More capacity. Better products. Higher margins.
Refinery process optimization plus commercially proven technologies, usually built into columns you already own.
Where Can Refinery Economics Improve?
Our refinery process solutions start by finding where the money is hiding in an existing unit, then apply packages already commissioned in operating refineries, reusing installed columns rather than adding new ones.
Refinery Process Optimization
Raise octane and throughput using existing assets.
Find the bottleneck, quantify the opportunity, improve margins.
Capacity, margins, energy and integration, assessed across your distillation sequence. We find the constraint, then size what removing it is worth.
- Capacity: over 40% more from a DWC Prime revamp than from high-capacity internals alone
- Margins: isolating higher-value streams such as isopentane and food grade hexane
- Energy: heat-pump-assisted and multi-effect distillation
20–50% CAPEX and OPEX saved across distillation sequences
Food & Polymer Grade Hexane
Turn an isomerization unit into a specialty-products business.
Turn a three-cut deisohexanizer into a four-product separation, pulling saleable hexane grades out of an isomerization unit that was only making octane.
- Up to 25% more octane barrels, 8–15% more feed processed
- Up to 50% lower energy than alternative C6 routes
- No new columns, no additional plot space
2–12 months typical payback on a revamp
Hydrotreating Solutions
Add capacity and remove contaminants without expanding the hydrotreater.
New hydrotreating units, revamps and catalyst optimization. For selected services, DWC Prime™ pre-treatment removes contaminants such as CS2 ahead of the hydrotreater and avoids a costly expansion.
- More capacity and spare capacity from existing units
- On-spec petrochemical naphtha with reduced hydrotreater load
- 90% iC5 premium gasoline as a second revenue stream
- 20–50% CAPEX and OPEX reduction
Below 1 ppm CS2 without a hydrotreater expansion
Ben Prime — Benzene Saturation
Meet benzene specifications without major refinery investment.
When geography or economics rule out processing the benzene-rich stream where it is produced, Ben Prime hydrogenates it instead — in a compact liquid-phase reactor.
- Meets gasoline benzene limits without a new C5-C6 isomerization unit
- Over 30% more throughput from a revamped reformate splitter
- Selective catalyst converts only benzene, minimizing octane loss
99.9% benzene saturation achievable
Octane Booster — Light Naphtha Isomerization
Isomerate octane is set by separation, not by the reactor. A DWC Prime retrofit inside the existing DIH shell gives that one column the extra duty.
- 2 to 6 RON gained, reaching as high as RON 93
- Four cuts from one existing DIH column, over 20% more unit capacity
- No new column, no new foundations or plot space
2–12 months typical simple payback
How we deliver refinery process solutions
The technology underneath
Most of these solutions are built on our licensed dividing wall column technology and proprietary internals.
The engineering around it
Feasibility study through to start-up support, delivered by the same team that designed the process.
Why Refiners Choose DWC Innovations
Which opportunity exists in your refinery?
More throughput, higher octane, fewer contaminants, more valuable products or lower energy use: send us the configuration and operating data, and we’ll tell you which route is worth studying.