Patented Fast Reactor Cooling For Major Turnaround At A Large US Refinery
- The Challenge
Fast and reliable reactor cooling solution needed for a deactivated catalyst during a planned Turnaround
- The Solution
A unique patented cooling solution which significantly reduces the Turnaround time, getting a reactor back online quicker
- The Impact
Accelerated Turnaround schedule and attractive financial return
Client:Major refinery
Location:North America
Sectors:Petrochemical and refining
The challenge
Fast and reliable reactor cooling solution needed for a deactivated catalyst during a planned Turnaround
A Houston based refinery wanted to cool their hydrotreating reactor quicker during a planned Turnaround.
Cooling was needed to enable faster entry into the reactor by Turnaround personnel to remove the deactivated catalyst.
Nitrogen is traditionally used to cool a hydrotreater fixed bed reactor, however this is an expensive and slow, taking around 5 days to cool the reactor catalyst down, meaning the refinery process is offline longer.
The faster the refinery can cool the catalyst down, the faster they can finish the Turnaround and get back to full production.
Aggreko Process Services (APS) partnered with the customer ahead of the turnaround to design and install a process system based on the anticipated design conditions and recommended a new approach using our unique patented method.