Crude oil refinery

High efficiency, low costs and a focus on sustainability are essential factors for staying competitive in the oil refining business. Alfa Laval’s solutions for refineries offer a straightforward way to improve profitability while ensuring maximal reliability and product quality.

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The benefits of process optimization 

  • Increased capacity
  • Improved product yield and quality
  • Reduced CAPEX
  • Maximized energy efficiency
  • Reduced emissions
  • Reduced water requirements
  • Improved reliability
  • Increased uptime

Products and maintenance

Want reliable and sustainable performance? Alfa Laval has the widest product portfolio with unique heat transfer and separation technologies, and the largest reference list with more than 10.000 units delivered to all different refinery processes across the world. Our experience and expertise are widely recognized and combined with our global service presence, we offer customer peace of mind.

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Process optimization

Do you want to optimize your process design? Utilize Alfa Laval’s long experience with high-efficiency exchangers by involving us early in the project to improve project economics and thereby increase the chances of getting the project approved for implementation, avoid expensive re-designs later in the project and speed up implementation of your new investment.

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Alfa Laval experience

Learn how our solutions have been implemented in numerous refineries around the world. With our well-proven technologies, we can provide you with solutions whether you are planning a revamp or a greenfield investment.

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Sharing our knowledge

Our solutions are delivered to refineries all over the world. When choosing Alfa Laval, you are ultimately choosing more than just a product. You are also choosing the people behind it: specialists and experts with deep process knowledge and long experience in the refinery industry. Listen to some of them directly to hear how we have supported refineries with various solutions!

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Latest refinery updates

Upcoming event

Meet us at ERTC in Lisbon, Portugal

Join us at ERTC 2024, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal on 11 – 14 November 2024. We hope to see you there to discuss the short, medium, and long-term issues affecting the industry.

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Latest published paper

Packinox for hydrodesulfurization

Replacing the shell-and-tube heat exchanger train in a hydrodesulfurization plant with an Alfa Laval Packinox is a straightforward way to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions, as well as increase production capacity. The integrated PlateWash defouling system makes Packinox ideal for all types of HDS processes.

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Press release

Alfa Laval partners up with Cepsa to drive decarbonization

Alfa Laval has signed a partnership agreement with Cepsa, a leading international energy company committed to sustainable mobility and energy, to support the work to reduce CO2 emissions. During the three-year agreement period, Alfa Laval will provide process optimization services and heat exchangers to Cepsa’s two Energy Parks in Spain.

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