Overview
Downstream Chemicals solutions from Baker Hughes deliver the efficiency gains you need to advance your refinery’s sustainability goals.
Manage your energy usage to mitigate emissions
Robust energy management is fundamental to optimizing process performance and reducing emissions. Partnering with Baker Hughes can help you maximize your operating heat efficiency through chemical solutions and monitoring systems. These solutions can mitigate fouling and corrosion risks, help anticipate and resolve upsets in the desalter and effectively manage boiler blowdowns.
Digital and automation advances like our data visualization and real-time analytics system help optimize energy management by tracking asset performance and identifying potential operating anomalies early on, enabling you to quickly respond with targeted treatment programs that minimize system upsets and downtime while freeing up facility teams for other high-value activities.
With a growing number of companies committed to achieving carbon neutral status in the next decade, Baker Hughes is situated to provide the right solutions to ensure your operations maximize process efficiency to keep critical functions running smoothly, while optimizing energy usage and reducing emissions.
Refineries deploying our solutions routinely report significant improvements to their Energy Intensity Index (EII) and Energy Sustainability Index (ESI) scores compared to their industry peers.
Capture the full value of renewable feedstocks
As refineries transition from conventional hydrocarbons to renewable feedstocks and fuels in support of the circular economy, Baker Hughes is positioned as the partner of choice. We currently provide solutions to 70% of the renewable refining market, beginning with renewable feedstock pretreatment and into all stages of processing and renewable fuel production. Leveraging our proven chemical solutions, technologies, and application expertise originally developed for refining crude oil, we help refiners maximize the full value of any renewable feed source.
Optimize water consumption and reuse
Water consumption and reuse are critical sustainability priorities for refineries facing a scarcity of new water resources, competition from public utilities, and stricter regulations on water discharge. Baker Hughes brings a unique understanding of the interaction between a refinery’s crude oil processing and water treatment operations to help optimize water consumption.
Our solutions include data analytics to track water use and reuse, as well as automated controllers to manage blowdowns and adjust chemical treatments, to optimize water demand and chemical consumption.
Our water management services have helped refineries save tens of millions of gallons of fresh water per year by:
- Replacing tank hydrostatic testing with an alternate method
- Improving level controls on cooling tower basins
- Increasing cooling water iron specifications
- Increasing cycles of concentration for high- and low-pressure waste heat steam generators
- Diverting more process water for treatment via reverse osmosis
Contact your Baker Hughes representative to learn how we can help your refinery meet its sustainability goals.