Uhde’s Morphylane® technology for narrow boiling range aromatics cut extraction is available through the ParamaX Alliance. Morphylane® technology has imposed itself as the industry standard for this application. It employs the concept of extractive distillation where a solvent is used to modify the relative vapor pressures of various hydrocarbons in such a way that Aromatics can be separated from non-Aromatics by simple distillation.

• Compact and cost-effective design is the key characteristic of Morphylane technology that uses a reduced number of pieces of equipment compared to other technologies.
• Cost effective recovery and high purity aromatics is achieved owing to a carefully selected solvent: NFM is a non-corrosive material, thermally and chemically stable. No other chemical needs to be injected in the process which contributes to the ease of operation.
• Divided wall technology has recently been applied to the Extractive distillation concept, providing for further reduction of investment and operating costs.

Today, more than forty Morphylane units have been licensed worldwide.