UNICAT’s Polycat II Advanced oligomerization catalyst is now in operation in over 5 catalytic polymerization units worldwide. The longest service to date is over 12 months and we are pleased to share with you some recent customer sanctioned data highlighting the effectiveness of Polycat II Advanced and the improved profitability it gives to all our customers. The ability to retard pressure drop increase facilitates significantly longer catalyst cycles that lead to fewer annual catalyst changes. A refinery in North America was very happy to share the improvements in annual savings by switching to UNICAT’s Polycat II Advanced catalyst.
By reducing the number of catalysts reloads per year, our customer realized several benefits: Cost Savings, Improved environmental Impact, and Improved efficiency.
Assuming an average maintenance cost @ USD 80k/reload, and disposal cost @ USD 15k/load, our North American customer is saving at least USD 570,000 per year on maintenance and disposal alone. Additional catalyst cost savings realized USD ~ 2.5 MM/year results in the total savings of USD 2.97M/year.
The comparative performance analysis is shared below.
Please reach out to our regional technical sales teams to see how UNICAT can improve your profitability with Polycat II Advanced and explain the other new Catalyst Innovations we have recently released as well as our pipeline of new innovations coming to market in 2025.
