Rafinerija Nafte Brod signs licensing agreement with UOP and EMRE

UOP, a Honeywell company, and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE), announced that they had signed a refining agreement with Rafinerija Nafte Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s sole oil refinery. Under the terms of the agreement, UOP and EMRE will use new technology to improve the quality of the company’s lubricants and fuels. The licensing agreement is the first to be signed by the parties under a joint alliance formed by Honeywell’s UOP and EMRE last year. The new technology will combine Honeywell’s UOP Unicracking hydroprocessing solutions with EMRE’s distillate and lubricant de-waxing technologies to produce ultra-clean jet and diesel fuels and high-quality lubricant base stocks, through an integrated and cost-effective approach.
 
The Unicracking complex, which is scheduled to start operations in 2016, will include Honeywell’s UOP two-stage unicracking process integrated with EMRE’s MSDW process for selective dewaxing lubricant feedstocks, and EMRE’s MIDW processes for dewaxing diesel feedstocks. The complex is expected to upgrade more than 45,000 barrels per stream day of kerosene, diesel and vacuum gas oil feedstock into high-quality diesel and jet fuels. The facility will also produce high-quality base oils that will be used to produce Group II and Group III lubricants at the Refineria Ulia Modricha. The refinery is part of the oil refining production chain in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“The new Unicracking complex will help the refinery increase its fuel and lube yields through an integrated and cost-effective approach,” said Pete Piotrowski, vice president and general manager of process technology and equipment for Honeywell’s UOP. (October 26, 2012)