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Study on SCR catalyst poisoning and its relevant preventive measures
FOCUS market for PEF. More than 97% of packaging in the country is recycled.
Original Source: Plastics Today News, 15 Dec 2015, (Website: http://www.plasticstoday.com) © UBM Canon 2015.
Kola MMC put into operation the first in Russia industrial production of commodity cobalt Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company (subsidiary of MMC Norilsk Nickel) has produced the first electrolytic cobalt as part of in the implementation of strategic cobalt production investment project. Thus, Kola MMC commissioned the only Russian industrial production of high-grade electrolytic cobalt, high-quality and globally competitive product. According to estimates, capital investment (and investments in the project amounting to more than Roubles 2 bn) should pay off within the short term due to additional profits earned by reducing operating costs and adding value to marketable products, which can be used in the open sector (batteries, catalysts, magnets, etc) and in aerospace and defence industry.
Original Source: Norilsk Nickel, 16 Dec 2015, (Website: http://www.nornik.ru/en) © Norilsk Nickel 2015.
Study on SCR catalyst poisoning and its relevant preventive measures Researchers from Zhejiang Hailiang Ecol Mater Co Ltd have discussed some effective measures to prevent various poisoning mechanisms of SCR catalysts, which include alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, heavy metal, halogen, phosphorus, water and SO3.
Original Source: Xiandai Huagong/Modern Chemical Industry, Jun 2015, 35 (6), 22-25 (Website: http://www.xdhg.com.cn) © China National Chemical Information Center 2015.
NEW PLANTS Albemarle’s AlkyStar catalyst successfully employed in the world’s first solid acid alkylation unit in Shandong, China, facility On 16 Dec 2015, Albemarle Corporation announced that its zeolite-based AlkyStar catalyst successfully produced high-quality alkylate after start-up of the world's first solid acid catalyst alkylation unit at the Shandong, China, plant of Zibo Haiyi Fine Chemical Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Shandong Wonfull Petrochemical Group Co Ltd. The unit uses the breakthrough AlkyClean process technology jointly developed by Albemarle Corporation, CB&I and Neste Oil. Start-up of
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the unit, which has a capacity of 2700 barrels/ stream day of alkylate production, was on 18 Aug 2015. Albemarle's AlkyStar catalyst, together with CB&I's novel reactor scheme, produces high-quality alkylate product without the use of liquid acid catalysts in the alkylate manufacturing process. Not only is AlkyClean technology inherently safer when compared to technologies employing liquid acids, there are also environmental benefits due to the reduction of waste streams such as spent acids and acid-soluble oils. Albemarle's AlkyStar catalyst, for use exclusively with the AlkyClean alkylation process, is based on an advanced new zeolite concept developed by Albemarle's R&D and is optimized to further improve the economics of the AlkyClean technology.
Original Source: Albemarle, 16 Dec 2015, (Website: http://www.albemarle.com/) © Albemarle Corporation 2015.
Green Biologics to open first biobutanol unit in US Green Biologics has announced that it has begun construction of an n-butanol and acetone unit which uses 100% biosourced materials at Little Falls, MN. This is being installed on an existing site, known under the name Central MN Ethanol Cooperative, which was acquired by Green Biologics and renamed Central MN Renewables. The facility will use technology developed by Green Biologics which combines a fermentation process using Clostridium with chemical catalysis. Production is scheduled to begin in 2016. Green Biologics has raised $76 M which is made up of $42 M from a funding round led by Swire Pacific Limited and Sofinnova Partners and $34 M from debt financing led by Tennenbaum Capital Partners.
Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 7 Dec 2015, (741), (Website: http://www.industrie. com/chimie) © ETAI Information 2015.
Dow announces start-up of new Texas, US, propylene production facility On 18 Dec 2015, Dow Chemical Company announced its new world-scale propane dehydrogenation unit (PDH) located at the company's Oyster Creek site in Freeport, TX, US, has begun commercial operations. The start-up of this unit is the most recent milestone in Dow's comprehensive plan to further integrate its US operations with costadvantaged feedstocks from increasing supplies of US shale gas and create long-term, competitive advantage for Dow's Performance Materials, Consumer and Infrastructure Solutions businesses. Capacity for the new propylene production facility is 750,000 tonnes/ y, making it the largest on demand propylene facility of its kind, and the largest and most advanced Honeywell UOP Oleflex unit ever built.
Original Source: Dow, 18 Dec 2015, (Website: http://www.dow.com) © The Dow Chemical Company 2015.
LUXI selects Honeywell’s technology to produce ethylene and propylene from coal Honeywell announced that LUXI Chemical Group Co Ltd has selected its process technology and automation controls to convert coal to key ingredients used to make plastics. LUXI will use Honeywell UOP's advanced methanol-to-olefins (MTO) process to convert methanol derived from gasified coal into 293,000 tonnes/y of ethylene and propylene at its facility in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, China. The operations will be managed by a suite of automation and control technologies from Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS). Honeywell UOP's advanced MTO process combines the UOP/Hydro MTO process and the Total/UOP olefin cracking process to significantly increase yields and feedstock efficiency. The process converts methanol from coal and natural gas into ethylene and propylene. At the heart of the technology are UOP's proprietary catalysts, which make it possible to efficiently adjust the ratio of propylene and ethylene produced, so operators can most effectively meet demand for those products. In addition, the advanced MTO process offers the lowest operating cost, quick and efficient start-up, and operational reliability.
Original Source: Honeywell, 2015. Found on SpecialChem Plastics and Elastomers Formulation, 25 Dec 2015, (Website: http:// www.specialchem4polymers.com) © Honeywell, 2015.
News in brief: BASF and Sinopec inaugurate China plant China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) and BASF, through their equallyheld joint venture BASF MPCC Company Limited (BMC), have launched a 180,000 tonnes/y isononanol facility at the Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone in Maoming, China. Original Source: PPCJ, Polymers, Paint, Colour Journal, http://www. polymerspaintcolourjournal.com/, Copyright dmg events (MEA) Ltd 2015.
Original Source: PPCJ, Polymers, Paint, Colour Journal, Nov 2015, 205 (4614), 7 (Website: http://www.polymerspaintcolourjournal.com/) © dmg events (MEA) Ltd 2015.
Hengli selects CB&I’s Catofin technology for new petrochemical project in Dalian Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery has awarded a contract to CB&I to provide its Catofin technology for the production of propylene and isobutylene in Dalian, China.
February 2016
Original Source: Plastics Today News, 15 Dec 2015, (Website: http://www.plasticstoday.com) © UBM Canon 2015.
Kola MMC put into operation the first in Russia industrial production of commodity cobalt Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company (subsidiary of MMC Norilsk Nickel) has produced the first electrolytic cobalt as part of in the implementation of strategic cobalt production investment project. Thus, Kola MMC commissioned the only Russian industrial production of high-grade electrolytic cobalt, high-quality and globally competitive product. According to estimates, capital investment (and investments in the project amounting to more than Roubles 2 bn) should pay off within the short term due to additional profits earned by reducing operating costs and adding value to marketable products, which can be used in the open sector (batteries, catalysts, magnets, etc) and in aerospace and defence industry.
Original Source: Norilsk Nickel, 16 Dec 2015, (Website: http://www.nornik.ru/en) © Norilsk Nickel 2015.
Study on SCR catalyst poisoning and its relevant preventive measures Researchers from Zhejiang Hailiang Ecol Mater Co Ltd have discussed some effective measures to prevent various poisoning mechanisms of SCR catalysts, which include alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, heavy metal, halogen, phosphorus, water and SO3.
Original Source: Xiandai Huagong/Modern Chemical Industry, Jun 2015, 35 (6), 22-25 (Website: http://www.xdhg.com.cn) © China National Chemical Information Center 2015.
NEW PLANTS Albemarle’s AlkyStar catalyst successfully employed in the world’s first solid acid alkylation unit in Shandong, China, facility On 16 Dec 2015, Albemarle Corporation announced that its zeolite-based AlkyStar catalyst successfully produced high-quality alkylate after start-up of the world's first solid acid catalyst alkylation unit at the Shandong, China, plant of Zibo Haiyi Fine Chemical Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Shandong Wonfull Petrochemical Group Co Ltd. The unit uses the breakthrough AlkyClean process technology jointly developed by Albemarle Corporation, CB&I and Neste Oil. Start-up of
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C ATA LY S T S
the unit, which has a capacity of 2700 barrels/ stream day of alkylate production, was on 18 Aug 2015. Albemarle's AlkyStar catalyst, together with CB&I's novel reactor scheme, produces high-quality alkylate product without the use of liquid acid catalysts in the alkylate manufacturing process. Not only is AlkyClean technology inherently safer when compared to technologies employing liquid acids, there are also environmental benefits due to the reduction of waste streams such as spent acids and acid-soluble oils. Albemarle's AlkyStar catalyst, for use exclusively with the AlkyClean alkylation process, is based on an advanced new zeolite concept developed by Albemarle's R&D and is optimized to further improve the economics of the AlkyClean technology.
Original Source: Albemarle, 16 Dec 2015, (Website: http://www.albemarle.com/) © Albemarle Corporation 2015.
Green Biologics to open first biobutanol unit in US Green Biologics has announced that it has begun construction of an n-butanol and acetone unit which uses 100% biosourced materials at Little Falls, MN. This is being installed on an existing site, known under the name Central MN Ethanol Cooperative, which was acquired by Green Biologics and renamed Central MN Renewables. The facility will use technology developed by Green Biologics which combines a fermentation process using Clostridium with chemical catalysis. Production is scheduled to begin in 2016. Green Biologics has raised $76 M which is made up of $42 M from a funding round led by Swire Pacific Limited and Sofinnova Partners and $34 M from debt financing led by Tennenbaum Capital Partners.
Original Source: Chimie Pharma Hebdo, 7 Dec 2015, (741), (Website: http://www.industrie. com/chimie) © ETAI Information 2015.
Dow announces start-up of new Texas, US, propylene production facility On 18 Dec 2015, Dow Chemical Company announced its new world-scale propane dehydrogenation unit (PDH) located at the company's Oyster Creek site in Freeport, TX, US, has begun commercial operations. The start-up of this unit is the most recent milestone in Dow's comprehensive plan to further integrate its US operations with costadvantaged feedstocks from increasing supplies of US shale gas and create long-term, competitive advantage for Dow's Performance Materials, Consumer and Infrastructure Solutions businesses. Capacity for the new propylene production facility is 750,000 tonnes/ y, making it the largest on demand propylene facility of its kind, and the largest and most advanced Honeywell UOP Oleflex unit ever built.
Original Source: Dow, 18 Dec 2015, (Website: http://www.dow.com) © The Dow Chemical Company 2015.
LUXI selects Honeywell’s technology to produce ethylene and propylene from coal Honeywell announced that LUXI Chemical Group Co Ltd has selected its process technology and automation controls to convert coal to key ingredients used to make plastics. LUXI will use Honeywell UOP's advanced methanol-to-olefins (MTO) process to convert methanol derived from gasified coal into 293,000 tonnes/y of ethylene and propylene at its facility in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, China. The operations will be managed by a suite of automation and control technologies from Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS). Honeywell UOP's advanced MTO process combines the UOP/Hydro MTO process and the Total/UOP olefin cracking process to significantly increase yields and feedstock efficiency. The process converts methanol from coal and natural gas into ethylene and propylene. At the heart of the technology are UOP's proprietary catalysts, which make it possible to efficiently adjust the ratio of propylene and ethylene produced, so operators can most effectively meet demand for those products. In addition, the advanced MTO process offers the lowest operating cost, quick and efficient start-up, and operational reliability.
Original Source: Honeywell, 2015. Found on SpecialChem Plastics and Elastomers Formulation, 25 Dec 2015, (Website: http:// www.specialchem4polymers.com) © Honeywell, 2015.
News in brief: BASF and Sinopec inaugurate China plant China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) and BASF, through their equallyheld joint venture BASF MPCC Company Limited (BMC), have launched a 180,000 tonnes/y isononanol facility at the Maoming Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone in Maoming, China. Original Source: PPCJ, Polymers, Paint, Colour Journal, http://www. polymerspaintcolourjournal.com/, Copyright dmg events (MEA) Ltd 2015.
Original Source: PPCJ, Polymers, Paint, Colour Journal, Nov 2015, 205 (4614), 7 (Website: http://www.polymerspaintcolourjournal.com/) © dmg events (MEA) Ltd 2015.
Hengli selects CB&I’s Catofin technology for new petrochemical project in Dalian Hengli Petrochemical (Dalian) Refinery has awarded a contract to CB&I to provide its Catofin technology for the production of propylene and isobutylene in Dalian, China.
February 2016