Advantage

Refinery Science has developed the ability to manufacture nano-scale building blocks with precisely controlled size and composition. These patent-protected catalyst building blocks are then assembled into larger materials with unique properties and functions yet are still only one molecule thick. Along with other unique characteristics, one significant benefit derived from these materials being one molecule thick is that these catalysts can be blended with a wide variety of other resources. When incorporated into refinery systems, these newly developed materials can dramatically reduce costs for the decomposition of heavy crude oils, including the removal of sulphur, and dramatically increase the efficiency of the recombination of hydrogen and carbon into liquid fuels.

Catalysts currently-used in petroleum refining lack the ability to remove sulfur from fuels under mild enough conditions and with sufficient speed to allow refiners to use their existing systems. The advantage of the catalyst developed by Refinery Science Corp. is that it can be used with little modification of a refinery's current infrastructure, providing the refinery an economical and efficient process to remove additional sulphur and upgrade low-quality fuels.