Spent lube processing

High tolerance to feed contaminants

In addition to aromatics and sulfur, spent lubes contain substantial amounts of silicon, phosphorus, and zinc. These are feed contaminants that lead to deactivation of hydroprocessing catalysts used in the re-refining process.

Topsoe can help solve the problem. Our portfolio of catalysts offer high tolerance to feed contaminants, while dramatically lowering aromatics and sulfur content in the feed. In fact, our re-refining can even improve cloud point and viscosity index (VI), improving the quality of your base oil from Group I, to Group II or even Group III.

TK-562 BRIM® catalyst

Catalyst specifically developed for Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) pretreatment applications.

TK-569 HyBRIM™ catalyst

TK-569 HyBRIM™ belongs to the new generation of extremely high-active catalysts based on the novel HyBRIM™ technology. It provides exceptionally high hydrodenitrogenation (HDN) and ...

TK-609 HyBRIM™ catalyst

TK-609 HyBRIM™ is a new generation, high-activity NiMo catalyst based on the novel HyBRIM™ technology. TK-609 HyBRIM™ is optimized for use as a first-stage catalyst in hydrocrackers, where ...

TK-941 catalyst

A hydrocracking catalyst for maximum hydrogenation TK-941 catalyst is part of TOPSOE™’s hydrocracking red series developed for maximum hydrogenation.

TK-943 catalyst

A hydrocracking catalyst for diesel TK-943 is part of TOPSOE™’s hydrocracking blue series of catalysts developed for maximum cold ﬂow properties of diesel.

TK-971 catalyst

A hydrocracking catalyst for reduction of overcracking TK-971 is a zeolitic NiW-based hydrocracking catalyst with very high activity.

TK-611 HyBRIM™ catalyst

A catalyst for maximum HDN of straight run and cracked fractions in the VGO range

TK-6001 HySwell™ catalyst

An ultra high-activity catalyst for maximum volume swell.

TK-594 HyBRIM™ catalyst

Extremely high-active catalyst for improved product density and high volume swell.

Revamping hydroprocessing units

There are many good business reasons for considering revamping a hydroprocessing unit, for instance to react faster to fluctuations in crude oil supply and process more refractive and difficult ...

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