MOSCOW (MRC) -- Hengli Petrochemical Company (Hengli), based in Dalian, China, has awarded DuPont a contract to supply the alkylation and spent acid regeneration (SAR) technologies for the new, grassroots refinery in the Changxing Island Harbor Industrial Zone, according to Plastemart.
The contract includes the license and engineering design packages for the STRATCO alkylation and MECS SAR units. Installation of the new units at Hengli is currently planned for 2018 with start-up anticipated in 2019. The grassroots refinery complex, with the addition of STRATCO alkylation technology, will allow Hengli to produce a high quality alkylate product (used as a blending component in the gasoline pool) from a 100% isobutylene feed stream.
"DuPont is pleased to provide Hengli Petrochemical with our world-class sulfuric acid alkylation technology to improve the overall gasoline pool from the refinery," said Kevin Bockwinkel, global business manager for the STRATCO Alkylation Technology. "The unique feed stream (100% isobutylene) available from the Hengli Petrochemical facility marks the beginning of a new era for alkylation in the gasoline market as the butane-to-alkylate movement grows around the world."
As part of DuPont’s commitment to innovation, the alkylation unit at Hengli will utilize the patented XP2 technology in the STRATCO Contactor reactor. The XP2 technology is one of the latest Contactor reactor enhancements developed by DuPont to ensure the most effective and efficient use of the tube bundle heat transfer area, providing significant process benefits resulting in improved alkylate product quality.
As MRC wrote previously, in December 2015, Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co., two historic giants of U.S. industry, announced that they would join in an all-stock merger of equals that’s the first step in a plan to create three new highly-focused businesses. The deal, the largest ever in the chemicals industry, will create a USD130 billion company that combines products from both Dow and DuPont in the areas of agriculture, commodities chemicals and specialty chemicals to create the new businesses.
DuPont is an American chemical company that was founded in July, 1802. The company manufactures a wide range of chemical products, leading extensive innovative research in this field. The company is the inventor of many unique plastics and other materials, including neoprene, nylon, Teflon, Kevlar, Mylar, Tyvek, etc. DuPont was the developer and main producer of Freon used in the production of refrigeration equipment.
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