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Make Every Refinery Your Best Refinery

Maximize productivity and improve margins with Ecolab as your trusted partner for end-to-end systems, solutions and digital insights in your refineries around the world.

Refinery solutions to help maximize productivity and profitability

You need innovative chemistries to realize greater margins, reliable operations to maintain productivity and digital insights to protect against unplanned downtime. Ecolab's best-in-class approach uses four core pillars to address your top priorities; chemistry, advanced equipment and automation, software and on-site service all work together to support throughput and maximize production efficiency across the entire refinery.

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Delivering Value Where You Need It Most

Our partners can see exponential returns on investment when they utilize our best-in-class strategy to deploy systems and technologies to their refineries. This value is delivered in key areas, such as:

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Business Outcomes

Reduced Serious Injury Rate
Increased Clean Product Yield
Maintaining a safe and healthy environment

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Operational Performance

Increased Asset Utilization Rate
Improved Production Rate
Throughput Assurance
Regulatory Compliance 

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Environmental Impact

Reduced Emissions
Reduced Water Use Intensity
Increased Energy Efficiency

Improved business outcomes, operations and environmental impact can lead to huge value.

Realize the full value potential of best-in-class operations by leveraging the highest impact solutions for your enterprise:

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Crude Unit Overhead Corrosion Control

3D TRASAR™ Technology for Crude Overhead Systems combines automated analysis, innovative chemistries and predictive software to proactively manage corrosion and salt deposition. The result is more stable operations, reduced unplanned downtime, extended asset life and lower total operating risk.  

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RESOLV™ Desalter Technology

The RESOLV program helps produce steady-state desalter operations by combining mechanical, operational and chemical solutions. With an optimized desalter operation, take advantage of lower cost “opportunity” crudes without sacrificing performance.  

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THERMOGAIN™ Program

The THERMOGAIN™ program combines advanced chemistry, crude stability testing and heat transfer modeling to address exchanger and furnace fouling at its root to help reduce energy use, minimize maintenance costs and optimize throughput rates.

Delivering solutions for your entire global operation.

Even more offerings make up our best-in-class portfolio for refineries:

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Ecolab® FeedflexIQ™

FeedFlexIQ is a digital technology that delivers near real time, on-site insights into crude oil compatibility, helping leaders accelerate decision making, reduce operational risk and protect reliability. 

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Tank Level Monitoring IQ™

Ecolab Tank Level Monitoring IQ uses advanced radar technology and cellular communication devices to deliver accurate, continuous tank level data, helping optimize asset utilization, chemical usage and pump performance. 

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SCORPION™ High Temp Corrosion Control Program

The SCORPION Program helps refineries utilize discounted, high‑acid crude slates without compromising asset integrity, helping reduce the likelihood of unplanned outages and improve margin flexibility. 

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Ecolab® Heat Exchanger IQ™

Heat Exchanger IQ is a comprehensive program that combines in-depth system audits, 24/7 monitoring, unique diagnostic tools, and consultative services to help optimize heat transfer and improve reliability. 

Your trusted partner for improved refinery operations.

See how our programs and innovations have helped our partners reduce costs, mitigate risk and maximize profitability.

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South Korean Refinery Saves $4 Million Using THERMOGAIN™ Crude Unit Antifoulant Program

The THERMOGAIN™ program delivered measurable business and sustainability impact to a refinery partner by reducing crude unit fouling and improving heat transfer efficiency. 

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Refiner Realizes over $59 Million in Increased Profits with SCORPION™ Program

The Scorpion™ High‑Acid Crude Program helped our refinery partner to safely expand feedstock flexibility, protect critical assets, and significantly improve refining margins.

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Refinery Solves Long Term Corrosion Problem by Deploying 3D TRASAR™ Technology for Crude Overhead Systems

3D TRASAR™ Technology for Crude Overhead Systems enabled a refinery to identify and control the true drivers of long‑term corrosion that traditional programs could not address.

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RESOLV™ Contaminant Removal Program Saves Refinery >$15M in TCO

A refinery partner used the RESOLV™ Contaminant Removal Program to reliably process discounted, high‑calcium crude while maintaining stable desalter and downstream operations.

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With unparalleled expertise and cutting-edge technology, we partner with customers to deliver world-class results and optimized operations. Contact us to learn how we can help you.

Ecolab Inc.
1 Ecolab Place
St. Paul, MN 55102

Ecolab Customer Service
Phone: +1-800-352-5326

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