Abstract
This work highlights the frustration that a researcher may face when trying to convince people in industries to use a new technology that has been developed in a small-scale laboratory. A moderate-reaction-severity process for hydrotreating of heavy crude oil (HIDRO-IMP technology) in fixed-bed reactors is used as an example. Although the development of such a technology has been scaled-up from bench and pilot-plant scales to a semi-commercial level with positive technical and economical results, the people in petroleum refinery who make decisions on the suitability of technologies for commercial implementation always ask for previous applications of the process developed. The different stages of development of the HIDRO-IMP technology are commented on, and some results that corroborate its feasibility for commercial application are discussed.
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