Sulzer GTC showcases process technologies ahead of IRPC Americas ONLINE
A pre-conference Innovation Showcase on the afternoon of September 21 educated attendees on a number of innovative technologies and processes licensed by Sulzer GTC Technology.High-purity aromatics extraction. The workshop opened with a session on GT-BTX Aromatics Recovery and GT-BTX PluS technologies, introduced by Joseph (Joe) Gentry, Senior Vice President of Licensing and Engineering, and presented by Charlie Chou, Licensing Director of Refining, Aromatics and Derivatives.GT-BTX takes pygas, reformate and coke oven light oil streams to efficiently extract aromatics via extractive distillation (ED) in a two-column system (see Fig. 1). The use of the Techtiv 500 solvent in the GT-BTX process makes it among the highest-efficiency ED process.....