Chinese operator lets contract for petrochemical complex upgrades
Dayuewan (Zhuhai) Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Grain Petrochemical Group, has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC to provide a range of proprietary technologies to upgrade heavy fuel oil into higher-value petrochemical products at its complex in the Gaolan Port Economic Zone in Guangdong Province, China.
As part of the contract, Honeywell UOP will deliver basic engineering and technology licensing, as well as technical and start-up services for the project, which includes a 1.4 million-tonnes/year Uniflex MC slurry hydrocracking unit to upgrade bottom-of-the-barrel fuel oil into light oil products that will be fed to a Unicracking unit to produce naphtha for a CCR Platforming unit, the service provider said.
The project also includes three Polybed pressure-swing adsorption (PSA) units to supply high-quality hydrogen for the Uniflex process. The PSA units are designed to generate 320,000 cu m/hr of hydroen.
When the project is completed, Dayuewan will be converting nearly all its vacuum residue to light oil products, representing one of the highest conversion rates in the world. The project also will adopt a range of advanced process technologies to recycle hydrogen and LPG.
Intended to enable Dayuewan to modernize its operations by transformation and upgrading, the combination of technologies will be designed as an integrated operating block to maximize product yields with lower capital and operating expense than standard configurations, said Henry Liu, vice-president and general manager of Honeywell UOP’s business in China.
Honeywell UOP did not disclose a value of the contract nor a timeframe for the project’s completion.
Since its establishment in December 2016, Dayuewan has been committed to the concept of green, energy-saving and high-efficiency technologies, establishing a modern petrochemical complex with advanced technologies, equipment and recyclable resources, and which integrates production, processing, storage, and terminals.
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Robert Brelsford | Downstream Editor
Robert Brelsford joined Oil & Gas Journal in October 2013 as downstream technology editor after 8 years as a crude oil price and news reporter on spot crude transactions at the US Gulf Coast, West Coast, Canadian, and Latin American markets. He holds a BA (2000) in English from Rice University and an MS (2003) in education and social policy from Northwestern University.
