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Pilot Plants and Bench Scale units
- Catalyst Preparation unit.
- Catalytic Steam Cracking unit.
- Hydrocracking unit.
- Reactivity test units: fixed bed and moving bed reactor units.
- Visbreaking unit.
Catalyst Characterization
- FTIR: acid sites discrimination.
- CHEMBET-3000: surface area, TPD, TPR, TPO and titration.
- Fetasizer Nano series: enables measurements of particles from 0.6 nm to 6 μm (sample dependent).
- TRISTAR: Surface area, Pore volume, pore size distribution.
Feedstock / product handling and characterization
- Gas Chromatograph HP-6890 coupled with FID: gas analysis.
- GC/MS.
- HPLC (High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph)
- Karl-Fisher: Water content,
- Iatroscan MK-6: SARA analysis (Saturates, Aromatics, Resins and Asphaltenes).
- Milling machines and sieves for solid handling.
- Omnistar Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer: gas analysis.
- Refractory Index.
- Simdist.
- Sulfur and Nitrogen analyzer.
- Stability test analysis for petroleum crude oils and fuel oils.
- TGA: Thermal Gravimetric analysis of samples.
- UV-Visible: Adsorption studies and molecular characterization.
- FTIR: hydrocarbon characterization.
- Picnometry: API GRAVITY.
- Metler Toledo Tritator: TAN, TBN, Bromine number.
- MCR.
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