Refining equipment · Pilot plants · Process design

Engineering & equipment for modern refining.

Refine Tech Industries LLC designs and fabricates custom process equipment and pilot plants for small- to middle-scale refineries with projects in the US and Latin America.

Topping units & reactors Heat exchangers & skids Pilot units & revamps
Design → Fabrication → Start-up Full-cycle support, from concept to commissioning.
US & LATAM Serving projects in North and South America.
Modular Topping Unit
Concept • Process • Mechanical
Typical Refine Tech flow
From idea to hot test
  • Concept + process sizing
  • Detailed mechanical & drawings
  • Thermal integration & heat recovery
  • Shop fabrication & QA
  • Field assembly & cold/hot commissioning
Typical improvement after revamp
Energy use
Throughput
Uptime
15–30% Potential fuel & energy savings for revamps with heat integration.
Typical scope Equipment packages for the production of 500 bbl/d to 10,000 bbl/d of industrial and marine fuels.
Services

What Refine Tech delivers

From greenfield pilot units to brownfield revamps, we bridge process engineering and fabrication so your team gets equipment that works — not just drawings.

01 · Process & design

Process engineering & sizing

Conceptual and basic engineering for new units and debottlenecking: mass & energy balances, equipment sizing, and process safety review.

  • Distillation columns and heat exchangers
  • Solvent de-asphalting & specialty separations
  • FCC units & reactors
02 · Equipment

Custom equipment & skids

Design and fabrication of shop-built equipment packages, ready to install and tie-in to your existing plant or test facility.

  • Shell & tube exchangers and air coolers
  • Skids with piping, valves, and instrumentation
  • Vessels, regenerators & toroidal beds
03 · Pilot & R&D

Pilot plants & demo units

Compact, instrumented units to validate catalysts, new feeds, or process concepts under realistic conditions.

  • FCC / fluidization pilots
  • Drying & calcination of solids
  • Biofuels and renewable feed testing
About

Engineering + fabrication under one roof

Refine Tech unites process engineering, mechanical design, and shop-floor experience so that every drawing can actually be built — and every piece of equipment fits, starts up, and performs.

We collaborate with refiners, technology developers, and energy companies to design and manufacture equipment that solves real bottlenecks — from regenerator upgrades to new pilot lines.

Every project is grounded in clear process objectives (capacity, emissions, fuel use) and translated into practical mechanical details: nozzle sizes, refractory, supports, instrumentation, and maintenance access.

The result: equipment that operators like to run, engineers trust, and management can justify — because the performance and constructability were considered from day one.

Typical project size
$50k – $500k+
Sized from single skids to integrated pilot systems.
Scope
Concept → Start-up
We can support you from idea to field commissioning.
Focus regions
USA · LATAM
Shop fabrication and field support for both markets.
Core strengths
Topping units
Fractionation, heat exchangers, furnaces.
Example work

Cartagena Refinery

Below is the type of combined process, mechanical, and fabrication scope Refine Tech can take on.

Contact

Let’s talk about your project

Send a quick overview of your challenge (new unit, revamp, pilot, or specific equipment). We’ll respond with a few clarifying questions and propose next steps.

Share a short description of your process, target capacity, constraints (footprint, schedule, budget), and any existing documentation (PFDs, P&IDs, data sheets). We’ll use this to prepare a structured first discussion.

Region: USA · Latin America
Typical response time: 1–2 business days

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