PKN Orlen lets contract for Plock refinery
PKN Orlen SA has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC to provide process technology designed to increase production of ethylene and aromatics, as well as improve flexibility of gasoline production, at its 327,300-b/d integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Plock, Poland.
As part of the project, which is currently in the basic engineering stage, Honeywell UOP will license its proprietary MaxEne process, which separates full-range naphtha into a stream of normal paraffins ideal for steam crackers because they produce high yields of light olefins, and a second stream of isoparaffins, naphthenes, and aromatics ideal for catalytic reforming units because they produce high yields of aromatics.
Specifically, UOP MaxEne technology is designed to improve molecule management and increase the production of light olefins by as much as 30% and production of aromatics by as much as 12%.
PKN Orlen will be the first refining and petrochemicals company in Europe to use the Honeywell UOP MaxEne technology.
Honeywell UOP disclosed neither a value of the contract nor a timeframe for the project’s implementation.
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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.
