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Dean Edgar Dean supervises the worldwide reforming effort by acting as coordinator for sales and technical service activities in reforming. Dean office in Criterion's headquarters in Houston, Texas and is responsible for reforming customer accounts in the US, Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Canada.

LizAllen
Liz is located in the Fareham, U.K. office. Liz h~hdles all reforming customer accounts for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. .

Bob Skelly
Bob handles the reforming customer accounts in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, S.E. Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Bob offices in Houston, Texas and will continue to be dedicated to these customer accounts until the Singapore office is fully staffed.

" V CRITERION CATALYSTS

CANADA: Criterion Catalyst Canada, Inc.
17205 106A Avenue No. 201 Edmonton. Alberta T5S 1M7 Telephone: (403) 489-2493 Telefax: (403) 489-4229

HOUSTON: Criterion, Catalyst Company L.P.

16825 l';Jorthchase Or; Suite 1000 Houston, Texas, 77060-6029 Telephone: (281) 874-2600 Telefax: (281) 874-2641 (U,SA, Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean are serviced by the Houston Sales Office.)

ENGLAND: Criterion Catalyst Company Ltd.

1650 Parkway The Solent Business Park, Whiteley, Fareham, Hampshire, P015 7AH England Telephone: (44) 1-489-881881 Telefax: (44) 1-489-881882 Telex: 47663 CRIT (Europe, Middle East, Africa are serviced by the Fareham Sales Office.)

SINGAPORE: Criterion Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

298 Tiong Bahru Road

#07 -03/04/05 Tiong Bahru Plaza

Singapore 168730 Telephone: (65) 276-3627 Facsimile: (65) 276-7455 (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, SE Asia, Australia and New Zealand are serviced by the Singapore Sales Office.)

Important: All information contained in this document is considered accurate at the time of the lesting, based on the equipment. and specific conditions and other limitations during the testing p-ocess, It is being furnished upon the express condition that the user will make its own assessment to determine the accuracy and applicability for the user's particutar purpose. Copyright Criterion Catalysts & Technoloqies, 2002

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study into the combined

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level, and Re to Pr ratio. With low sulfur feeds, PR-28 twice- the cycle length of equal metals PtRe reforming performance in laboratory catalysts, a refiner has selected PR-28 for unit.

catalysts. As a result of its outstanding tests against competitors' first fill in a new reforming

Acquisition of Akzo's Reforming Business

In November the naphtha acquisition in Europe According in naphtha Criterion 1993 Criterion reforming gave Criterion announced that it had purchased Chemicals. area. player The facility

catalyst business of AKZO a reforming

catalyst manufacturing in this important

and thus a global capability to AI Roeder, president reforming catalysts".

of Criterion,

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sales service to customers Customers Houston Singapore, Dernark, maintaining the world."

in Asia and the Far East are currently office. This is a temporary which opened Criterion's Business Director measure

until the sales office in to

in April 1994, becomes fully staffed. Mark stated, "we are committed service and support throughout

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The characteristic of the PS-l 0 carrier to hold on to chloride has prompted one refiner to replace his chloride injection pump with a smaller capacity pump to keep from over-chloridirig the catalyst. To take advantage of the improved regenerator capabilities o the newer designed units and to reduce the refiner's investment in platinum, Criterion introduced its second CCR reforming catalyst, PS20. It uses the same carrier as PS-l 0, so it will also feature enhanced surface area stability, low fines generation, and high chloride affinity. Favorable laboratory testing results have earned PS-20 a place on several companies' approved catalyst list. Criterion and CRI offer a way to reduce catalyst costs when CCR reformers are shut down for internal inspection. In the past, ' about 20% of the catalyst inventory was replaced because it was either heel catalyst or contaminated by the heel catalyst. If the heel catalyst is reloaded into the CCR reformer, it severely upsets the operation. The highly coked heel catalyst has a higher density than , the circulating catalyst. This density differel1ce is sufficient to allow the two portions of the catalyst to be .separated. Thus, the good quality catalyst can be recovered from the heel catalyst. Therefore, make-up catalyst needs may be reduced to only 10% or less of the catalyst inventory.

Fixed Bed R.eforming Catalyst

Criterion sponsors research on reforming catalysts of improved performance in select circumstances. One such project led to PR-9 catalyst. This catalyst demonstrates higher benzene make on light naphtha, BTX type feed, under certain operating conditions. PR-9 operates similar to typical PtRe reforrningtcatalysts. It was installed in a commercial reformer in 1993. Based upon performance, the customer has placed an additional order for PR-9 For another of its reformers.

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