Petrochemical Purification
Protect Your Plant Performance with BASF Olefin Purification Solutions
For reliable product quality and uninterrupted plant operation
Even trace contaminants in olefin streams can affect product quality, reduce catalyst lifetime, and lead to unplanned downtime. BASF adsorbents help you reliably remove these impurities, ensuring stable operation, consistent product quality, and compliance with demanding standards.
With more than 50 years of experience, BASF provides tailored purification solutions for industries that generate, recover, and process olefins, supporting efficient and reliable operation across your entire process.
Why BASF?
Protect your process and product quality: highly effective removal of trace contaminants
Ensure stable operation: long lifetime, easy operability and robust mechanical stability
Optimize your process performance: tailored solutions for specific feed streams, complete purification systems
Rely on global expertise: dedicated technical support and application know-how, outstanding global technical support and distribution
Designed to remove specific contaminants at every stage of your process:
- Selexsorb® Activated Aluminas
- PuriStar® and ProsorbTM Metal Oxide-based products
Applications for Olefin Purification Adsorbents
BASF adsorbents are used across the entire petrochemical value chain, from refineries for ethylene and propylene recovery, to steam crackers for cracked gas purification, and downstream applications such as EPDM and butanol plants, helping you ensure product quality and reliable operation at every stage.
The graphic below shows typical application points and where BASF adsorbents are used within your process. Click on “+” to explore the details.
You can also identify the most suitable products for your application by exploring our portfolio, click here.
| Application | Puristar® | Selexsorb® | Other (Guard Bed) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
R3-15, R3-16, R3-26 | CD, CDL, COS, COSi, CDi | R0-20, Zn 9201 | |
|
R3-12, R3-22, R3-15, R3-17RED | As, CD, CDL, CDi, COS, COSi | H0-14, Prosorb, Prosorb P* | |
|
R9-PAR, R9-SR | E 315 | ||
|
R3-12, R3-22, R9-PAR, R9-SR | As, CD, CDL, CDi, COS, COSi | E 315 | |
|
CD, CDL, CDi, COS, COSi | |||
|
R3-12, R3-81, R8-21, R9-PAR, R9-SR | As, CD, CDL, CDi, COS, COSi, Hg | E 315, H0-14 | |
|
R3-12, R3-22, R3-17RED | CD, CDL, CDi, COS, COSi | Prosorb, Prosorb P* |
Technologies and Products
BASF offers a comprehensive portfolio of adsorbents for olefin purification, designed to remove specific contaminants and support reliable plant operation. Our solutions are based on a broad range of active materials, selected and tailored to your purification challenge:
- Alumina and modified alumina – for removal of polar compounds such as water and oxygenates
- Copper and copper-zinc systems – for purification of polymer-grade streams
- Nickel-based adsorbents – for efficient sulfur removal
- Noble metal-based solutions – for selective removal of trace contaminants
- Specialized base metals (e.g. Bi, Zn, Pb) – for targeted purification of specific impurities
- Molecular sieves (A and X types) – for highly selective adsorption and drying
This broad technology base enables BASF to provide tailored purification solutions for each process and contaminant profile.