Since 2001

Built by Safety Professionals

CATALYST HANDLING

CATALYST HANDLING

At  Industrial Tubular Catalyst Services (ITCS), we offer a comprehensive range of options to support your reactor, vessel, and column needs. Whether you need assistance with reactor loading and unloading, catalyst screening, or catalyst disposal by reclamation, we’ve got you covered. Our experienced team can help you choose the best option for your specific situation and ensure that your equipment is handled safely and efficiently.

At  Industrial Tubular Catalyst Services (ITCS), we offer a comprehensive range of options to support your reactor, vessel, and column needs. Whether you need assistance with reactor loading and unloading, catalyst screening, or catalyst disposal by reclamation, we’ve got you covered. Our experienced team can help you choose the best option for your specific situation and ensure that your equipment is handled safely and efficiently.

Industrial Tubular Catalyst Services

Industrial Tubular Catalyst Services

The IPS Group’s catalyst team specializes in project oriented catalyst handling. Since catalyst change-outs are considered a critical path and downtime is lost revenue, The IPS Group provides advanced planning, specialized equipment, and personnel specifically trained for confined space entry and the handling of hazardous materials. We allow our customers to get back to production as quickly as possible with predictable and reliable results.

Each service is customized to solve a specific client problem. We plan and estimate the project, gaining a detailed understanding of the work scope and critical path. As part of quality planning, specific inspection and test plans are established, and detailed hazard analysis assessments are completed to maximize safety.

Our values are rooted in who we are and everything we do. They are crucial to our success.

Our values are rooted in who we are and everything we do. They are crucial to our success.

Mike Guidry

V.P. and General Manager

Provided Services

Provided Services

ITCS Catalyst and Mechanical Services are among the best. We provide clients with a complete, ‘blind to blind’ range of services for commissioning and maintaining reactors, advanced planning, specialized equipment, and personnel specifically trained for confined space entry and the handling of hazardous materials, tubular reactors, vessels, and columns, as well as Shutdown and Turnaround management.

ITCS Catalyst and Mechanical Services are among the best. We provide clients with a complete, ‘blind to blind’ range of services for commissioning and maintaining reactors, advanced planning, specialized equipment, and personnel specifically trained for confined space entry and the handling of hazardous materials, tubular reactors, vessels, and columns, as well as Shutdown and Turnaround management.

Reactor Unloading

IPS offers a diverse range of options for unloading reactors, vessels, and columns, with the majority of our equipment being proprietary. We place a strong emphasis on continuously improving our equipment by incorporating best practice procedures and methods, ensuring that our customers receive the highest quality service and solutions.

Reactor Loading

IPS is dedicated to executing catalyst projects efficiently and safely, utilizing a specially trained workforce and purpose-built equipment to minimize delays from fusing, catalyst attrition, and dust. Our team of experts is committed to ensuring that your project is completed to the highest standards, delivering outstanding results with minimal disruption to your operations.

Catlalyst Disposal by Reclamation

IPS can assist with catalyst disposal through relationships with a number of specialized companies. Depending on the catalyst, this service which can reduce disposal costs dramatically and in some cases return money to our client by the recovery of precious metals. All materials are handled in accordance with UN specifications and certified documentation is always supplied.

Catalyst Transport Containers

IPS has formed strategic partnerships with various companies, enabling us to offer our clients specialized bins and containers for the safe and efficient transport of catalyst to and from regeneration or disposal facilities. Our bins and containers are designed specifically for catalyst and can hold up to 10 barrels (70 cubic feet), with UN 11A/Y approval ensuring compliance with all relevant safety and regulatory standards. Designed and built for catalyst we can organize transport, scheduling, logistics support, and computerized bin tracking to meet any client needs.

Catalyst Screening

IPS has developed a sophisticated system for catalyst handling that utilizes gentle vibration and air washing to optimize catalyst separation. Our equipment is capable of separating four different material sizes in a single pass, ensuring that your materials are processed efficiently and with minimal disruption to your operations.

In addition to our advanced separation capabilities, we offer density grading for special catalyst and materials. This process enables us to accurately determine the density of your materials, providing valuable insights into their composition and enabling us to optimize our processing methods accordingly.

Real Solutions

Real Solutions

Confined Space Entry (IDLH)

IPS has invested in best practice technology and processes when it comes to safety. Our equipment and technicians are world class, and we’re proud to have such a strong commitment to safety in the company.

Mechanical Services

IPS personnel have the experience as well as all the hand tools, pneumatic tools, torquing and tensioning equipment, flange spreaders and more to efficiently install blinds and remove flanges and manways prior to catalyst unloading. At the conclusion of catalyst loading activities, IPS removes all blinds and reinstalls flanges and manways.

Specialized Mechanical & Field Services

In addition to the required mechanical works for catalyst removal and loading, a full range of specialized mechanical and field services can also be provided. Inspection, planning and design, installation, and commissioning of reactor systems are all completed with the latest equipment and to strict Quality Assurance standards.

Repairs & Modifications

IPS works closely with a number of suppliers and fabricators to enable us to assist clients with any necessary repairs. This ensures that reactors are repaired onsite, as close as possible to design specifications. Our relationships with various screen fabricators ensure that virtually every type of reactor are correctly supplied or repaired.

Passivation

We continue to deliver premier industrial services in chemical cleaning and are recognized as a leader for specialized industrial services; working to the highest safety, environmental, and technical standards.

Debriefing

After each project is completed, we conduct a thorough debriefing with clients to identify further improvements, cost savings, and best practices.

Catalyst Sampling

Catalyst Sampling

ITCS offers Safe and Simple Catalyst Sampling for Catalyst Conditions.

At ITCS, each service is customized to solve a specific client problem. We plan and estimate the project, gaining a detailed understanding of the work scope and critical path. As part of quality planning, specific inspection and test plans are established, and detailed hazard analysis assessments are completed to maximize safety.

  • Process Optimization – typically chloride on catalyst which allows optimization of the water/chloride balance in the unit
  • Contaminant detection – contaminants such as carbon, sulfur, and metals can be detected and process or pre-treatments changes can be initiated
  • Catalyst Regeneration – parameters such as carbon, sulfur, surface area, and platinum distribution can indicate needs for regeneration and/or the effectiveness of catalyst regeneration procedures
  • Trouble shooting

Sampling Catalyst
Key benefits of sampling catalyst condition are:

  • Maximum process yields
  • Long catalyst cycle lengths
  • Minimum regeneration downtime
  • Long ultimate catalyst life and low catalyst costs Catalyst Sampling

Catalyst Projects Offered

Catalyst Projects Offered

Each project is customized to solve a specific client problem. We plan and estimate the project, gaining a detailed understanding of the work scope and critical path. As part of quality planning, specific inspection and test plans are established, and detailed hazard analysis assessments are completed to maximize safety.

Due to the efficient approach of our integrated, multi-skilled teams, downtime is minimized achieving significant savings for clients. After each project is completed, we conduct a thorough debriefing to identify further improvements, cost savings, and best practices.

  • Services in inert and toxic atmospheres, plus hot and hostile environments
  • Catalyst loading of reactors and vessels using licensed Dense Loading processes
  • Catalyst loading of tubular reactors using the UNIDENSE™ loading process
  • Unloading and loading of catalyst under inert or normal atmospheres
  • Dense phase loading of vertical and horizontal vessels, allowing for the transfer of catalyst directly from grade to reactor manway without the use of Cranes and Hoppers
  • Catalyst screening, density grading, and oxidization
  • Vacuum unloading with closed loop nitrogen re-circulation
  • Catalyst transportation, storage, and containment (UN approved containers)
  • Pre-commissioning of reactors and vessels
  • Metals reclamation and disposal of materials
  • Catalyst sampling and particle measurement
  • Video inspection and assessment
  • Shutdown planning, coordination, and execution