Refiners
As the world's oil reserves are depleting, refiners are increasingly making use of heavy crudes and the drive is to generate more value out of the bottom of barrel. Bottom of the barrel technologies produce residues which contain high concentration of metals which must be recovered for environmental and economic reasons.
GSAE's services range from techno economic assessments through technology licensing to commissioning and operating. In certain circumstances GSAE will offer 'over the fence' metal recovery/environmental control facilities.
GSAE's technology enables refiners to extract metals, preventing their release into the environment also feeding these high value metals back into the supply chain. Where catalytic slurry technologies are employed by refiners, economic recovery of catalysts can form a vital element of refinery operations.
The processes that could use GSAE's technology include;
- Coking
- Flexicoking
- Slurry hydrocracking
- Spent Catalysts
- Gasification
GSAE's technology provides numerous environmental and cost saving benefits to refiners of heavy crudes and bottom of the barrel processes.
Benefits
- Environmentally sustainable process reducing toxic waste generation
- Provides a sustainable and secure route for the disposal of refinery residues using bottom of the barrel processes
- Converting hazardous waste streams into non hazardous, non toxic material
- Reduction of landfill costs
- Produces an 'uncontaminated' carbon product
- Allows high value metals to be fed back into the supply chain
- Safe and reliable technology - tried and tested at commercial scale
- Delivers strong financial performance
Visit www.gsa-ltd.co.uk for further information on GSA's design capabilities
