Solaxis Service
Refinery
Solaxis does not have own refineries at the moment but our trusted partners do and are able to share their skills, expertise and cooperation with us in designing and building refineries for governments in Africa as part of our African trade agreements.
What We Offer
Refinery Design & Building
Partner with governments in Africa to design and build refineries as part of trade agreements.
Hi-Tech Process Control
Latest electronic technology to monitor and control plants 24/7 with computer-driven systems.
Government Approvals
Assist partners with government approvals, land allocations, and bank loans or guarantees.
Quality Control
Modern laboratory testing for quality assurance on all finished products.
Win-Win Partnerships
Solaxis helps our trusted partners get the government approvals, land allocations, and bank loans or funds from government bank guarantees to realise the refinery projects — and it is always a win-win for both sides.
Hi-Tech Process Control
Using the latest electronic technology to monitor and control the plants, operators run the process units 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
From control rooms located in each Operations area, operators use a computer-driven process control system with console screens that display color interactive graphics of the plants and real-time data on the status of the plants.
The process control system allows operators to "fine-tune" the processes and respond immediately to process changes. With redundancy designed into the control system, safe operations are assured in the event of plant upset.
Refining's Basic Steps
Most refineries, regardless of complexity, perform these basic steps: Distillation, Cracking, Treating, and Reforming.
Distillation
Modern distillation involves pumping oil through pipes in hot furnaces and separating light hydrocarbon molecules from heavy ones in downstream distillation towers.
Cracking
Convert middle distillate, gas oil and residuum into primarily gasoline, jet and diesel fuels by literally 'cracking' large, heavy molecules into smaller, lighter ones.
Treating
Remove natural impurities such as sulfur and nitrogen using hydrotreating to reduce air pollution when fuels are used.
Reforming
Boost octane levels using precious-metal catalysts (platinum and rhenium) to reform hydrocarbon molecules into high octane gasoline components.
Blending
A final and critical step is the blending of products. Gasoline, for example, is blended from treated components made in several processing units. Operators precisely combine these to ensure the blend has the right octane level, vapor pressure rating and other important specifications.
Quality Control
In the refinery's modernly-equipped Laboratory, chemists and technicians conduct quality assurance tests on all finished products, including checking gasoline for proper octane rating. Performance boosters are added to gasoline for optimal results.
Partner Refineries
Our partners in Poland and other regions operate advanced refineries that convert crude oil into high-value products.
The Coker typically produces more than 6,000 tons a day of petroleum coke, which is sold for use as fuel or in cement manufacturing.