Ethylene oxide Economic data

Ethylene glycol production by hydration of ethylene oxide. Economic data (France conditions, mkt-1986)... 

Table 7.1 summarizes the economic data concerning processes for manufacturing ethylene oxide employing oxygen and air. 

The economic data available on the production of ethylene glycol by the hydration of ethylene oxide are listed in Table 7.7. 

Table S. 1 gives economic data on the production of acetaldehyde by acetylene hydration and liquid phase oxidation of ethylene according to the Wacker-Hoechst (single-step and two-step) technologies.

Propylene demand will grow to the 11-billion lb level by 1973. Propylene from either heavier ethylene feed stocks or European imports will not alleviate the shortage completely. On the other handy it is not expected that price will exceed 3.1 cents/lb. In spite of decreasing propylene availability, refiners will consider release of alkylate stocks at this level. Development of an economic process for direct propylene production is in the future. Dehydrogenation or iodinative partial oxidation processes for propylene from propane are neither commercially proved nor have they been demonstrated to have economic promise. Dehydrogenation in the presence of sulfur may bypass propane dehydrogenation equilibrium limits, and preliminary experimental data are presented. 

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