Chemical SC scheme with highlighted production plants

Basically, two major groups of chemicals can be distinguished inorganic and organic chemicals. The latter subsumes all chemicals containing at least one bond of a hydrogen and carbon atom. The former group encompasses all chemicals without such a bond.  

This work primarily focuses on organic chemicals which are produced by the (basic) chemical industry. For the industrial production of organic chemicals, three basic natural resources are available natural gas, coal, and crude oil. Of these three materials crude oil 

Kirschstein, Integrated Supply Chain Planning in Chemical Industry, Produktion und Logistik, DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-08433-2 2, SpringerFachmedien Wiesbaden 2015 

raw substance splitting raw materials are split into (short-chained) basic chemicals 

re-composition basic chemicals are re-composed into intermediate chemicals 

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Figure 2.1 Chemical SC scheme with highlighted production plants...

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