(Honeywell) -- UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that Fujian Meide Petrochemical Co. Ltd. selected it to provide key technology to help meet the growing Chinese demand for propylene, a petrochemical used in plastics production.
The new propane dehydrogenation unit at the facility will use UOP's C3 Oleflex technology to produce propylene, a material used in the production of materials such as films and packaging. UOP will provide engineering design, technology licensing, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment, staff training and technical service for the project at Fujian Meide's facility in Fujian City, Fujian Province, China. The unit, expected to start up in 2014, will produce 660 KTa of propylene. It will be the largest propane dehydrogenation unit in the world to date.