(325g) 100 Years of Petroleum Refining Catalysts
AIChE Annual Meeting
2008
2008 Annual Meeting
AIChE Centennial: ChE Research and Technology – Past and Future
Hundred Years of Advancements in Fuels and Petrochemicals
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 4:50pm to 5:20pm
100 years ago in 1908, Henry Ford introduced the Model T Ford and ushered in the age when cars were affordable to middle class Americans. At that time petroleum refining consisted primarily of distillation only, and the amount of gasoline required to fuel a large number of automobiles was simply not available. However, a major change was on the horizon for petroleum refining ? the widespread use of catalytic processing to greatly improve the yield of fuels. Without these new catalytic processes, the age of the automobile would not have been possible. This presentation briefly reviews the basic catalysts and their historical improvements for the five most important catalytic refining processes: hydroprocessing (hydrotreating and hydrocracking), cracking, isomerization, alkylation, and reforming.
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