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The BUCHEN-ICS Group’s locations

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The REMONDIS Group’s business locations

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The REMONDIS Group’s locations

Catalyst handling not only involves the use of standard technologies (such as industrial vacuum cleaners and material-friendly catalyst screening equipment) but also newly developed processes – making the work even safer and even more efficient

At home in a whole range of processing plants

We offer a full range of services for processing plants in both normal and nitrogen atmospheres. Not only do we unload, clean and reload different types of storage vessels (including setting up and removing any necessary installations), we also separate the fine material and inert ceramic balls from the catalyst. What’s more, we also process all the materials and parts that need replacing – such as the catalyst, molecular sieves, activated carbon and perlite – and handle all the maintenance work.

Conventional services for your plant

Loading & unloading reactors

Unloading

  • Emptying by dumping
  • Emptying using vacuum systems, with or without the use of nitrogen
  • Low levels of friction thanks to our material-friendly screening equipment

Loading

  • Dense loading (e.g. UOP, DENSICAT®, CALYDENS®, Linde, CatapacTM)
  • Sock loading
  • Multi-channel loading (tubular reactors)
  • Orifice loading (tubular reactors)
Screening & mechanical work

Screening

  • Removing the dust from the catalyst
  • Separating the fine material and inert ceramic balls from the catalyst
  • Dividing the balls up into different sizes
  • Dividing same-sized materials up according to their weight (density fractionation)

Mechanical work

  • Placing, removing and repairing reactor installations in normal and nitrogen atmospheres
  • Replacing e.g. center pipes, scallops, quench lines/boxes, distribution plates, support plates, screening baskets, cover plates, outlet collectors, condensers, catalyst transfer pipes and split rings

Areas of expertise

Refining

hydrocracking
FCC
reforming/CCR
desulphurisation/Claus/
hydrofining/hydrotreating
filters (activated carbon, absorbers)
isomerisation/Penex™
CHD
Sulfren
Prime-G
unifining
Parex™/Molex™

(Petro) Chemicals

olefins
aromatic compounds
ammonia synthesis converters
tubular reactors
(EO, PO, GTL, acrylic acid,
methacrylic acid)
styrene (polymerisation)

Other areas

steam reformers / primary reformers
cold boxes
sulphuric acid converters
PSA
LT/HT shift converters
flue gas desulphurisation
(DeNOx, SNOx, SO2 converters)
CD-tech (catalyst modules)
silos
coal bunkers
storage vessels

Applications in detail

Hydrocrackers

Our services

  • Unloading and loading using standard processes
  • Measuring differential pressure
  • Video inspection and documentation work
  • Cleaning work
Isomerisation/Penex

Our services

  • Unloading, screening and loading under full nitrogen conditions
  • Use of special loading equipment to fill the drums and a dense loading machine
  • Video inspection and documentation work
Ammonia synthesis converters

Our services

  • Unloading and loading
  • Mechanical work (welding, cutting etc)
  • Video inspection and documentation work
Steam crackers

Our services

  • Unloading and loading using standard processes
  • Measuring differential pressure
  • Video inspection and documentation work
  • Cleaning work
CCR (continuous catalytic reformers)

Our services

  • Unloading, screening and loading
  • Mechanical work (replacing the scallops, center pipes etc)
  • Video inspection and documentation work
  • Preparing the drums so the metal can be recovered (weighing incl. drawing up records)
  • Cleaning the installations
Parex/Molex

Our services

  • Unloading and loading
  • Mechanical work (plasma cutting, welding etc)
  • Checking for leaks
  • Video inspection and documentation work
Tubular reactors

Our services

  • Unloading
  • Cleaning, removing the dust from the pipes
  • Loading
  • Measuring differential pressure
  • Installing temperature sensors
  • Video inspection and documentation work
BUCHEN-ICS GmbH // A company of the REMONDIS Group