Excellent pressure drop prevention enhances reactor performance
Processing a variety of feedstocks presents unique challenges for today's refiners. Maintaining desired unit cycle length is critical. As a result, the catalyst must be protected from contaminants to ensure catalyst productivity.
Saint-Gobain NorPro's MacroTrap® guard bed media technology removes scale and organic iron. Use of this media leads to improved pressure drop stability when processing iron contaminant feeds.
MacroTrap XPore 80 media are highly macroporous ceramic media. The media protect the catalyst bed from premature fouling due to unwanted particulates accumulating on the catalyst, thus reducing its activity. Reduced catalyst activity could lead to an undesirable return on investment on the main catalyst bed. The "XPore 80" naming indicates that macropores account for ~80% of total pore volume. This is significant as it permits filtering an extended range of particulate contaminant sizes.
Macropores trap larger particulate matter
Micropores trap smaller particulates
Tortuous path improves trapping performance of contaminants
Retains high strength and low attrition
Excellent pressure drop prevention enhances reactor performance
Processing a variety of feedstocks presents unique challenges for today's refiners. Maintaining desired unit cycle length is critical. As a result, the catalyst must be protected from contaminants to ensure catalyst productivity.
Saint-Gobain NorPro's MacroTrap® guard bed media technology removes scale and organic iron. Use of this media leads to improved pressure drop stability when processing iron contaminant feeds.
MacroTrap XPore 80 media are highly macroporous ceramic media. The media protect the catalyst bed from premature fouling due to unwanted particulates accumulating on the catalyst, thus reducing its activity. Reduced catalyst activity could lead to an undesirable return on investment on the main catalyst bed. The "XPore 80" naming indicates that macropores account for ~80% of total pore volume. This is significant as it permits filtering an extended range of particulate contaminant sizes.
- Macropores trap larger particulate matter
- Micropores trap smaller particulates
- Tortuous path improves trapping performance of contaminants
- Retains high strength and low attrition
