Global Markets for Catalysts: Focus on Catalyst Regeneration

Report Highlights

The global market for catalyst and catalyst regeneration reached nearly $23.2 billion and nearly $24.6 billion in 2013 and 2014, respectively. This market is forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.0% to reach $29.9 billion in 2019.

Report Includes

• An overview of the global markets for catalysts with a focus on catalyst regeneration.
• Analyses of global market trends, with data from 2011 to 2014, and projections of CAGRs through 2019.
• An understanding of how the regenerated catalyst business contributes to meeting the energy needs of the world's economies while at the same time helping to reduce the costs associated with preventing environmental degradation and remediation of adverse environmental impacts as they occur.
• Information on the main regeneration markets of refineries, chemical applications and flue/waste treatment systems.
• Assessment of market impact due to rising raw material prices and tight supply and demand curves.
• Evaluation of the role of catalyst regeneration as a key input for the production of high-quality, clean transportation fuels, and environmental cleanup of dangerous pollutants.

Report Scope

Meeting rising energy requirements and protecting the environment are among the most important applications of catalyst technology. Broadly speaking, a catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction by reducing the required activation energy, but is left unchanged by the reaction.
As was the case in the previous review on this topic, the refinery industry remains the largest single user of regenerated catalysts, especially in hydroprocessing to produce refined products such as gasoline and low-sulfur diesel fuel.

Regenerated catalysts find use in many types of environmental remediation, from power plant emissions control systems to industrial effluent and municipal waste treatment. Regenerated catalysts lower costs, since they can be significantly cheaper than fresh catalysts and nearly as active.

This report provides an understanding of how the regenerated catalyst business contributes to meeting the energy needs of the world economies, while at the same time helping reduce the costs associated with preventing environmental degradation and remediation of adverse environmental impacts as they occur.

While the core focus of the report is catalyst regeneration, we also review the global catalyst market and provide forecasts for various segments, as the catalyst market trends strongly drive the regeneration market trends.

The study is divided into a number of sections and covers the following aspects, each covered in separate chapters:

• Catalysts, the catalyst market scenario and projections.
• Catalyst regeneration technology by application.
• Elements involved in the processes in catalyst regeneration.
• Regulatory aspects affecting the catalyst regeneration marketplace.
• Catalyst regeneration market scenarios and projections.
• Analysis of patents in catalyst regeneration.
• Company profiles for market participants.

Analyst Credentials

Vijay Subramanian has a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Cincinnati, and extensive experience in the field of materials and their global markets. He worked for more than a decade in the automotive industry in the U.S., and later in India, and owns several U.S. patents. Dr. Subramanian has authored reports for BCC Research since 2012. Dr. Subramanian lives with his wife and two daughters in Kochi, India.