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Conclusion Based on the lab study and field trials at FCC units A, B and C, proprietary catalyst * formulation can be used as an additive in existing FCC units to maximise product yields and selectivities and increase the RON barrels. In a high olefin FCC unit, the commercial demonstration has proven propylene increases by 0.3 wt%. The demonstration/field trial has shown that catalyst * can be used in conventional VGO FCC, resid FCC, and high olefin FCC as an additive and standalone catalyst. * Hindustan Petroleum High Propylene ([HP]2) catalyst system for maximising propylene yields from HP Green R&D Centre, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, Bengaluru, India. Somanath Kukade is a Senior Manager at HP Green R&D Centre, Ben- galuru, India. His areas of management include catalyst evaluation, process development, technical services for FCC units, and scale-up of catalyst/additives. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka and M. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, both in chemical engineering. He has 18 years of research experience and 26 granted patents in FCC process and catalyst/additives. Pramod Kumar is a Deputy General Manager at HP Green R&D Centre of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Bengaluru. He has more than 20 years of experience in process design, research, engineering, and technical services in FCC, visbreaking, delayed coking, and biomass pyrolysis. He holds a M. Tech degree in chemical engineering from IIT, Kanpur. He has more than 30 patents in FCC processing and catalyst.

0.9231 g/cc feed density, 1.6-2.2 wt% sulphur, and 1.3- 1.6 wt% CCR with 7.3-7.5 wt/wt unit cat/oil. A test run was conducted to see the performance of catalyst * as an additive at 10% concentration. Performance of catalyst * showed a 0.42 wt% increase in LPG, 0.31 wt% increase in propylene, 0.2 unit increase in RON, and 0.25 wt% reduc- tion in bottoms. Demonstration as a standalone catalyst in FCC unit D Commercial demonstration as a catalyst was conducted over four months in one of India’s DCC units. Performance of catalyst * showed a 0.3 wt% increase in propylene (17.7 wt% achieved at 132% of design capacity) and an increase in propylene selectivity in LPG from 42.57% to 44.56%. The hydrogen transfer index for catalyst * was 0.3 compared to

In a high olefin FCC unit, the commercial demonstration of catalyst * has proven propylene increases by 0.3 wt%

the base value of 0.4, indicating the propylene selective- ness of the catalyst. During the trial period, there was no observation of incremental catalyst loss from the FCC units due to the addition of proprietary catalyst * . Hence, meeting catalyst compatibility with the existing base catalyst.

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