Help improve margins with a low-cost vacuum distillation unit revamp
The performance of a vacuum distillation unit (VDU) can have a major bearing on a refinery’s margins:
- It is the last opportunity to remove valuable distillates from crude and to minimise refinery fuel oil make
- It improves the feed quality for the downstream conversion units (hydrocracking or fluidised catalytic cracking units) and is a major determinant of their cycle lengths
Consequently, a VDU revamp offers refiners a major margin-improvement opportunity. Revamping these units using Shell’s deep-flash, high-vacuum technology can often be a low-cost way to unlock downstream assets. Read the VDU revamp scenario to find out how this refinery revamp technology can:
- Increase vacuum gas oil yield
- Enhance unit throughput and improve unit reliability
- Ensure that contaminant levels remain within the conversion units’ acceptability limits
Download the guide to low-capex vacuum distillation revamps
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