Objectives

  • Aim at research excellence and bottom-up innovation in the field of petroleum refining and petrochemicals.
  • Establish a state-of-the-art facility to develop generic creator models to better understand the chemistry of catalytic reactions involving crude oil.
  • Conduct research projects using dedicated pilot to serve local petrochemicals industry and bridge the gap between bench- and industrial scale units.
  • Complement research facilities at IRC-RAC to cover: co-cracking of low-carbon streams; converting waste plastics to useful products; upgrading liquid hydrocarbons to chemicals and producing renewable and alternative fuels.
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Research Themes

Pilot Plants

Micro-Scale Flow Reactor (MSFR)

A continuous fixed-bed unit for evaluating catalyst performance using liquid and steam feeds.

Advanced Catalyst Evaluation Unit (ACE)

A fixed-fluidized bed unit to measure activity of catalysts to convert heavy oil to chemicals

Micro Activity Test Unit (MAT)

A fixed-bed unit to measure activity of catalysts to convert heavy oil fractions to fuels

Micro-Downer

Licensed catalytic cracking unit with different reactor configuration without regeneration

Multi-Purpose HP

Dual reactor system for removing sulfur from crude oil and for upgrading heavy oil fractions

Dual-Train Fixed-Bed

Dual reactor customized to handle wax for low carbon fuel production using CO2 and H2

Supporting Labs (IRC-RAC)

Computational Chemistry Lab

Sustainable Chemicals Lab

Fuels Upgrading Lab

Analytical Lab

Catalyst Design Lab

Reaction Engineering Lab

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