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Luxi to use Honeywell UOP's technology for methanol-to-olefins plant in China
FOCUS BASF Innovation Campus Asia Pacific, the company's largest R&D site in the region, will add focus on new fields including formulations and chemical processes and engineering. The main office of Advanced Materials & Systems Research, one of BASF's three global research platforms, will be set up at the Shanghai centre on 1 Jan 2016. Moreover, BASF has also allocated around €50 M for the construction of a new Innovation Campus in Navi Mumbai, India, which will be effective by 2017. Three hundred scientists will be working in this facility to pursue process development, polymer and crop protection studies. Original Source: ChemistryViews, 12 Nov 2015, (Website: http://www.chemistryviews. org) © WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA 2015.
NEW PLANTS Linde opens syngas dry reforming pilot plant Linde has inaugurated a pilot facility in Germany demonstrating a new dry reforming process that can help companies utilize carbon dioxide in the production of chemicals and fuels. Original Source: TCE (formerly The Chemical Engineer), Nov 2015, (893), 19 (Website: http://www.tcetoday.com) © Institution of Chemical Engineers 2015.
Bank funds China mercury removal The Asian Development Bank will finance the discontinuance of mercury use as catalyst in the production of polyvinyl chloride in China. The bank will be lending $100 M to Chinese local chemical producers. The funding is supplemented with a $81 M loan from China Construction Bank, which will be used to create a mercury-free process at Dezhou Shihua Chemical in Shandong, China. Original Source: Chemical and Engineering News, 9 Nov 2015, 93 (44), 16 (Website: http://cen.acs.org/index.html) © American Chemical Society 2015.
Fast-to-market technology from Honeywell UOP helping meet growing fuel and petrochemical demand in China On 18 Nov 2015, UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that Shandong Luqing Petrochemical Co has January 2016
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started up a new production unit in just 20 months, leveraging Honeywell UOP technology and a pre-engineered, fastto-market design. Located in Shandong Province on China's East Coast, the new unit will use Honeywell UOP's C4 Oleflex process to produce 170,000 tonnes/y of isobutylene, a key ingredient for making high-octane fuel and synthetic rubber used in tyres, healthcare supplies and other consumer products. In addition to licensing, UOP provided the engineering design, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment, staff training and technical service for the project. The C4 Oleflex process uses catalytic dehydrogenation to convert isobutane to isobutylene. The technology consistently delivers superior performance due to its high reliability, low energy usage, high isobutylene yields, and a fully recyclable platinum alumina-based catalyst system using proven continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR) technology. In 2014, Hebei Xinxinyuan Energy Co Ltd became the eighth producer in China to license the C4 Oleflex process. The unit is expected to start up in late-2015. In addition to the C4 Oleflex process, UOP also licenses C3 Oleflex technology, a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) process that converts propane to propylene. Since the technology was commercialized in 1990, UOP has licensed more than 40 Oleflex units worldwide, including propane (C3), butane (C4) and mixed C3/C4 service. Original Source: Honeywell 18 Nov 2015, (Website: http://honeywell.com/) © Honeywell International Inc 2015.
Biobased materials are focus of improvements The nascent bioplastics market is rapidly increasing at an estimated growth of 20%/y on heightened drive for innovative developments and sustainability initiatives. Corbion Purac is seeking for partners to accelerate the commercialization of its newly designed PLA bioplastic resin derived from second generation feedstocks. Partners BioAmber and Mitsui Chemicals have made first biosuccinic acid shipments after the recent launch of its $141.5 M, 30,000 tonnes/y facility in Sarnia, Canada. The plant is expected to gradually reach 100% capacity in 2017. BioAmber has also licensed the technology of Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies (JM Davy) for its 100,000 tonnes/y facility that will utilize biosuccinic acid to manufacture 30,000 tonnes of tetrahydrofuran (THF) and BDO. Meanwhile, Metabolix has
developed a new line of biobased polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) copolymers that are used as multifunctional modifiers for PVC. Hexpol TPE also developed a new collection of TPE compounds derived from renewable resources, while Elix Polymers unveiled a natural fibrereinforced ABS. Other developments across various segments of the bioplastics market worldwide are discussed. Original Source: Plastics and Rubber Asia, Nov-Dec 2015, 30 (218), 8-10 (Website: http:// www.plasticsandrubberasia.com) © Plastics & Rubber Asia Ltd 2015.
Poland to be the venue for EU’s first coal-to-chemical plant Grupa Azoty, the largest chemicals company in Poland, has unveiled its plans of constructing the first gasification facility in the European Union. The facility will process 1 M tonnes/y of black coal from local mines into chemical feedstocks as syngas and ammonia. The company will invest Zloty 2.4 bn ($646 M) in the project. The feasibility project for the facility is expected to be complete by end-2015. Original Source: TCE (formerly The Chemical Engineer), Nov 2015, (893), 16 (Website: http://www.tcetoday.com) © Institution of Chemical Engineers 2015.
Luxi to use Honeywell UOP’s technology for methanol-to-olefins plant in China Luxi Chemical Group has chosen Honeywell UOP's Advanced Methanolto-Olefins (MTO) technology to convert coal into olefins in China. The MTO process will convert methanol derived from gasified coal into 293,000 tonnes/y of ethylene and propylene at Luxi's plant in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, China. The technology combines the UOP/Hydro MTO process and the Total/ UOP Olefin Cracking process to "significantly increase yields and feedstock efficiency''. Original Source: PetroChemical News, 7 Dec 2015, 53 (46), 1 (Website: http://www. petrochemical-news.com) © William F. Bland Co.ANB2015.
A transformative project: Total’s La Mede refinery conversion French oil firm Total SA announced plans to convert its 150,000-barrel/d oil refinery in La Mede, France, to a facility that generates around 170,000 M gal/y (500,000 tonnes/y) of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). This transformation
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NEW PLANTS Linde opens syngas dry reforming pilot plant Linde has inaugurated a pilot facility in Germany demonstrating a new dry reforming process that can help companies utilize carbon dioxide in the production of chemicals and fuels. Original Source: TCE (formerly The Chemical Engineer), Nov 2015, (893), 19 (Website: http://www.tcetoday.com) © Institution of Chemical Engineers 2015.
Bank funds China mercury removal The Asian Development Bank will finance the discontinuance of mercury use as catalyst in the production of polyvinyl chloride in China. The bank will be lending $100 M to Chinese local chemical producers. The funding is supplemented with a $81 M loan from China Construction Bank, which will be used to create a mercury-free process at Dezhou Shihua Chemical in Shandong, China. Original Source: Chemical and Engineering News, 9 Nov 2015, 93 (44), 16 (Website: http://cen.acs.org/index.html) © American Chemical Society 2015.
Fast-to-market technology from Honeywell UOP helping meet growing fuel and petrochemical demand in China On 18 Nov 2015, UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that Shandong Luqing Petrochemical Co has January 2016
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C ATA LY S T S
started up a new production unit in just 20 months, leveraging Honeywell UOP technology and a pre-engineered, fastto-market design. Located in Shandong Province on China's East Coast, the new unit will use Honeywell UOP's C4 Oleflex process to produce 170,000 tonnes/y of isobutylene, a key ingredient for making high-octane fuel and synthetic rubber used in tyres, healthcare supplies and other consumer products. In addition to licensing, UOP provided the engineering design, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment, staff training and technical service for the project. The C4 Oleflex process uses catalytic dehydrogenation to convert isobutane to isobutylene. The technology consistently delivers superior performance due to its high reliability, low energy usage, high isobutylene yields, and a fully recyclable platinum alumina-based catalyst system using proven continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR) technology. In 2014, Hebei Xinxinyuan Energy Co Ltd became the eighth producer in China to license the C4 Oleflex process. The unit is expected to start up in late-2015. In addition to the C4 Oleflex process, UOP also licenses C3 Oleflex technology, a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) process that converts propane to propylene. Since the technology was commercialized in 1990, UOP has licensed more than 40 Oleflex units worldwide, including propane (C3), butane (C4) and mixed C3/C4 service. Original Source: Honeywell 18 Nov 2015, (Website: http://honeywell.com/) © Honeywell International Inc 2015.
Biobased materials are focus of improvements The nascent bioplastics market is rapidly increasing at an estimated growth of 20%/y on heightened drive for innovative developments and sustainability initiatives. Corbion Purac is seeking for partners to accelerate the commercialization of its newly designed PLA bioplastic resin derived from second generation feedstocks. Partners BioAmber and Mitsui Chemicals have made first biosuccinic acid shipments after the recent launch of its $141.5 M, 30,000 tonnes/y facility in Sarnia, Canada. The plant is expected to gradually reach 100% capacity in 2017. BioAmber has also licensed the technology of Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies (JM Davy) for its 100,000 tonnes/y facility that will utilize biosuccinic acid to manufacture 30,000 tonnes of tetrahydrofuran (THF) and BDO. Meanwhile, Metabolix has
developed a new line of biobased polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) copolymers that are used as multifunctional modifiers for PVC. Hexpol TPE also developed a new collection of TPE compounds derived from renewable resources, while Elix Polymers unveiled a natural fibrereinforced ABS. Other developments across various segments of the bioplastics market worldwide are discussed. Original Source: Plastics and Rubber Asia, Nov-Dec 2015, 30 (218), 8-10 (Website: http:// www.plasticsandrubberasia.com) © Plastics & Rubber Asia Ltd 2015.
Poland to be the venue for EU’s first coal-to-chemical plant Grupa Azoty, the largest chemicals company in Poland, has unveiled its plans of constructing the first gasification facility in the European Union. The facility will process 1 M tonnes/y of black coal from local mines into chemical feedstocks as syngas and ammonia. The company will invest Zloty 2.4 bn ($646 M) in the project. The feasibility project for the facility is expected to be complete by end-2015. Original Source: TCE (formerly The Chemical Engineer), Nov 2015, (893), 16 (Website: http://www.tcetoday.com) © Institution of Chemical Engineers 2015.
Luxi to use Honeywell UOP’s technology for methanol-to-olefins plant in China Luxi Chemical Group has chosen Honeywell UOP's Advanced Methanolto-Olefins (MTO) technology to convert coal into olefins in China. The MTO process will convert methanol derived from gasified coal into 293,000 tonnes/y of ethylene and propylene at Luxi's plant in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, China. The technology combines the UOP/Hydro MTO process and the Total/ UOP Olefin Cracking process to "significantly increase yields and feedstock efficiency''. Original Source: PetroChemical News, 7 Dec 2015, 53 (46), 1 (Website: http://www. petrochemical-news.com) © William F. Bland Co.ANB2015.
A transformative project: Total’s La Mede refinery conversion French oil firm Total SA announced plans to convert its 150,000-barrel/d oil refinery in La Mede, France, to a facility that generates around 170,000 M gal/y (500,000 tonnes/y) of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). This transformation
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