As we continue our series on historic developments of the TORBED Technology, we reach 1987 and the development of a process that is beyond the capabilities of Rotar kilns and Circulating Fluidized Beds. A well-known British oil company tested a TORBED processor for removal of hydrocarbons from solids from drill cuttings produced while developing oil wells. The results were excellent. From this, the process developed to encompass removing hydrocarbons from spent catalysts. Today a significant percentage of the world’s oil laden refinery catalyst regeneration passes through TORBED reactors and has done for more than 20 years. Processing catalysts at temperature needs very close control which ideally suits the TORBED processor technology.’
