MOSCOW (MRC) -- ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions is making its Steam Active Reforming (STAR) process available to Formosa Plastics Corp (FPC) for a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) project in Texas, USA, according to Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The PDH plant is to be built at Formosa's existing petrochemical complex in Point Comfort.
The contract awarded to ThyssenKrupp includes licensing, basic engineering, detail engineering for the key equipment, delivery of the catalyst (STAR catalyst) and technical support during the entire project execution.
"Having already acquired several major fertilizer plant contracts for as a result of the shale gas boom in the US, we are confident we can now profit from forthcoming investments in propane dehydrogenation plants," said Hans-Theo Kuhr, CEO of the process technologies business unit at ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions.
The PDH plant in Point Comfort will have a capacity of 545,000 tpy of propylene and is part of the Point Comfort petrochemical complex expansion announced by FPC in February 2012.
As MRC reported earlier, in early August 2014, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued three final GHG Prevention of Significant Deterioration construction permits for the Formosa Plastics facility in Point Comfort, Texas.
Formosa is expanding its chemical complex, located near Victoria, and taking three actions with its turbines unit, olefins unit and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) unit.
According to the olefins GHG permit, a new ethane cracker and propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit will have a combined capacity of 1.75 million tpy of "high-purity ethylene product". Meanwhile, the LDPE unit will have a a capacity of 625,500 tpy and be able to produce resin at different grades.
Formosa Petrochemical is involved primarily in the business of refining crude oil, selling refined petroleum products and producing and selling olefins (including ethylene, propylene, butadiene and BTX) from its naphtha cracking operations. Formosa Petrochemical is also the largest olefins producer in Taiwan and its olefins products are mostly sold to companies within the Formosa Group. Among the company's chemical products are paraxylene (PX), phenyl ethylene, acetone and pure terephthalic acid (PTA). The company's plastic products include acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) resins, polystyrene (PS), polypropylene (PP) and panlite (PC).
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