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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Honeywell announced
that Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co. has selected Honeywell UOP?s advanced
platforming and aromatics technologies for its 20,000-t/y integrated refining
and petrochemical complex in Longkou, Shandong Province, China, according to Apic-online.
The complex will
include a UOP naphtha Unionfining unit and CCR Platforming technology to convert
naphtha into high-octane gasoline and aromatics. It will also include a
UOP Olefin Removal Process, UOP Sulfolane technology for aromatics extraction,
Isomar isomerization technology and Tatoray technology for toluene
disproportionation.
Once complete, the complex will produce 3-million t/y
of mixed aromatics. Value of the contract and a schedule for the project
were not given.
UOP will provide a range of technology licenses,
engineering design, key equipment and state-of-the-art catalysts and adsorbents,
operator training, and technical services for start-up and continuing
operations.
The complex will also include two mixed feed ethylene
crackers, two polypropylene (PP) lines, and ethylbenzene and styrene
monomer plants.
As MRC reported earlier,
in November, 2020, Honeywell announced Zhenhua Petrochemical Co. Ltd will use
Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology for propane dehydrogenation to process 1
million metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene for a proposed plant in
Dongying City, Shandong Province, China.
Ethylene and propylene are
feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene
(PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 2,220,640 tonnes in 2020, up by 2%
year on year. Only shipments of low density polyethylene (LDPE) and high density
polyethylene (HDPE) increased. At the same time, polypropylene (PP) shipments to
the Russian market reached 1 240,000 tonnes in 2020 (calculated using the
formula: production, minus exports, plus imports, excluding producers'
inventories as of 1 January, 2020). Supply of exclusively PP random copolymer
increased. |
