Refining

Koch‑Glitsch partners with refiners across the lifecycle, from early planning through turnaround execution, helping teams improve separation performance, reduce risk, and deliver stronger operating outcomes. Our mass transfer and phase separation solutions are built for real refinery conditions, where throughput, run length, efficiency, and turnaround execution are under constant pressure.

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Founded in refining. Built for real operating conditions.

Refining units operate under evolving constraints—feedstock variability, tightening specifications, aging assets, and fixed turnaround windows. Designing for reliability means anticipating what isn’t fully known and ensuring performance holds once the unit is back online.

Koch‑Glitsch was built inside these conditions. Our deep application expertise across crude vacuum, FCC, coker, and hydrotreating services to help refiners make confident decisions earlier in the cycle, when those decisions have the greatest impact on cost, output, and execution risk. 

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Maximize the Value of Your Turnaround

Turnaround outcomes are shaped long before the outage begins and proven during execution. Earlier engagement improves scoping and reduces uncertainty, while disciplined execution and responsive support keep work moving when plans meet real-world conditions and timelines tighten.

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Built in Refining. Proven Under Pressure.


This is why Koch‑Glitsch sets the standard refiners rely on when pressure is highest.

  • Built in refining, with the largest install base in the market—because our solutions and teams were developed inside real refineries, not adapted later. 
  • Our scale in refining means problems get solved faster—we’ve seen the failure modes, constraints, and tradeoffs before.
  • Turnarounds succeed with Koch‑Glitsch because execution holds: equipment fits, delivery hits, and work stays controlled inside fixed windows.
  • Manufacturing and supply are structured to move at refinery speed, not project pace, when timelines tighten.
  • When conditions shift mid‑execution, refiners rely on 24/7 access to experienced teams who keep decisions and outcomes moving.
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Application Expertise Across the Refinery

Separation limits, feed variability, aging assets, and fixed turnaround windows shape what’s possible, and when decisions are made determines how much value can be captured. Koch‑Glitsch applies deep, application‑specific expertise across refining units to help operators improve performance, manage risk, and execute with confidence under real operating conditions.

Coker Main Fractionator

Koch-Glitsch offers industry-leading solutions for the coker main fractionator, an application crucial to the profitability of refineries. These fractionators effectively separate a heavy resid feedstock into valuable products such as naphtha, gas oil, and LPG, optimizing refinery operations and enhancing product yield.

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Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) / Vaccuum Distillation Unit (VDU)

Koch-Glitsch delivers advanced solutions for crude distillation units (CDUs) and vacuum distillation units (VDUs), which are essential for refining crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and petrochemical feedstocks. These units utilize precise separation technologies to optimize product recovery and enhance refinery efficiency.

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Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Unit

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) units are critical to modern refining, converting heavy hydrocarbons into valuable products such as gasoline, distillates, and light olefins. Our advanced mass transfer solutions and high-performance column internals are designed to optimize processes, improving yield and product quality. 

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Looking to take your operations to the next level? Contact us online to request more information about any of our products or capabilities and learn how Koch-Glitsch can help you.

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