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title: Merichem Liquid Hydrocarbon-Treating Case Study | Shell Catalysts & Technologies
description: Read the Merichem Liquid Hydrocarbon-Treating Case Study and learn to achieve non-dispersive-phase contact without the problems in conventional mixing devices.
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CASE STUDY

# Cost-effectively remove contaminants from hydrocarbon stream.

### ![Merichem Liquid hydrocarbon-treating Technologies](https://catalysts.shell.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Merichem%20Liquid%20hydrocarbon-treating%20Technologies.png?width=150&name=Merichem%20Liquid%20hydrocarbon-treating%20Technologies.png)Challenges with Hydrocarbon Stream Removal

- Growing development of sour natural gas resources;
- Unfavorable conditions and compositions for traditional desulphurisation;
- Increasing environmental regulations on sulphur emissions (World Bank)

### Read the Merichem Liquid Hydrocarbon-Treating Case Study

Achieve non-dispersive-phase contact without the problems in conventional mixing devices, contributing to:

- Reduced capital and operating expenditures;
- Higher performance impurity removal;
- Smaller unit footprint.

#### Achieve non-dispersive-phase contact without the problems in conventional mixing devices.

#### **Read the Case Study:**

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