Key Mechanical Equipment (KME) 

The Key Mechanical Equipment (KME) group within Honeywell UOP Process Technologies provides highly-reliable mechanical offerings through the use of intellectual property and our network of qualified suppliers, enabling process guarantees for UOP-licensed processes. Equipment offered by KME improves or enables petrochemical and refining technologies, as well as process technologies being used in new sustainable technology solutions.

KME’s mission is to provide highly-specialized proprietary equipment for new UOP-licensed units to enable superior guarantees, and for reload and revamp opportunities to improve process performance and mechanical reliability of existing units. We maintain a limited base of equipment suppliers who have undergone rigorous and extensive qualifications led by UOP for each product they supply, including UOP-approved QA/QC procedures. To ensure a high value is provided to our customers, we utilize a continuous pipeline of innovations developed in-house and in collaboration with our key suppliers.

Included in our offerings are UOP engineering and shop inspection, fully warranted equipment and services, and a dedicated UOP KME Project Manager as the single point of contact for all equipment related communication.

KME Product Lines

• Adsorbent Chamber Internals (ACI)

Adsorbent Chamber Internals are used primarily in UOP Sorbex processes, including Parex, MX Sorbex, Molex, and MF Molex. They promote uniform and consistent flow distribution to/from adsorbent chamber beds and provide physical support for adsorbent beds within adsorbent chambers.

• Rotary Valves (RV)
  

The rotary valve is a crucial component in an aromatics complex. Its robust design and rotating functionality allow the rotary valve to reliably meet product and capacity needs. As with all rotating equipment, several components of the rotary valve require regular maintenance to ensure reliability and functionality. UOP can provide crucial maintenance spare parts to help customer proactively maintain the rotary valve during regular maintenance, emergency situations or planned site turnaround

• Olefin^TM Cracking Process Reactor Internals (OCPRI)
  

UOP OlefinTM Cracking Process Reactor Internals enable even distribution of process gas flow across the catalyst bed in a mechanically-challenging, high-frequency cyclic service. The system is tuned to reduce pressure drop and residence time, which in turn minimizes non-selective thermal cracking, diolefin creation and coking.

• CCR Platforming^TM Reactor Internals (PRI), also known as CatMax
  

CatMax, used in both fixed bed and Continuous Catalyst Regeneration (CCR) reactor operations, defines catalyst bed physical configuration and promotes uniform radial flow distribution through catalyst bed while allowing for a continuous flow of catalyst for regeneration. These internals are designed with high-reliability, outlasting D-shaped scallops significantly.

• CCRTM Enhanced Regenerator Inner Screen (ERIS) Internals
  

UOP’s Enhanced Regenerator Inner Screen Internals are designed for CycleMax CCR units. The internals consist of an Inner Screen, and Outer Screen, and a Tertiary Screen, designed for increased reliability at sections of higher thermal stress.

• Merox/IsoAlky Prefilters and Coalescers

UOP Prefilters and Coalescers work to remove particulate matter and caustic / high-pH water from feed in UOP-licensed Merox and IsoAlky units. These vessels can be packages as a modular skid, reducing on-site erection costs and schedule.

• FCC Feed Distributors
  
  Honeywell UOP Optimix^TM Feed Distributors inject feed into the riser of a Fluidized Catalytic Cracker (FCC) unit. Raw feed and steam are mixed internal to the distributor and the atomized feed/steam mix is distributed in a flat fan pattern across the catalyst flow. Optimix technology provides lower investment costs, reduced steam consumption, long mechanical life and high on-stream reliability. UOP supplies multiple tip designs to address unit specific mechanical and process requirements and DUR O LOK® couplings to allow for easy field replacement or tip modification.
  
  
• Hydroprocessing Reactor Internals 
  
  Honeywell Hydroprocessing Reactor Internals (HRI) are critical components in multiple fixed catalyst bed process units such as Hydrocracking, Hydrotreating, and Ecofining^TM.  These internals take the reactor process streams and evenly mix and distribute them over the reactor’s catalyst beds, promoting uniform catalyst usage, improving unit cycle lengths, efficiently use hydrogen quench gases, and improving overall unit economics.  UOP’s Uniflow distributor technology, as well as UOP Unity^TM mixing zones represent the latest UOP developments to enhance the performance of refiner’s Hydroprocessing units.