MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shandong Luqing Petrochemical has reached full production capacity of isobutylene at "China's first" standalone Honeywell UOP C4 Oleflex unit, located in Shandong Province, China, reported Apic-online.
Performance of the 170,000-t/y isobutylene plant, which started up late last year, has been accepted by Shandong Luqing, Honeywell noted. The unit will support the growing demand for petrochemicals and fuels in China.
"While Shandong Luqing is the first Chinese operator of a standalone Honeywell UOP C4 Oleflex process, the technology now has seven customers in the country with three of them anticipated to start up by the end of 2016," Honeywell noted.
We remind that, as MRC wrote previously, in August 2015, Shandong Chambroad Holding Co., Ltd. became the first company in China to commission a combined C3/C4 dehydrogenation unit to meet growing demand in Asia for plastics, high-octane gasoline and synthetic rubber.
The new unit, which is the first of three in China, uses Honeywell UOP's C3/C4 Oleflex process technology to produce propylene, a building block for making plastics, packaging and synthetic fiber, and isobutylene, a component used for high-octane gasoline and synthetic rubber. The unit, which is only the second of its kind in the world, successfully started up in May 2015 and all production targets have been accepted. Two other Chinese producers have also licensed the technology for start up in 2017. Located in Binzhou City, Shandong Province, the new unit will produce 116,000 metric tpa of propylene and 104,000 metric tpa of isobutylene.
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