The Catalyst Review Newsletter

According to its website (http://www.catalystgrp.com/catalystreview.html) …

“The Catalyst Review is a monthly newsletter specially geared for a targeted, busy audience...people who need to stay on top of developments that can affect their business, but don't have a lot of time to do that.

“The Catalyst Review is designed to provide readers with a global overview of events impacting the $10 billion catalyst industry, through selected abstracts, company interviews, and original articles. There is also a special "Rumors" column that gives a view of what's going on behind the scenes too. Reader questions and comments are welcomed, to provide an additional value to subscribers. This reinforces the purpose of The Catalyst Review, which is to provide a timely line on key news and research, in an easy-to-digest format.”

We do not subscribe, but found a sample letter online that looked good (see below), so you might want to take a look.

“The Catalyst Review Newsletter, Special Feature
“Catalysts for Hydroprocessing Heavy Oil
“The development and use of technologies for hydroprocessing of heavy oils have been receiving attention because of the decrease in the amount of light sweet crude oil available for refineries. The imbalance created by the increasing demand for distillate products can only be solved by increasing the upgrading of heavy and residual oils. This favors investment in the development of catalysts for heavy oil conversion and upgrading.

“Of the available possibilities for treatment of heavy oil, hydrogen addition processes lead not only to overall higher liquid yields but also high hydrogen consumption. These processes, which provide the feedstock for the subsequent fluid catalytic cracking, require the use of well designed catalysts capable of dealing with the high concentrations of metals and asphaltene constituents in the feedstock. Moreover, the multifunctional catalysts used for hydrocracking processes (Figure 1) become poisoned by coke deposition and the heavy metals present in the feed create a hazardous waste, which has to be disposed properly. A high catalyst demetallization function is necessary and the concentration of nitrogen compounds must be taken to a minimum to avoid poisoning of the catalyst acid sites in subsequent processes."

View the full text of the May, 2008 edition of the Catalyst Review Newsletter at ...
http://www.catalystgrp.com/pdffiles/0508CatalystReview.pdf

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