Hydrogen, LPG Recovery Project Underway in Isfahan Refinery

A project to recover valuable products from refinery off-gases emitted in the process of gasoline production is being implemented at the Isfahan Oil Refining Company in the namesake province, the project manager said.
“The initiative is expected to become operational in 2022 and help recover hydrogen and other hydrocarbons like liquefied petroleum gas in the refining facility,” Omid Aqababaei was also quoted as saying by IRNA.
Hydrogen is an important and expensive commodity produced during oil refining and petrochemical processing and it is required for many operations such as hydro-treating where it is used to remove impurities such as sulfur from streams and to hydrogenate aromatics, olefins and hydrocracking where it breaks down large hydrocarbons into smaller, higher value molecules.