24 May 2018
DETAILS
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that
IRPC PLC will use a range of advanced process technologies
from Honeywell UOP
for a new aromatics complex in Thailand’s Rayong Province.
As part of the project, Honeywell UOP will provide
licensing, design, key equipment
and state-of-the-art catalysts and adsorbents.
When completed in 2022, the complex will produce
1.2 million metric tons per year of paraxylene
used to make plastic resins, films and fibers.
It also will increase its
benzene production capacity
from 114,000 to 495,000 tons per year.
Benzene is a fuel additive and ingredient
in plastics, lubricants, rubber, dyes and detergents.
The project will include
a Honeywell UOP CCR Platforming™ unit,
which converts naphtha
into high-octane gasoline and aromatics, and
an LD Parex™ unit, which recovers
high-purity paraxylene from mixed xylenes
and uses a new, more energy efficient light desorbent.
The complex also will include
Honeywell UOP Sulfolane™ technology
to extract aromatics from the feed;
Isomar™ technology to convert xylene isomers
into more valuable paraxylene; and
Tatoray™ technology, which converts
toluene and C9 aromatics into mixed xylenes
and high-purity benzene, and
that more than doubles the yield of paraxylene
from the naphtha feedstock.
John Gugel,
Vice President and General Manager,
Process Technology and Equipment,
at Honeywell UOP.
“This complex will enable IRPC to significantly convert
its available intermediate feedstocks
to higher value aromatics products
such as paraxylene and benzene,”
“This is the latest in a series of aromatics projects
using advanced UOP technologies
that have low capital and operating expense.”
Contact:
John Simley
847-391-2278
john.simley@honeywell.com
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