MOSCOW (MRC) -- Taiwan’s state-owned CPC Corp is in plans to resume operations at its residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) unit following an unplanned outage, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the unit is expected to be brought on-stream on September 3, 2016. The unit was shut on August 16, 2016 owing to a technical glitch.
Located at Dalin in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the RFCC has a production capacity of 400,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, CPC Corp shut down a residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) for a maintenance on 31 March 2016. The unit was slated to remain shut for a period of around 60-70 days. Located in Taoyuan, Taiwan, the RFCC has a propylene production capacity of 100,000 mt/year.
CPC Corporation, Taiwan, is engaged in the exploration, production, refining, procurement, transportation, storage, and marketing of oil and gas. The company provides fuel oil, including automotive unleaded gasoline and diesel fuel, low-sulfur fuel oil, marine distillate fuels, marine residual fuels, and aviation fuel; petrochemicals, such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene, para-xylene, and ortho-xylene; liquefied petroleum gas products comprising liquefied petroleum gas, propane, butane, and a propane/butane mixture; lubricants, motor oil, industrial oil, grease, and marilube oil; SNC products, including petroleum ether, naphtha, toluene, xylene, crude octene, methyl alcohol, normal paraffin, viscosity-graded asphalt cement, and sulfur; and natural gas.
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