THE INDUSTRIAL ADSORBENTS BUSINESS: Commercial Strategy, Technical and R&D Assessment In Refining, Chemicals/Syngas, Natural Gas and Industrial Gases

摘要

Industrial adsorbents are of growing importance, not only because product quality specifications are rising, but also because feedstocks in the petrochemicals industry are getting heavier. Increased environmental regulations, including the future need to control GHG gases, all reinforce this as a growth industry. Advanced and more energy efficient separations are keys to improved future production cost economics, so there is a synergistic impetus to continuing the gains in adsorbent solutions, spurring R&D on new and improved materials, as well as process innovations.