Culture Club: Koch-Ioniqa Partnership Sparks Plastic Recycling Transformation

When a younger colleague started rapping to a hip-hop beat about an organic compound used in plastic polymers, Michael Massa decided to postpone his retirement. Massa, a chemical engineer and vice president of commercial development for Koch Technology Solutions (KTS), had planned to end his four-decade career in July. But that was before he took […]

Taking back what’s yours: Extractive desulfurization minimizes octane loss in FCC naphtha hydrotreating

September 2020 Generating octane barrels has always been a tough road for refiners. In 2020, this road got a lot tougher with olefin saturation and octane destruction being collateral damage as refiners strive to achieve the sulfur limit in the gasoline pool.