EniChem project

EniChem project was based on the following ammoximation reaction... 

A three-year joint European project, RECAM, recommends that it should be possible to colleet more than 50% of carpet waste in Western Europe. High-grade materials such as PA and PP could be recovered for the manufacture of engineering plastics compounds and more than 8 million Gigajoules of energy could be reeovered from the remainder. At the heart of the proj ect are ehemieal recycling processes developed by both DSM and Enichem. 

EniChem set up a project aimed at the development of a nonphosgene synthesis of DMC for large volume usage as a result, a new industrial process was established, based on a liquid-phase methanol oxidative carbonylation in the presence of copper chlorides as catalysts. This catalytic system was highly effective in DMC production the reaction was carried out by feeding at the same time methanol, carbon monoxide, and oxygen to the suspension of the catalyst in a mixture of water, methanol, and DMC and recovering DMC by distillation after the catalyst separation. Besides, the process... 

Italy. The largest chemical company in Italy is Enichem, with annual sales of 6.6 billion in 1996. In the past, the Italian chemical industry has been subjected to strikes, high inflation, price controls, political instability, lackluster management, inefficient and obsolete plants, and a weak currency. The emergence of the euro may lend financial stability. Recently, there are indications that some stability has been achieved, with the result that the industry is moving forward. The Italian CPI had 15 new or expansion projects under construction in early 1999 [13]. 

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