Petrochemical & Refining

Reliable performance in petrochemical and refining operations depends on more than major process units alone. Flow distribution, catalyst bed stability, separation efficiency, pressure drop, fouling resistance, and maintenance intervals are all shaped by the quality of the internals and supporting equipment inside the system. Our solutions for Petrochemical & Refining are designed to improve process consistency, extend run length, and support both new installations and revamp projects across demanding operating environments.

We provide a solution-focused portfolio centered on Reactor Internals, Tower Internals, and Wiped Film Evaporators for services where conventional equipment may struggle with high viscosity, heat sensitivity, or fouling tendencies. These solutions are applied across refining, hydrotreating, hydrocracking, reforming, gas treatment, distillation, absorption, stripping, and purification duties.

Reactor Internals for Process Stability and Catalyst Performance

Inside a reactor, effective internals are essential for controlling how fluids enter, distribute, react, and exit. Poor distribution can lead to channeling, hot spots, uneven catalyst utilization, rising pressure drop, and shorter operating cycles. Our reactor internals solutions are engineered to improve flow uniformity, maintain structural integrity under severe conditions, and help protect overall reactor performance.

Key solutions include Feed Diffusers, Liquid Distributor Trays, Support Grids, Quench Injection and Mixing Systems, Outlet Collectors, and radial-flow components such as Center Pipes, Inner Screens, Scallops, and Outer Baskets. Together, these components help control inlet momentum, improve liquid and gas distribution, support catalyst beds, manage inter-bed quenching, and maintain reliable collection at the outlet.

These systems are suitable for axial and radial flow reactors used in hydrotreating, hydrocracking, hydrogenation, sulfur removal, gas purification, reforming, CCR units, ammonia converters, and other high-pressure, high-temperature applications where long-term reliability is critical.

Tower Internals for Higher Separation Efficiency

Columns remain at the heart of many refining and petrochemical processes, including distillation, rectification, absorption, stripping, washing, and vapor-liquid separation. The efficiency of these operations depends heavily on internal design. Well-engineered tower internals can increase throughput, improve product purity, reduce pressure drop, and lower energy demand while maintaining stable performance over time.

Our tower internals offering includes Tray Internals, Packing Internals, Liquid Distributors, Gas Distributors, Redistributors, demisters, support systems, and collection components. Each solution is selected or engineered according to process requirements such as capacity, pressure drop limits, fluid properties, corrosion environment, and separation targets.

Whether the goal is improving vapor-liquid contact, reducing maldistribution, minimizing wall flow, or extending maintenance intervals, tower internals play a direct role in achieving better operating economics. They are especially valuable in revamp and debottlenecking projects where performance gains are needed without major vessel replacement.

Wiped Film Evaporation for Difficult Streams

For high-viscosity, heat-sensitive, or fouling-prone streams, conventional evaporation or separation systems may not deliver stable performance. In these cases, Wiped Film Evaporators provide an effective complementary solution within petrochemical and refining operations.

By continuously forming a thin film under high vacuum, wiped film evaporation enables rapid heat transfer, short residence time, and efficient separation with reduced thermal degradation. This makes it well suited for heavy oil and residual oil processing, base oil refining, waste oil regeneration, devolatilization, solvent recovery, and purification of sensitive petrochemical products.

This solution is particularly valuable where operators need to reduce viscosity, recover valuable fractions, improve product quality, or manage streams that are prone to scaling or coking under conventional conditions.

Built for New Projects and Revamps

Our Petrochemical & Refining solutions are developed with practical engineering requirements in mind, including mechanical strength, thermal expansion, pressure containment, corrosion resistance, installation constraints, and turnaround schedules. The result is a flexible approach that supports grassroots projects as well as retrofits, shutdown work, and capacity improvements in existing units.

By combining high-performance internals and specialized separation equipment into the right process application, we help plants achieve more uniform flow behavior, better reaction and separation performance, longer operating cycles, and lower total operating cost.

Explore our related solutions: Reactor Internals, Tower Internals, Feed Diffusers, Support Grids, Liquid Distributors, and Wiped Film Evaporators.