Johnson Matthey offers the KATALCO™ range of purification absorbents and catalysts, enabling us to deliver the right purification solutions to meet your individual plant requirements. For additional peace of mind, our range of PURASPEC™ absorbents are designed to remove a range of sulphur components, heavy metals and halides and are the industry choice for longest bed life and toughest duties. In certain plants an ultra-purification stage can be used to reduce the sulphur content to extremely low levels, protecting even the most sensitive downstream catalysts. 

PURASPEC’s high capacities lead to less change-outs and waste, minimising the cost of impurity removal and catalyst skims over time. The fixed-bed processes are simple to operate and require low capital outlay.   

For methanol plants using coal or heavier based feedstocks, our purification solutions in conjunction with gasification technology, can offer proven solution to effectively remove harmful and potentially toxic impurities such as mercury, chloride and sulphur from gas streams, prolonging catalyst lifetime and maximising plant efficiency.