in the coury depends directly on the strategic catalysts used in the FCC unit,” said Foghani. However, before, there was a significa dependence on the external samples of these catalysts.
He described FCC catalysts as one of the most sophisticated catalysts used in the refinery industry, composed of four main compones of zeolite, matrix, filler and binder, and coinued: “Operating these catalysts early can cause heavy damage to the refineries and threaten the coury’s energy security.”
The researcher noted: During the resuscitation process, the catalyst structure is exposed to three destructive factors including high temperatures, water vapor and the presence of metal pesticides such as vanadium; Factors that lead to the destruction and collapse of its structure. Accordingly, the project focuses on the developme of selective metal traps to increase vanadium to increase the resistance and sustainability of the catalysts.
Successful implemeation of the project in collaboration with the industry
This research project is implemeed in partnership with Amirkabir University of Technology and the first FCC catalyst manufacturer in the Middle East. The results of this project are now used in the company’s manufactured catalysts used in the FCC/RFCC Unit Shazand Arak Refinery and have significaly improved the stability of these catalysts on an industrial scale.
In addition to increasing stability against the harsh conditions of resuscitation, the use of this new technology has reduced the cost of catalyst production and reduced the consumption of rare earth metals; A issue that plays an importa role in reducing the coury’s value.
“In the first phase, comprehensive studies based on scieific articles and pates to ideify the catalyst destruction mechanism, then using a new structure based on Proskite, were designed and syhesized to selectively attracted and syhesized,” said Elnaz Mohammadi Pour, a researcher at the project. It was developed in the laboratories of Knowledge Based Company and the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of Amirkabir University of Technology and was put io the FCC catalyst composition after optimization.
He said that the performance of the new catalyst was evaluated in simulated conditions with the industrial environme, adding that the results showed significa improveme over the previous samples. The findings of this study are published in the accredited Fuel Journal (Q1 rank and effect coefficie of 6.7).
Mohammadi Pour said one of the most sophisticated parts of the project was to optimize the formulation and corol of the final catalyst properties, and coinued: The high cost of performance tests was one of the economic challenges of the project, which was possible with the financial support of the chemical knowledge company.
One of the competitive advaages of the project was a significa increase in stability, activity and catalytic selection, high capacity to attract vanadium pollutas and increase gasoline production efficiency by up to 5 % and noted: The results of this study can be used in the oil refining industry, especially in quality gasoline production. Also, given the success of the prosecite structure in increasing the stability of the catalyst, the next phase of the project will be to reduce the amou of rare earth metals in the catalyst formulation.
Mohammadi Pour added: “The project, which has been completed over a two -year period, has no similar iernal sample and its production technical knowledge is currely only available to renowned companies such as Basf and Grace.
According to him; The FCC Catalyst Production and Modification Project aims to eliminate feed pollutas “is not only an importa step in localizing the coury’s advanced catalytic technology, but it can pave the way for the production of other strategic refinery catalysts and coribute to the savings of foreign currency and promotion of indigenous technology.
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