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Intertek Pilot Plants, Scientists and Laboratories provide extensive service capabilities for Catalyst Characterisation. Intertek personnel are experienced in catalysts and are experts in studying the parameters which affect catalyst performance. Intertek global pilot plant and supporting laboratory services can help with small to large scale, batch and continuous process projects.
Catalyst Evaluation Expertise includes:
Catalysts in petroleum refineries and chemical plants suffer degradation and other detrimental changes from operating conditions, and become fouled by reaction by-products or catalyst poisons in feedstocks. Catalyst poisoning causes catalyst activity reduction or catalyst selectivity changes, resulting in process reduction of product production and quality.
Preserving catalyst activity or optimal selectivity is vital to catalysts users. Not doing so means higher energy usage (through needing to ramp-up reaction temperature to maintain rate), plant shut-downs, catalyst regeneration or replacement, all adding to higher operating costs and lost production time. Deterioration in selectivity causes lost revenues because less of the desired product is made, or possibly the need for expensive reprocessing of the undesired products. Proper design of catalysts, careful manufacture and activation, and controlled exposure under reaction conditions are, therefore, vital to prolong useful life. Catalyst characterisation provides the means to probe the factors through which catalyst performance is determined. Characterisation of all these factors permits the researcher, manufacturer and user to optimise vital parameters to the activity, selectivity and longevity of catalysts.
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