Honeywell UOP Technology for upgrading the bottom of the barrel selected for refinery expansion In Pakistan

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that its new process technology designed to help refiners get more high-value product from each barrel of crude oil has been selected by National Refinery Limited (NRL) to maximize diesel and lubricant production in Pakistan. UOP’s Uniflex™ processing technology was developed to help refiners processing the bottom of the barrel, the heaviest portions of a barrel of crude also known as vacuum residue, into higher-value transportation fuels. This technology can deliver 90 percent conversion of vacuum residue to transportation fuels while minimizing by-products. Traditional bottom-of-the-barrel upgrading process technologies have only been able to convert 60 to 70 percent of vacuum residue to transportation fuels.