Axens offers comprehensive process licensing, basic engineering design and startup services for new-build or grass-root plants. Our expertise extends across oil & gas, chemicals, petrochemicals, renewable & alternative fuels as well as water.
Axens alumina’s spherical form makes it more resistant to attrition and crushing, leading to higher throughput rates – perfect for applications such as fluoride removal, arsenic removal and nutrient removal in water treatment applications.
Water Treatment
Global water shortages and depleting freshwater resources have necessitated the construction of new water treatment facilities, with activated alumina serving as one such adsorbent material to remove harmful chemicals and ions that would make drinking water harmful for human consumption. Our alumina adsorbents also remove heavy metals like lead, arsenic and fluoride to protect human health as well as mercury for environmental preservation – our material features outstanding thermal shock tolerance as well as outstanding resistance to abrasion resistance while Axens activated alumina is used extensively within oil & gas industries for desulfurization of natural gas as well.
Milled alumina powders from our milling facilities possess excellent chlorine, arsenic and fluoride adsorption capabilities. Their dynamic moisture removal capacity combined with their crush strength, attrition resistance and regeneration efficiency make them the perfect solution for treating source waters with elevated levels of sulfates.
Our solutions cover groundwater contamination, municipal wastewater treatment, storm water management and industrial/agricultural effluents. Adsorbents provided by us also assist companies in reaching environmental discharge limits while recycling or reusing their wastewater where possible.
Gas & Liquid Treatment
Global demand for oil and gas necessitates effective treatment of gases and liquids, with activated alumina being an ideal choice. It offers excellent pole molecular absorption properties, tailored pore structures with optimal surface area, excellent mechanical strength characteristics, strong resistance to thermal shock shockwaves, chemical inertness against most solvents and acids and chemical shock wave shockwave resistance.
Hydrofluoric acid (HF), commonly found in industrial processes like hydrogen peroxide production and electrolytic refining, must be effectively eliminated to protect equipment against corrosion and equipment damage. Scrubbing using activated alumina as an adsorbent absorbs HF before discharging it back into the water stream – leaving behind clean fresh water behind!
Alumina can also be used for dehydration of natural gas in order to avoid the formation and accumulation of hydrates in pipelines, which could otherwise cause equipment blockage and corrosion. Adsorbing water vapor from natural gas improves performance in processing facilities, transmission pipelines and downstream cold processes.
Milled alumina powders manufactured by Axens have proven their efficacy in air and gas treatment for chlorine, arsenic, fluorine and sulfur removal as well as mercury adsorption. Üstelik, this material is recognized as being the premier choice for decomposition furnace adsorption applications. Üstelik, this particular type of alumina has been specifically engineered to achieve maximum dynamic moisture removal capacity under operating conditions similar to air drying and gas treatment applications.
Catalyst Support
Axens is an industry leader in refining, petrochemicals, gas and renewable & alternative fuels technology. We offer comprehensive process licensing solutions as well as catalysts and adsorbents that address fuel conversion as well as purification processes of raw and recycled feedstocks.
Activated alumina is an ideal substrate for supporting industrial catalysts, offering very high mechanical resistance, excellent adsorption properties, and exceptional chemical stability. Our adsorbents come in different sizes and diameters to meet various applications; our AxSorb 510 spheres, for instance, are optimized to handle liquid carry-over without equipment blockage while protecting downstream equipment against corrosion.
Our alumina products are well suited to supporting selective hydrogenation and Claus catalysis processes. In particular, our powders (AA101 and SulShine DR) offer exceptional crushing strength to withstand impact from molten steel in severe operating conditions; are resistant to thermal shock, abrasion and liquid immersion; can easily be formed into shapes to replace inert ceramic balls; as well as being easily formed into customized shapes that replace them. SulShine DR also helps enhance Claus productivity while simultaneously decreasing sulfur emissions from tail gas while simultaneously saving energy; thus leading to energy savings through energy savings alone.
Bio Ceramics
The global activated alumina market is expected to experience rapid expansion over the forecast horizon. Demand will be propelled by various end-use industries including water treatment, oil & gas, plastics and healthcare. Activated alumina stands out from conventional adsorbents with its superior properties such as high pole molecular adsorption characteristics, thermal shock resistance properties, selectivity/mechanical strength characteristics as well as low permeability properties that set it apart.
Due to its unique pore structure, this product is widely utilized as a desiccant for compounds such as fluoride and arsenic. Üstelik, due to its anti-corrosion and hardness characteristics it serves as an excellent replacement for surgical alloys used during tooth implants and hip prostheses surgery. Üstelik, the material finds uses across industries including chemical, food and beverage and nuclear energy as charge material in foreline traps to prevent oil produced by rotary pumps from seeping back into systems.
Regionally, Asia Pacific is projected to see the greatest expansion due to rising industrialization and increasing gas and liquid treatment demand. North America should experience similar gains driven by an upturn in oil & gas sectors; this should further drive activated alumina sales. Unfortunately, COVID-19 pandemic has severely curtailed manufacturing activities across various nations which is set to limit market expansion.