Integrated petrochemical site

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. 

Bulgaria. The Bulgarian chemical industry is dominated by two petrochemical companies, Neftochim and Polinari. Neftochim s petrochemical site is integrated with its refinery on the Black Sea. The location of the facilities is well suited for import/export activities, but the petrochemical industry has suffered from limited feedstock supply, which is caused by the lack of financial resources [13]. 

The second experiment has been conducted not far from the previous one, on a petrochemical site (Naphtachimie, Lavera), integrating one of the largest cracking unit of... 

As indicated in Fignre 4.11, the biorefmery has a deficit of LP steam of approximately 78 MW. This can be an important aspect for integration of this process with other petrochemical sites with an excess of LP steam as it can be utilised in the biorefmery and thereby improve EE. Moreover, there are hot and cold utility savings if ethylene is directly delivered to the chemical cluster. These savings are not considered in this study. 

A major current refinery-petrochemical project is under construction for Saudi Aramco-Sumitomo Chemical at their Rabigh, KSA site. In conjunction with our JGC partner we have linked the upstream refinery expansion to a combined mega-DCC unit and mega-ethane steam cracker. Corresponding production rates are 1500 kta ethylene/950 kta propylene. The corresponding integrated layout is shown below in Figure 8.2. 

A project of this type achieves major economic advantages. Base petrochemical feedstocks are hydrotreated VGO and ethane. Both are low cost at this site. The combined DCC and ethylene unit reduces ISBL recovery cost significantly due to integration and recycle feedstock access. 

From an economic perspective, it is important for bioprocesses to be integrated into existing organic chemical infrastructure. Typical production sites for bulk chemicals manufacture, such as those of the petrochemical industry, are unlikely to provide all of the requirements of industrial microbiological processes. The requirements of industrial microbiological processes include ... 

In the case of commodities, as fuels, plastics or fertilisers, the raw materials are intermediate chemicals produced fi om more basic raw materials, as oil, natural gas or minerals. For example, the production of polyolefin is integrated on a petrochemical platform with refining and other basic chemicals. The combination of several processes on a large industrial site is a typical feature of chemical industry that determines in large extent the profitability of a particular plant. 

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