BASF local production

Together with China Petroleum Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) in a 50-50 partnership, BASF planned to build its first Verbund project in East Asia - an integrated petrochemical site (IPS) on 220 hectares of land. The core of the project was an ethylene cracker with a capacity of 600,000 tons per year. Nine new plants downstream would be supplied by the cracker, producing 1.7 million metric tons of chemical products for local consumption, including ethylene, aromatics, poly-ethylenes, ethylene oxide and ethylene glycols, acrylic acid, acrylates, oxo alcohols, formic acid, propionic acid, methylamine, and dimethylformamide. 

The naphtha produced by the feedstock process is treated in a steam cracker, and the monomers (e.g. ethylene, propylene, butadiene) are recovered. These raw materials are then used for the production of virgin plastic materials. High-boiUng oils can be processed into synthesis gas or conversion coke and then be transferred for further use. All these products have outlets in the local BASF production plants. 

Finally, BASF have also developed a submerged flame autothermal cracking process for crude oil. Partial combustion raises the temperature locally, to the point at which cracking to both ethylene and acetylene occur. A typical off-gas composition comprises approximately Imol acetylene, M5mol ethylene, 7-5 mol carbon monoxide and 4 5 mol hydrogen, with minor amounts of C3 and higher products. 

The BASF refinishing system seems to offer quality, energy efficiency, economy, and speed for the small businessman operating a local body shop, while respecting the health and safety of the workers in this establishment and the environment in which these products are manufactured and used. The lower VOCs and almost zero-waste generated in production of this suite of products makes the BASF facility a less attractive target for those seeking to cause accidents with catastrophic consequences. 

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