These units include naphta hydrotreating, vacuum gas oil hydrotreating, amine regeneration unit,
catalytic reforming unit and catalytic cracking unit.
This can be done by incorporating processes such as
catalytic reforming, which produces more higher-octane aromatic compounds such as benzene, or isomerization and alkylation which produce high-octane iso-paraffins.
Petron is in talks with service providers for its continuous
catalytic reforming unit project, which would allow it to produce 'a combination of fuels, mostly petrochemicals such as mixed xylene, toluene and benzene.'
Amin said that the overhaul of the refinery's distillation, liquid gas,
catalytic reforming, visbreaker and kerosene purification units took 27, 19, 21, and 26 days, respectively, which was unprecedented in some units.
'We are talking to service providers for our CCRU (continuous
catalytic reforming unit) project,' Petron general manager Lubin B.
According to him, the team is equally working on other units such as the Kerosene hydro-treating unit,
Catalytic reforming unit, sour water stripping unit and flared gas recovery unit.
Processes for this refinery were licenced in mid-2000 from IFP for naphtha hydrotreatment, light paraffin isomerisation, de-isohexanizer recycling, and a
catalytic reforming benzene elimination unit.
Catalytic reforming yields so-called reformate, which is rich in the aromatic compounds benzene, toluene and xylene (BTX).
Among their topics are green carbon nanomaterials from biomass to carbon, carbon materials and their energy conversion storage applications, the
catalytic reforming of biogas into syngas using supported noble-metal and transition-metal catalysts, nanostructured solid catalysts in the conversion of cellulose and cellulose-derived platform chemicals, chemocatalytic processes for producing bio-based chemicals from carbohydrates, and tunable biomass transformations by means of photocatalytic nanomaterials.