The i-MAX additive
has gone through rigorous testing at lab scale, pilot plant
scale and commercial plant trial. At all levels of testing,
it has successfully demonstrated its performance.
| Lab Performance |
| At constant conversion & 5
wt% i-MAX Conc. : |
| » Dry gas
– No change |
| » LPG yield- Increases |
| » Propylene yield-Increases |
| » Coke- Decreases |
| » At constant coke, CLO yield-
Decreases |
| » Selectivity of propylene
is 27-35 wt% of LPG |
| » Selectivity C4 olefins is
31-36 wt% of LPG |
| Commercial
Plant Performance |
| LPG |
Increases by 2.5 –
3.6 wt% |
| Gasoline |
Increase in Gasoline yield |
| Bottom |
Decreases by 0.7 –
1.5 wt% |
| Coke |
No Change |
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 Potential
customer of i-MAX |
 |
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Any refinery with existing
FCCU/ RFCCU with high LPG demand. |
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Refineries integrated or
planning to integrate FCCU with downstream petrochemicals
for exploiting the higher yield of propylene/ butylenes. |
IndianOil R&D Centre is well equipped with stateof-
the-art testing facilities for FCC catalyst and
additives. These facilities are used for evaluation
of physical properties and performance of fresh
and equilibrium FCC catalyst and additives.
Having a well-furnished catalyst development
laboratory with spray dryers, crystallizer, mixing
vessels, IndianOil R&D Centre has developed
and demonstrated many formulations of FCC
catalysts and additives. IndianOil R&D Centre
has also facilities for developing NaY zeolite,
ZSM-5 zeolite at lab scale and pilot plant scale.
In addition, IndianOil has also developed a
kinetics based FCC process simulation model
(FCCMOD) which is used for performance
prediction of FCC catalyst and additives based
on micro reactor data generated for any new
feed or catalyst. This proprietary process
simulator has also been used for predicting plant
performance of i-MAX additives.
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