hte and BP Chemicals announce a successful research collaboration in the field of gas-to-products

02-Feb-2009 - United Kingdom

hte and BP Chemicals Limited celebrate the fourth consecutive year of a successful working relationship. Over the past four years hte has helped BP Chemicals to develop an entirely new gas-to-products process. By using hte’s proprietary high throughput technology, BP has been able to take its ideas from the initial conception phase right through to process development in a considerably short space of time.

The relationship began in 2004, with hte providing BP Chemicals with Stage I catalyst screening technology for gas-to-products testing. This has allowed screening of a diverse range of materials classes under varying conditions in the quest to discover the most promising leads, whilst greatly accelerating the process.

The subsequent steps, using hte’s Stage II testing technology, then allowed for the refinement of catalyst compositions and recipes thus optimising catalyst conditions. Several hundred catalysts were tested using hte custommade parallel reactor technology. BP Chemicals were able to take full advantage of hte’s expert catalyst and technology knowledge and experience to carry out work that would typically have taken more than 50 reactor years.

For the final stage hte has designed and constructed a dedicated Stage III unit, which has concentrated on the process development. This has given BP a detailed kinetic data framework for future plant design. The process optimisation phase is currently still on-going at hte and BP.

hte and BP Chemicals scientific and technical personnel have worked in very close collaboration throughout the projects. “The use of such integrated teamwork has been fundamental to the project’s success, with the continuity of the team allowing for close discussions over programme definition and design stages”, says Mark Roberts, Team Leader at BP Chemicals. The in-depth knowledge shared among the teams and their involvement throughout the entire programme has helped to move into future project phases in shorter periods of time.

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