Badger Congratulates Calumet on Start-Up of World’s First BenzOUT™ Process Unit
March 15 2012 - 9:18AM
Business Wire
Badger Licensing LLC congratulates Calumet Specialty Products
Partners L.P. on the successful completion and start-up of the
world’s first BenzOUT™ process unit for gasoline benzene reduction
at Calumet’s refinery in Superior, WI. The unit converts benzene
contained in the refinery's gasoline blend-stock into high octane
alkyl-aromatics by reacting benzene with refinery grade
propylene.
The BenzOUT process, developed by ExxonMobil Research and
Engineering Company and licensed through Badger, avoids the octane
loss and hydrogen consumption associated with other benzene
reduction strategies such as benzene saturation and removal of
benzene precursors from reformer feed. The BenzOUT process license
was executed in July 2010, and the project was completed by Calumet
in December 2011.
This innovative technology helps Calumet to meet EPA-mandated
Mobile Source Air Toxics (MSAT2) benzene regulations while
generating a positive octane gain in the gasoline pool. Calumet’s
BenzOUT process unit can process 5,500 barrels per day of feedstock
and is designed to help achieve 0.62 volume % of benzene in the
gasoline pool, meeting the most stringent requirement under the
MSAT2 regulation.
Badger Licensing LLC, headquartered in Cambridge, MA, is a
venture of affiliates of The Shaw Group (NYSE: SHAW) and ExxonMobil
Chemical Company. Badger is principally engaged in marketing,
licensing, and developing technologies for ethylbenzene, styrene
monomer, cumene, and bisphenol A. The venture also supplies basic
engineering packages for the licensed processes through Shaw.
Catalyst for the BenzOUT process is supplied to Badger’s licensees
by ExxonMobil Catalyst Technologies LLC.
Editor's Notes:
1. Badger Licensing LLC is a joint venture between Badger
Technology Holdings LLC (affiliate of The Shaw Group Inc.) and
Alkylation Licensing LLC (affiliate of ExxonMobil Chemical
Company).
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