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SAF or e-SAF but One Path to a More Sustainable Air Transportation

Traditional fuels used in aviation, such as kerosene, are responsible of 3% of Global GHG emissions. With the long-term climate goal of net-zero emissions by 2025, the ambition is to reduce aviation ...
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Renewable Fuels & Bio-based Chemicals
Written by Jeanne Tourdjman • 12/02/2024

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Towards Plastics Circularity

Considering the amounts of worldwide plastics consumed, their recycling represents a significant lever to limit the impact on environment. The ...

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Process Technologies
Written by Jeanne Tourdjman18 Oct 2022
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Shaping the Future of Refining with Advanced Technologies

The refining industry has a unique expertise, which is to process and convert multiple feedstocks made of highly complex molecules. Refining should ...

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Renewable Fuels & Bio-based ChemicalsCarbon Capture & StorageOil RefiningPetrochemicals
Written by Jean Sentenac20 Jan 2022
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Crude-to-Chemicals (CTC): a straight-forward route for a strategic turn

In the background of fuels demand shifting towards petrochemicals growth, ...

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Written by Axens17 Feb 2021

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What Are the Main Sectors Emitting CO2?

All sources agree with the urgent need for action to mitigate climate change and, consequently, the top priority of reducing GreenHouse Gas (GHG) ...

CO2 Gas Drying + 2
CO2 captureCarbon Capture & Storage
Written by Axens16 Mar 2022
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Carbon Capture and Storage, a Necessary Tool to Fight Climate Change

In December 2015, the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) adopted the Paris ...

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CO2 captureCarbon Capture & Storage
Written by Axens09 Mar 2022
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Happy New Year 2022 ✨

Wishing a Happy New Year to our clients and partners around the world. 2022 has arrived, and with it new hopes for a brighter future. Let’s energize ...

Written by Axens16 Dec 2021
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Maximizing the Production and the Transformation of Aromatics

A Crude-to-Chemicals (CTC) conversion block maximizes Heavy Naphtha (HN) production for the aromatics block (figure below) of a petrochemical complex.

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High-conversion HydrocrackingCatalytic CrackingEtherificationOlefins Selective HydrogenationResidue Hydroconversion & HydroprocessingSolvent Deasphalting (SDA)Thermal ProcessTotal HydrogenationProcess TechnologiesOil RefiningPetrochemicals
Written by Axens25 Nov 2021
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Targeting the Highly Coveted Olefins

In order to optimize the Olefins Block in Crude-to-Chemicals Complexes, two main routes to produce olefins are generally considered:

C4 Fractionation + 11
High-conversion HydrocrackingCatalytic CrackingEtherificationOlefins Selective HydrogenationResidue Hydroconversion & HydroprocessingSolvent Deasphalting (SDA)Thermal ProcessTotal HydrogenationProcess TechnologiesOil RefiningPetrochemicals
Written by Axens16 Nov 2021
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Two Conversion Routes to Maximize the Economic Returns of a Crude-to-Chemicals Project

The conversion block plays a decisive role in the economic returns of the ...

C4 Fractionation + 10
High-conversion HydrocrackingCatalytic CrackingEtherificationOlefins Selective HydrogenationSolvent Deasphalting (SDA)Thermal ProcessTotal HydrogenationProcess TechnologiesOil RefiningPetrochemicals
Written by Axens02 Nov 2021
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