DES PLAINES, Ill., May 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE:
HON) announced today that IRPC PLC will use a range of advanced
process technologies from Honeywell UOP for a new aromatics complex
in Thailand's Rayong Province.
As part of the project, Honeywell UOP will provide licensing,
design, key equipment and state-of-the-art catalysts and
adsorbents. When completed in 2022, the complex will produce 1.2
million metric tons per year of paraxylene used to make plastic
resins, films and fibers. It also will increase its benzene
production capacity from 114,000 to 495,000 tons per year. Benzene
is a fuel additive and ingredient in plastics, lubricants, rubber,
dyes and detergents.
"This complex will enable IRPC to significantly convert its
available intermediate feedstocks to higher value aromatics
products such as paraxylene and benzene," said John Gugel, vice president and general manager,
Process Technology and Equipment, at Honeywell UOP. "This is the
latest in a series of aromatics projects using advanced UOP
technologies that have low capital and operating expense."
The project will include a Honeywell UOP CCR Platforming™ unit,
which converts naphtha into high-octane gasoline and aromatics, and
an LD Parex™ unit, which recovers high-purity paraxylene from mixed
xylenes and uses a new, more energy efficient light desorbent. The
complex also will include Honeywell UOP Sulfolane™ technology to
extract aromatics from the feed; Isomar™ technology to convert
xylene isomers into more valuable paraxylene; and Tatoray™
technology, which converts toluene and C9 aromatics into
mixed xylenes and high-purity benzene, and that more than doubles
the yield of paraxylene from the naphtha feedstock.
Honeywell UOP is the world's leading licensor of process
technology for the production of aromatics. As of last year, UOP
licensed more than 100 complexes and more than 700 individual
process units for the production of aromatics, including more than
300 CCR Platforming process units and 159 Sulfolane units, 81
Isomar units, 59 Tatoray units, and 101 Parex units worldwide.
IRPC Public Company Limited is a publicly traded
petroleum and petrochemical company, and a subsidiary
of PTT Group. IRPC is based in Mueang Rayong
District, Rayong Province, Thailand, and operates the
first fully integrated petrochemical complex in Southeast Asia.
Honeywell UOP (www.uop.com) is a leading international supplier
and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents,
equipment, and consulting services to the petroleum refining,
petrochemical, and gas processing industries. Honeywell UOP is part
of Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies strategic
business group, which also includes Honeywell Process Solutions
(www.honeywellprocess.com), a pioneer in automation control,
instrumentation and services for the oil and gas, refining,
petrochemical, chemical and other industries.
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software-industrial company that delivers industry specific
solutions that include aerospace and automotive products and
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and performance materials globally. Our technologies help
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