December 2019
IMO 2020
Refinery residue and bitumen upgrading: Gasification
Gasifiers take the bottom of the crude barrel and move the residue into the C1 value chain. Refiners have had a variable record of running gasifiers for a time and then shutting them down. Reasons for this include inexperience with gasifier operations, lack of knowledge on how to extract profits from the C1 value chain and market difficulties in catering to clients operating in different business environments.
The Authors
Armen Abazajian is a petrochemicals, chemicals and fuels technology, market and economics expert with a strong technology background. He has more than 30 yr of experience in consulting, engineering, technology and project development and technology startups. His technical expertise is in gasification, gas reforming, hydroformylation, GTL, CTL, dehydrogenation and olefin oligomers, including alpha-olefins, olefin derivatives, oleochemicals and alternative fuels. He has been granted 12 patents and has published numerous articles in international publications.
Andrew Sloley is an operations, technology, competitive intelligence and economics expert with a strong technology background. He has more than 35 yr of experience in consulting, engineering and project execution. Mr. Sloley’s work has included distillation theory and practice, refining technology and site-wide planning for large petrochemical-refining complexes. He has published extensively, including more than 300 articles and columns. Among other subjects, he teaches seminars on refining unit operations.
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