(plastemart) -- Honeywell's UOP granted the third technology license for its breakthrough methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology to China's Shandong Yangmei Hengtong Chemicals.
The Chinese company will use Honeywell UOP's advanced MTO process to convert methanol from gasified coal into ethylene and propylene. The process combines the UOP/Hydro MTO process and the Total Petrochemicals/UOP olefin cracking process to convert methanol from gasified coal into over 295,000 tpa ethylene and propylene at its facility in Tancheng, Linyi City, China. In addition to technology licensing, Honeywell's UOP will provide basic engineering, catalysts, adsorbents, specialty equipment, technical services and training for the project, which is expected to start up in 2014.
"UOP's advanced MTO solution allows petrochemical producers in China such as Shandong to tap abundant and cheap coal resources, produce high yields of valuable petrochemicals, and reduce operating costs," said Pete Piotrowski, senior vice president and general manager of Honeywell's UOP process technology and equipment business unit. This technology will help Shandong meet growing demand in China for ethylene and propylene."
We remind that earlier this year China’s Jiutai Energy (Zhungeer) also licensed Honeywell’s UOP methanol technology. Jiutai will produce 600,000 tpa of ethylene and propylene at its facility in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Province, China, as MRC reported earlier. Besides, Honeywell plans to take part in the construction of the facility to produce light olefins in Uzbekistan. The unit in Bukharskaya region will produce 500,000 tonnes of methanol with its further processing into 190,000 tonnes of ethylene and propylene.
MRC