Catalysts
Output Production
Hydroprocessing
Specific Application
Catalysts
Since 1950, Topsoe has supplied and partnered with the hydrogen industry. Currently, Topsoe’s solutions are used to produce one-third of the world's hydrogen production. Its catalysts, developed through decades of experience, deployment, and feedback, provide routes to cost reduction, increased production, and maximized earnings.
Operators using Topsoe’s catalysts can expect higher activity, longer life, less downtime, and lower energy costs.
Why Are Catalysts Needed?
Output Production
Hydrogen Catalysts
With a comprehensive portfolio of advanced catalysts, you can significantly enhance hydrogen production operations. Topsoe provides highly specialized catalysts meticulously designed for each critical stage of the hydrogen production process. Whether the focus is on green, blue, or gray hydrogen, its proven catalysts and deep technical expertise are precisely what users need to future-proof their operations and strategically position the enterprise for success in a rapidly decarbonizing global economy.
Methanol Catalysts
Methanol producers require robust, field-proven solutions to capitalize on the escalating global demand for methanol. Topsoe stands as a leading provider, delivering not only high-performance catalysts but also cutting-edge technologies and complete plant solutions for methanol synthesis.
The catalysts are meticulously optimized for efficiency, using both conventional and renewable feedstocks, and are engineered to achieve exceptional methanol yields while minimizing undesirable byproducts. Topsoe adopts a holistic perspective on the entire production process, enabling them to precisely design and implement the ideal catalyst solution tailored to the specific requirements of each plant.
The capability to synthesize methanol from a wide range of feedstocks, including natural gas, coal, biomass, municipal waste, renewable energy sources, and even CO2, offers diverse and strategic production pathways for a broad spectrum of industrial applications.
Topsoe offers an extensive and expertly engineered portfolio of catalysts, specifically designed to ensure optimal methanol production performance, irrespective of the chosen feedstock or production route.
Ammonia Catalysts
Topsoe is a pioneer in catalyst innovation, offering some of the world's most active and advanced catalyst solutions. Their technology plays a crucial role in the global ammonia supply chain, contributing to over 50 % of the world's produced ammonia. With a heritage dating back to the early 1950s, Topsoe has dedicated decades to perfecting and supplying catalysts for the ammonia industry, fostering deep-rooted partnerships with operators worldwide, and accumulating an unparalleled wealth of experience and operational feedback.
This extensive knowledge, combined with their unique position as a licensor and service provider of ammonia technology, enables them to craft solutions that are precisely optimized for the specific requirements of ammonia production.
Sulfuric Acid Catalysts
The VK range of sulfuric acid catalysts stands as the industry's most extensive, featuring a diverse array of designs, including standard, dust-protection, cesium-promoted, and LEAP5™ technologies. This comprehensive selection enables them to deliver the exact performance users seek at the most competitive cost, often through bespoke combinations tailored to their precise operational needs.
Beyond performance, this advanced catalyst range is engineered to remove converter performance bottlenecks, minimize pressure drop, reduce energy consumption and downtime, and significantly decrease scrubber costs, saving companies substantial amounts. These benefits, combined with exceptional yields per invested dollar, establish the VK range as the premier choice for ensuring profitable operations without compromising on emission limits.
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Hydroprocessing
Grading Catalysts
Equipping your refinery with Topsoe’s advanced grading catalysts will allow you to confidently navigate the challenges of today's volatile feedstocks. Topsoe provides comprehensive support, enabling users to effectively manage a wide range of impurities and contaminants, as well as evolving regulatory requirements, maintaining a significant competitive advantage.
Grading catalysts are engineered using an extensive global database, which compiles insights from numerous hydroprocessing operations worldwide. This ensures that the users receive top-tier solutions, continuously enhanced and optimized through the integration of cutting-edge scientific research and unparalleled chemical engineering expertise.
Dewaxing Catalysts
Unlock new revenue streams with catalytic dewaxing catalysts, offering adaptable solutions to meet the rising market demand for premium products with precise cold flow specifications.
Specifically, the isomerization-based dewaxing technology meticulously rearranges the positions of hydrocarbon chains while preserving their carbon count. This sophisticated method significantly enhances the production of high-value diesel, achieving the desired cold flow properties and substantially improving its commercial viability.
Naphtha Hydrotreating Catalysts
Refineries are continually challenged to extract greater value from heavier and more complex feedstocks. The advanced naphtha hydrotreating catalysts are specifically engineered to help them meet these demanding operational and economic objectives.
Topsoe's extensive portfolio of naphtha hydrotreating catalysts is designed for broad applicability, effectively processing diverse feedstocks while ensuring straightforward, reliable, stable, and economically viable hydroprocessing.
These catalysts feature precisely optimized activity and selectivity, enabling the efficient removal of sulfur to ultra-low levels. Critically, this is achieved while preserving high octane numbers, thereby facilitating the flexible and profitable production of high-quality gasoline.
Coker Naphtha Hydrotreating Catalysts
The unique composition of coker naphtha imposes extraordinary demands on hydrotreating processes. Specialized catalysts are formulated to effectively manage these inherently difficult-to-process streams, ensuring that the plant consistently delivers gasoline products that meet all required specifications.
With decades of experience and substantial, continuous investments in research and development, Topsoe has established a strong reputation as a market leader and a trusted partner in the refinery catalyst industry.
A testament to this expertise is the innovative SiliconTrap™ series of coker naphtha catalysts, which has been specifically developed to mitigate the challenges posed by the high silica and nitrogen content characteristic of coker naphthas.
FCC Pre-Treatment Catalysts
For refineries, the combination of low sulfur and high octane translates directly into substantial value. Cutting-edge fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) pretreatment catalysts are specifically designed to provide the exceptional sulfur activity, extended longevity, and versatile feedstock flexibility required for success in the competitive fuel market of today.
Topsoe offers a comprehensive suite of FCC pretreatment catalysts, featuring the innovative low-pressure CoMo solutions integrated with BRIM® technology, alongside the robust high-pressure NiMo based catalysts using HyBRIM™ technology.
FCC Post-Treatment Catalysts
Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) post-treatment catalysts play a key role in enhancing the overall profitability and ensuring the financial viability of all types of FCC gasoline post-treatment units through multiple avenues.
The fundamental challenge in treating FCC gasoline lies in effectively reducing sulfur levels while meticulously preserving octane ratings to optimize the gasoline’s inherent value. Topsoe is dedicated to helping refiners achieve international best-practice standards for gasoline production with maximum efficiency, leveraging a catalyst family engineered to elevate their unit performance beyond conventional expectations.
Diesel Hydrotreating Catalysts
The refining sector is currently grappling with a significant dual challenge: meeting increasingly stringent specifications for diesel fuel while simultaneously optimizing diesel production and profitability from lower-quality feedstocks.
Topsoe has maintained a leading position in hydroprocessing catalyst technology for many years. Topsoe is currently the market leader in catalysts, licensed technology, and reactor internals specifically engineered for ULSD production. With Topsoe catalysts employed in 50 % of all ULSD-producing units worldwide, their solutions are demonstrably effective.
Hydrocracking Pretreatment Catalysts
Advanced pretreatment catalysts are specifically engineered to remove nitrogen and sulfur compounds upstream of the hydrocracking catalyst, alongside effectively saturating aromatic compounds.
Topsoe's proprietary catalyst technology enables refineries to process heavier oils containing high nitrogen levels without causing downstream hydrocracking catalyst poisoning. This results in cost savings due to reduced fill costs, stemming from the high hydrodenitrogenation (HDN) and hydrodesulfurization (HDS) activity of the pretreatment catalysts.
Hydrocracking Catalysts
Complete catalyst solutions are available to help achieve maximum flexibility for feedstocks, products, or product quality.
As feed streams become increasingly heavy and product demands fluctuate unpredictably, the success of the business relies heavily on optimized conversion. Partnering with a supplier capable of delivering peak performance from the hydrocracker is a strategic investment that yields significant returns.
Renewables Hydrotreating Catalysts
The processing of renewable feedstocks presents a greater challenge due to the presence of more severe contaminants compared to conventional feedstocks. This heightened complexity underscores the critical importance of selecting the exact right catalyst type to successfully achieve the desired product specifications.
The efficiency of the renewable fuels process is directly tied to the optimal performance of the catalysts. With an extensive and continuously expanding portfolio of catalysts, Topsoe possesses the capability to precisely customize catalyst selection to align with the unique demands and operational needs of the business.
Resid Catalysts
The shifting energy landscape, characterized by a declining market for residual oil and growing demand for light transportation fuels, provides refineries with a strategic advantage in converting residual oil into valuable gasoline and diesel products.
Topsoe offers a selection of fixed-bed resid hydrotreating catalysts engineered to deliver extended cycle lengths and superior protection for downstream catalysts. Its comprehensive approach ensures more cost-effective compliance with both stringent product specifications and evolving environmental standards.
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Specific Application
Catalysts for Purification and Desulfurization
The specialized portfolio of purification and desulfurization catalysts is designed to protect critical downstream catalysts and equipment, while simultaneously enabling the plant to meet rigorous product specifications and comply with environmental legislation.
At Topsoe, the products are imbued with the extensive knowledge gained from their intensive R&D efforts and the successful deployment of thousands of purification and desulfurization catalyst charges worldwide. The advanced catalyst portfolio is instrumental in achieving maximum feedstock and stream purity, delivering significant operational and business benefits.
Prereforming Catalysts
A prereformer represents a crucial asset for maximizing production output and enhancing energy efficiency. The specialized catalysts are designed to help users unlock the full potential of the prereformer by providing superior activity, coupled with excellent feedstock and operational flexibility.
Topsoe is recognized as a global pioneer in catalyst innovation, and prereformer catalysts are a testament to this leadership. With extensive experience spanning decades and a proven track record of success, Topsoe delivers solutions that streamline operations, reduce costs, and enhance reliability. When users select Topsoe, they gain more than just a catalyst; they also acquire a partner dedicated to their success.
Tubular Reforming Catalysts
Tubular reforming is a foundational process in modern chemical and energy industries, providing a reliable method for hydrogen and syngas production. Topsoe offers a comprehensive range of high-performance catalysts specifically engineered for tubular reforming applications.
As global leaders in catalyst innovation, Topsoe's tubular reformer catalysts uphold this reputation. Catalysts are meticulously designed for optimal efficiency, robust durability, and long-term sustainability. Leveraging decades of experience and a proven track record, Topsoe provides solutions that refine operations, minimize costs, and bolster overall reliability.
Autothermal Reforming Catalysts
Optimizing the selection of autothermal reforming catalysts is a critical factor in achieving substantial reductions in plant maintenance expenditures, catalyst replacement frequencies, and the overall operational costs associated with the autothermal reforming unit.
Topsoe stands as a global frontrunner in catalyst innovation, a leadership position clearly reflected in its advanced autothermal reforming catalysts. These catalysts are meticulously engineered to deliver peak efficiency, ensuring consistent operational stability and an extended service life, even under the most rigorous industrial conditions. Partnering with Topsoe means acquiring not just a superior catalyst, but also a dedicated ally invested in the operational success of each project.
High Temperature Shift Catalysts
High-temperature shift catalysis solutions are designed to eliminate operational uncertainties and complexities. Topsoe provides a comprehensive range of catalyst options, from low-chromium to entirely chromium-free formulations, all demonstrating proven performance essential for the profitable production of ammonia or hydrogen.
The choice between chromium-containing and chromium-free catalysts is often dictated by evolving local environmental regulations. However, the advantages of operating at ultra-low steam-to-carbon ratios with HTS catalysts remain accessible.
Medium Temperature Shift Catalysts
Whether users produce hydrogen or ammonia, the medium-temperature shift (MTS) catalysts deliver the high activity and long-lasting performance users need to keep production rates high and operating costs low.
MTS catalysts offer industry-leading activity due to their finely dispersed copper oxide content, which provides a large and stable copper surface area. All MTS catalysts are chromium-free for safe handling, easier installation, and simplified start-up.
Low Temperature Shift Catalysts
Ammonia and hydrogen plants in today's market require increased CO conversion at a reduced cost. Low temperature shift (LTS) catalysts have demonstrated superior conversion and efficiency for decades.
The strategic choice of an LTS catalyst can unlock substantial profit enhancements and generate additional revenue. Profitable ammonia and hydrogen manufacturing necessitates high CO conversion alongside the lowest possible operating expenditures. The LTS catalysts are engineered to boost the ammonia output and significantly lower operating costs through their enhanced efficiency and extended catalyst longevity.
Methanation Catalysts
Whether the operations involve an ammonia, hydrogen, or substitute natural gas (SNG) plant, dependable, long-lasting methanation catalysts are critical to protect production integrity and optimize overall plant performance.
Topsoe has been at the forefront of catalyst innovation for many decades, with a dedicated focus on advancing methanation processes. A significant number of the world's leading energy and chemical corporations rely on Topsoe catalysts for their essential methanation applications. The catalysts are meticulously engineered to withstand high temperatures and challenging operating conditions, thereby ensuring extended lifespans and consistent, reliable performance.
Ammonia Synthesis Catalysts
Achieve elevated production outputs, realize substantial energy savings, minimize operational interruptions, and benefit from exceptional catalyst longevity. Advanced catalysts for ammonia synthesis are specifically engineered to ensure the prosperity of the industrial plant.
There is a compelling reason why the catalysts are instrumental in producing over half of the world's ammonia. KM1 and KM 111 ammonia synthesis catalysts consistently surpass competitor offerings, distinguished by their unmatched high and stable activity, alongside outstanding resistance to poisons.
SO2 Oxidation Catalysts
The specialized line of SO2 oxidation catalysts, known as the VK™ series, is precisely formulated for applications in sulfuric acid production, flue gas desulfurization, and related industrial processes.
These SO2 oxidation catalysts are widely recognized for their superior performance, enduring durability, and remarkable adaptability to a broad spectrum of operating conditions. Topsoe is always prepared to assist in customizing a catalyst solution for the specific operations, taking into account the process requirements, plant configuration, and relevant environmental regulations.
Methanol Synthesis Catalysts
Topsoe's methanol synthesis catalysts are engineered to deliver exceptional performance, characterized by high activity, high selectivity, high strength, and high flexibility. This robust combination underpins their documented industry-leading performance and stability, directly contributing to attractive profit gains for the plant over the catalyst’s entire operational lifetime.
Topsoe's portfolio of methanol synthesis catalysts is the product of decades of intensive research and continuous innovation, meticulously aimed at optimizing both catalyst efficiency and durability. This deep-rooted expertise is precisely why they are trusted by leading methanol producers worldwide, enjoying a well-deserved reputation for reliability and quality, even when faced with diverse feedstocks.
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