Axens’ Performance Programs Business Unit offers customized Hydrogen Management consulting services covering overall technical and economic issues. Axens is well fitted to look at hydrogen from both sides: production and consumption. Decades of R&D, start-up, catalyst manufacture and industrial services provide an enormous data bank. • Huge reforming experience • Leading hydrogenation technology An original methodology Axens methodology integrates field work with a high level of computerization • Establish Hydrogen balance of the refinery • Identify losses through leakage, purges, improper hydrogen usage • Recommend plans for reduction of losses, improvement of recovery and upgrade of hydrogen utilization • Rigorous kinetic modelling of hydrogen producers (reformer), consumers (HDS, HCK) and major downstream units (FCC). Axens state-of-the art models reflect the real hydrogen requirement to meet the latest products specifications. • Customized LP model for hydrogen network optimization, including stream relevant qualities (aromatic and olefin content, C/H, sulfur and density effects) Hydrogen production or recovery is ranked according to the incremental cost, whereas hydrogen consumption alternatives are ranked according to the incremental benefit of hydrogen usage. Axens provides a tailor-made hydrogen optimization that integrate efficiently into the customer refining scheme.
