Catalysis News & Events
Experimental methods in chemical engineering: High throughput catalyst testing
Article published - Experimental methods in chemical engineering: High throughput catalyst testing - HTCT Carlos Ortega, Daria Otyuskaya, Erik‐Jan Ras, Luis D. Virla, Gregory S. Patience, Hendrik Dathe The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 99, Issue...
Avantium qualified by Axens to test Selective Acetylene Hydrogenation Catalysts
Avantium, a leading technology company in renewable chemistry and catalysis R&D systems and services, announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Avantium Catalysis, has been qualified by Axens to test Selective Acetylene Hydrogenation Catalysts. Axens, an...
The Catalysis Insider December 2020
Welcome to the December 2020 Catalysis Insider newsletter! Dear Reader, Firstly, I hope all of you, your family and friends are healthy and are coming through the Covid-19 pandemic in good spirits. I wonder how many of you, like me, did not expect that we would be in...
Global methodology for catalyst screening and optimization process. Application to mild hydrocracking – I&EC Research Nov 2020.
IFPEN’s experimental methodology using HTT Flowrence units by Avantium The aim of the paper is to illustrate a global experimental methodology used by IFPEN in order to optimize the operation of hydroprocessing units at the refinery. This involves the selection of...
SIE Neftehim validates Avantium for reforming catalyst testing
SIE Neftehim, LLC has validated Avantium’s high throughput technology for independent catalyst testing of naphtha reforming catalysts. SIE Neftehim is a Russian engineering company specialized in the development and introduction of oil refining and petrochemical...
New Avantium consultant David Denton, boosting Avantium’s gas-phase chemical catalysis successes in the US
Avantium’s high throughput test systems and services are key to our customers to efficiently optimize their catalytic processes. Due to the surge of interest in gas-phase applications, we are happy to announce David Denton will be supporting us to further these...
Albemarle validates Avantium for refinery catalyst testing
Albemarle has validated Avantium’s high throughput technology for independent catalyst testing of hydrocracking catalysts. Avantium performed a series of tests to evaluate hydrocracking catalysts from Albemarle using Avantium’s 16-parallel reactors micro-pilot plant....
Avantium performs independent hydrocracking catalyst testing for Petroineos
Petroineos Lavera Refinery contracted Avantium Catalysis to perform an independent catalyst evaluation of several Pretreat and Hydrocracking systems from multiple suppliers for their upcoming HCU catalyst selection. We evaluated the performance of both the Pretreat...
