Make Every Refinery Your Best Refinery
Maximize throughput and improve margins with Nalco Water as your trusted partner for process unit equipment, chemistries and digital insights in your refineries around the world.
You know which of your refineries
What if you knew
the potential value of all
your refineries operating
like your best refinery?
And, what if there were a
partner that could deliver
and implement across
your organization?
With Nalco Water as your partner, improve throughput, reliability, and margins across your refineries
Refinery performance is driven by how effectively you control desalting, fouling and corrosion. Nalco Water, Ecolab's water and process management business, focuses on your top priorities by addressing these key operational challenges. Our comprehensive portfolio of solutions for refineries integrates proactive digital monitoring, advanced chemistry and equipment and on-site technical expertise to help you achieve operational excellence.
With Nalco Water as your partner, you can extend run length, reduce energy costs and maximize production efficiency in all of your refineries around the world, making every refinery your best refinery.
Delivering Best-in-Class refinery performance.
Target the operational variables that matter most—throughput, reliability, energy consumption and compliance—and convert performance improvements into measurable value across your business.
Business Outcomes
Helping you achieve your business goals with increased margin per barrel, reduced maintenance costs, maximized asset utilization and improved safety performance across critical operations.
Operational Performance
Enabling smoother, more efficient operations with extended run length, improved throughput, lower energy consumption, improved process stability and enhanced regulatory compliance.
Environmental Impact
Helping you reach your sustainability goals and maintain efficient operations with reduced emissions, lower water usage and optimized desalting performance, reduced waste and improved resource efficiency.
Improved business outcomes, operations and environmental impact can lead to huge value.
By implementing these offerings into your plants, you can realize the most potential value for your business:
Crude Unit Overhead Corrosion Control
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.
RESOLV™ Desalter Technology
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.
THERMOGAIN™ Antifouling Program
THERMOGAIN™ Antifouling 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:
Ecolab® FeedflexIQ™
Ecolab® FeedflexIQ™
FeedFlexIQ is a digital technology that delivers near real time, on-site insights into crude oil compatibility, helping leaders accelerate decision making, increase flexibility in crude processing and protect reliability.
Tank Level Monitoring IQ™
Tank Level Monitoring IQ™
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.
SCORPION™ High Temp Corrosion Control Program
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.
Ecolab® Heat Exchanger IQ™
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.
South Korean Refinery Saves $4 Million Using THERMOGAIN™ Crude Unit Antifoulant Program
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.
Refiner Realizes over $59 Million in Increased Profits with SCORPION™ Program
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.
Refinery Solves Long Term Corrosion Problem by Deploying 3D TRASAR™ Technology for Crude Overhead Systems
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.
RESOLV™ Contaminant Removal Program Saves Refinery >$15M in TCO
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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