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CAMOL ™ Catalytic Coatings for Steam Cracker Furnace Tubes
CAMOL™ Catalytic Coatings for Steam Cracker Furnace Tubes
These advanced catalytic coatings are applied on the internal surface of steam cracker furnace tubes and fittings used to manufacture radiant furnace coils, enabling the Catalytically-Assisted Manufacture of OLefins (CAMOL™) from petrochemical feedstocks. The coatings are designed to improve operational profitability of petrochemical furnaces by reducing carbon formation, thus increasing on-line production time, and reducing energy requirements and CO2 emissions.
There are two CAMOL™ coatings to meet the needs of different crackers, feedstocks, and operating conditions. Both the Low-Catalytic Gasifier (LCG) and High-Catalytic Gasifier (HCG) coatings are inert to filamentous (catalytic) coke-make and suppress the formation of amorphous (gas-phase) coke. The LCG coating is typically used in environments with lower coking rates, such as conventional ethane-propane cracking. The HCG coating targets operating environments with higher amorphous coke-make found with cracking heavier feedstocks such as naphtha. Both the LCG and HCG are commercially available.
Without CAMOL™
Filamentous and amorphous coke collects on the inside of the tube, causing an increase in the tube pressure drop and impacting feed rates. The coke build-up acts as a thermal insulator to reduce the efficiency of heat transfer to the feed stream.
With CAMOL™
CAMOL™ covers the interior walls of furnace tubes and fittings to impede filamentous coke formation. As amorphous coke develops and comes into contact with CAMOL™, it gasifies into CO and CO2. The result is a low coke environment.
Typical coke behavior in an untreated furnace tube during steam cracking
Typical coke behavior in a CAMOL™ treated furnace tube during steam cracking
delivers improved operational profitability for your steam cracker furnace.
CAMOL™
CAMOL™ is inert to filamentous coke and gasifies amorphous coke
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) Images of CAMOL™ LCG Coating
Benefits of CAMOL™ Technology
Top down view of oxide layer
1. As a barrier - CAMOL™ protects the surface of the tubes by generating an inertbarrier between the Fe/Ni in the base steel and the hydrocarbon feed. The barrier is an oxide layer which is <10 microns in thickness, and can be repeatedly regenerated through normal operation.
2. As a catalyst - CAMOL™ provides a kinetic solution to gasify coke precursors to COand/or CO2, thus offering a two-pronged approach to address both catalytic and pyrolytic (amorphous) coke.
Metallographic cross-section of the CAMOL™ LCG coating ~1,000 microns thick
As a metallic coating, CAMOL™ is deposited on the inner surface of a steam cracker's radiant tubes, and serves two main purposes:
With its unique ability as both a barrier and a catalyst, CAMOL™ enables improved operational efficiency. This is realized by increasing on-line production time as well as significantly reducing energy requirements and CO2 emissions.
These images show the crystal (oxide) layer and the CAMOL™ layer structure / thickness of an actual coating cross-section.
About Us
BASF Qtech Inc., with its co-shareholders BASF Canada Inc. and Quantiam Technologies Inc., is a leader in catalytic coating technologies. BASF Qtech offers advanced catalytic coatings that are applied on the internal surfaces of steam cracker furnace coils used in the global petrochemical industry. These heat-resistant CAMOL™ coatings improve operational profitability of steam crackers by reducing carbon formation and increasing on-line production time, resulting in a reduction of energy requirements and CO2 emissions. With BASF Qtech, BASF and Quantiam advance the new type of CAMOL™ products and strengthen the establishment in the market with joint forces. Manufacturing, R&D and technical services for the business entity are provided by the Quantiam team in Edmonton, while BASF accounts for the technical and engineering expertise in its Petrochemical operations as well as global marketing and sales by its Catalysts division.
About BASF’s Catalysts Division
BASF’s Catalysts division is the world’s leading supplier of environmental and process catalysts. The group offers exceptional expertise in the development of technologies that protect the air we breathe, produce the fuels that power our world and ensure efficient production of a wide variety of chemicals, plastics and other products, including advanced battery materials. By leveraging our industry-leading R&D platforms, passion for innovation and deep knowledge of precious and base metals, BASF’s Catalysts division develops unique, proprietary solutions that drive customer success. BASF - We create chemistry
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