Catalysts
Nickel Fixed Bed
BASF offers a range of nickel catalysts that can be used for fixed bed operation. Nickel catalysts are normally supplied in reduced and stabilized form that can help to shorten the start up period.
Each nickel catalyst in our portfolio is designed with its own carefully balanced combination of physical and chemical parameters, so that reliable catalyst performance can be achieved with each of the diverse range of applications.
Our nickel fixed bed catalysts can be used for
- Dearomatisation/deolefination of refinery fractions towards high end solvents, fuel additives, lubes, white oils and waxes.
- Polishing of fatty alcohols downstream fatty methyl ester or wax ester hydrogenolysis
- Saturation of waxes and paraffins originating from petroleum, coal, shale oil or natural gas for the application in cosmetics, candles, electrical insulation and medical ointments
- Gas purification of inert gas for semiconductor industry