ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC has announced commercialization of its new Olgone technology - a catalyst-driven technology that provides aromatics plant operators with an alternative to the clay treaters currently used to reduce olefin content. Olgone is a technology that offers more effective and environmentally sound removal of olefins from aromatics streams and is more effective than clay treaters in removing olefinic materials that can interfere with downstream equipment, adsorbents, sieves and catalysts. Transition to this technology simple and trouble-free as it is easily retrofitted into existing clay treaters and operates at the same process conditions, but its processing capacity is 4 to 6 times that of clay due to a proprietary catalyst system specifically engineered for low-temperature alkylation reactions. Olgone provides a way to debottleneck without large capital investment of adding new clay treater vessels. Environmental performance gets improved as it is regenerable, unlike the clay it replaces.
Few of the advantages offered by this technology are benefits in operating and capital costs, solid waste reduction, downstream protection, and operations improvement. Exxonmobil has been using the process in its aromatics plants for several years.
09-Oct-06 
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