Aromatics

With strong worldwide petrochemical growth, Honeywell UOP aromatic and aromatic derivative catalysts offer the higher activity, higher stability and longer life that help you keep pace with demand while improving your economics. Our advanced solutions can support your new, large-scale integrated projects or provide improved efficiency and production rates for your revamp.

Featured Aromatics Catalysts:

• Aromatics Complex
  Achieve continuous operating cycles and improve the economics of your aromatics complex with high stability catalysts
• Ethylbenzene & Styrene
  Get better product quality, improved heat integration, a lower investment cost and a far more rugged and reliable catalyst system
• Cumene & Phenol
  Avoid catalyst disposal problems with catalyst than can be regenerated repeatedly

Learn more about our Aromatics Catalyst portfolio:

Aromatics Complex
UOP’s aromatics catalysts operate at higher conversions with less recycled hydrogen and for much longer cycles prior to regeneration. Higher conversion results in smaller recycle streams. And with less recycled hydrogen you realize lower overall energy costs. Our catalysts can achieve multi-year, continuous operating cycles, maximizing production of benzene, toluene and xylenes (BTX) and substantially improving the economics of the aromatics complex.

UOP’s newest catalyst, UOP I-550 catalyst system, features improved xylene retention with high px/x selectivity. It is often used to debottleneck an existing aromatics complex, offers excellent stability and operates at high space velocity, requiring less catalyst.

UOP Aromatics Complex catalysts include:

• I-550
• I-500
• I-400
• TA-20HP
• TA-30
• TA-32
• D-1000
• PXP-300
• PXP-500
• ADS-23
• ADS-37
• ADS-47

Ethylbenzene & Styrene
The UOP EBOne process is a liquid-phase alkylation process that employs our proprietary EB zeolite catalysts. The catalysts can be regenerated repeatedly, avoiding the significant catalyst disposal problems associated with older aluminum chloride catalyst systems. Compared to other EB synthesis technologies, the EBOne process offers better product quality, better heat integration, a lower investment cost, and a far more rugged and reliable catalyst system.

The Lummus/UOP Classic SM process is a deep-vacuum, adiabatic EB dehydrogenation technology that utilizes uses state-of-the-art dehydrogenation catalysts developed and manufactured by Clariant Oxidation in the process is accomplished using UOP’s OC series of highly selective catalysts.

UOP’s Ethylbenze & Styrene catalysts include:

• EBZ-100
• EBZ-500
• EBZ-800TL
• NiGuard-1
• OC-5

Cumene & Phenol
For more than 50 years, the chemical industry had used solid phosphoric acid (SPA) or aluminum chloride catalysts to synthesize cumene from benzene and propylene. This approach was fundamentally changed by the introduction of UOP’s revolutionary Q-Max process and zeolite catalysts.

The UOP Q-Max process represents the latest generation of cumene technology based on a highly selective and stable zeolite catalyst developed by UOP researchers. The process offers excellent cumene product quality at over 99.7 wt-% yield. The catalyst used in the Q-Max process can be regenerated repeatedly, avoiding the catalyst disposal problems associated with older SPA and aluminum chloride catalyst systems. Compared to other cumene synthesis technologies, the Q-Max process offers better product quality, better heat integration, lower investment cost, and a far more rugged and reliable catalyst system.

UOP’s cumene & phenol catalysts include:

• QZ-2000
• QZ-2100
• QZ-2500H
• NiGuard-1

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