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

Major Units

Dual-Train Fixed-Bed

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

Multi-Purpose

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

Micro-Downer

Licensed catalytic cracking unit with different reactor configuration without regeneration

Distillation Unit

A fractional distillation column for hydrocarbon separation

Micro-Scale Flow Reactor (MSFR)

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

Micro Activity Test Unit (MAT)

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

Advanced Catalyst Evaluation Unit (ACE)

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

Riser Simulator

A bench-scale riser simulator designed to evaluate FCC catalyst performance and reaction kinetics under controlled conditions representat...

  

Supporting Labs

Computational Chemistry Lab

Sustainable Chemicals Lab

Fuels Upgrading Lab

Analytical Lab

Catalyst Design Lab

Reaction Engineering Lab

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