Chemical product pricing

Economic Aspects. Most fluoroborate solutions Hsted ia Table 5 are manufactured by Atotech USA, Inc., General Chemical, Chemtec/Harstan, C.P. Chemical Co., and Pideflty Chemical Products. Prices are shown ia Table 5. 

The supply and demand for mbidium compounds has grown steadily since the 1970s. In 1979 the U.S. demand was ca 1040 kg of contained mbidium (16), and total world demand was estimated at approximately twice that of the United States. Reserves of mbidium in North America are estimated at 2 X 10 kg the United States is - 100% import-reliant for mbidium, and Canada is the principal source of the raw material (16). The demand for mbidium metal is small compared to the demand for mbidium compounds. Table 2 fists approximate prices of mbidium metal and mbidium compounds. Primary producers of mbidium are Cabot Performance Chemicals (Boyerstown, Pennsylvania), MSA Research Corporation (Callery, Pennsylvania), and CM Chemical Products, Inc. (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey). Research quantities of mbidium in standard and specialized ampuls are available from Strem Chemicals, Inc. (Newburyport, Massachusetts). 

Economic Aspects. U.S. production of sodium metabisulfite is estimated to be well ia excess of 45,000 t, but statistics are confused by some commingling with sodium sulfite. The principal U.S. producers are Rhc ne-Poulenc and General Chemical. The price ia mid-1995 was 0.63/kg for anhydrous sodium bisulfite. 

The price of butanes and butylenes fluctuates seasonally depending on the demand for gasoline ia the United States. Siace much chemical-product usage is determiaed by price—performance basis, a shift to development of butylene-based technology may occur. Among the butylenes, demand for isobutylene is likely to iacrease (and so its price) as more derivatives such as methyl methacrylate and methacrylic acid are produced from isobutylene iastead of the coaveatioaal acetoae cyanohydria process. 

As will be evident from the above discussion many valuable chemicals can be made from renewable resources. In many cases current production methods fail to compete effectively with routes from fossil sources. With advances in biotechnology and increasing oil prices, renewable feedstocks will become more commercially attractive, especially for fine, speciality and pharmaceutical chemicals. If future bulk chemical production were to... 

The different classes of chemical products will have very different added value (the difference between the selling price of the product and the purchase cost of raw materials). Commodity chemicals tend to have low added value, whereas fine and specialty chemicals tend to have high added value. Commodity chemicals tend to be produced in large volumes with low added value, while fine and specialty chemicals tend to be produced in small volumes with high added value. 

The increasing volume of chemical production, insufficient capacity and high price of olefins stimulate the rising trend in the innovation of current processes. High attention has been devoted to the direct ammoxidation of propane to acrylonitrile. A number of mixed oxide catalysts were investigated in propane ammoxidation [1]. However, up to now no catalytic system achieved reaction parameters suitable for commercial application. Nowadays the attention in the field of activation and conversion of paraffins is turned to catalytic systems where atomically dispersed metal ions are responsible for the activity of the catalysts. Ones of appropriate candidates are Fe-zeolites. Very recently, an activity of Fe-silicalite in the ammoxidation of propane was reported [2, 3]. This catalytic system exhibited relatively low yield (maximally 10% for propane to acrylonitrile). Despite the low performance, Fe-silicalites are one of the few zeolitic systems, which reveal some catalytic activity in propane ammoxidation, and therefore, we believe that it has a potential to be improved. Up to this day, investigation of Fe-silicalite and Fe-MFI catalysts in the propane ammoxidation were only reported in the literature. In this study, we compare the catalytic activity of Fe-silicalite and Fe-MTW zeolites in direct ammoxidation of propane to acrylonitrile. 

As illustrated in fig. 27, products produced in a chemical production network are by default finished products, meaning they can be sold to customers instead of being used as intermediate products in the next production step. This principle leads to additional complexity since production demand for a product is composed of secondary demand caused by the subsequent production step as well as market demand or sales opportunities for this product. On the other hand, this also provides the opportunity to better utilize production assets by pushing excess production quantity to the market if the price is sufficiently attractive. 

The development of chemical products has been led by the industry. Not surprisingly, the language that is used has served to the necessities of the company and the market. That is why product classifications have been ambiguous and changing through time [26], For example, chemical products had been classified based on the prices and uses. 

This short compilation of the recent literature results convincingly demonstrates the usefulness of water-soluble supramolecular complexing agents in biphasic aqueous organometalHc catalysis. Due to their availability, cyclodextrins play a major role in this field. Thinking of the relatively low price of these chemicals (a few per kg in 1998 [2]) their use on a larger scale can also be envisaged in fine chemicals production. 

The economic objective in the model can either be represented as operating cost minimization or added-value maximization. In the case of added-value maximization, product prices are subtracted from the cost of feedstocks for each process. If PrCpet is the price of chemical cp, the added-value objective function can be represented as ... 

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