BP will scale up its propane-acrylonitrile process
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BP Chemicals Inc. of Cleveland, OH, has appropriated $10 million to construct a demonstration facility in Green Lake, TX, to house its newly developed 30% cost-effective proprietary propane-to-acrylonitrile process technology. The new process is an amoxidation method that utilizes a proprietary catalyst and a fluidized bed where propane will be placed and made to react with air and ammonia. According to Michael Desmond, the firmEs technology vice president, the demonstration plant will be consolidated with the companyEs three other Green Lake propylene-based fluid-bed reactor plants.
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Invests $10 mil to build a demo facility in Green Lake, TX, to house its newly developed propane-to-acrylonitrile process tech
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0009-2460
Year: 1998
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Dow expands its options for producing propylene oxide
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JSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNC) of Nizhnekamsk, Russia, has awarded an exclusive global license for use of its propylene oxide styrene monomer (POSM) process to Dow Chemical Co. of Midland, MI. The POSM process, which is one of two major technologies used to produce propylene oxide (PO), will be used by Dow in its new 250,0000 mt/yr PO plant in Tianjin, China. The new PO plant is scheduled to begin production by about 2004. With the license, Dow will have two options of processes to use in its production of PO.
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Receives an exclusive global license from JSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim for use of its propylene oxide styrene monomer process
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0009-2460
Year: 1998
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New catalysis for polyol production
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Lyondell Chemical Co is one of the recipients of the 1999 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Awards. The Houston, TX-based chemical company is recognized for developing a more cost-effective and efficient system of manufacturing polyether polyols. Lyondell's process employs a double-metal-cyanide catalyst that features low catalysts cost, ease of catalyst removal and ability to use a low-molecular-weight starter.
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0009-2460
Year: 1999
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