DES PLAINES, Ill., Feb. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE:
HON) announced today that Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC)
will use a range of process technology from Honeywell UOP, the
world's leading licensor of refining and petrochemical process
technology, for a new integrated refining and petrochemical complex
in Zhoushan, Zhejiang
Province.
Honeywell UOP will supply a wide range of technologies in the
form of license, design, key equipment, and state-of-the-art
catalysts and adsorbents, while Honeywell Process Solutions will
provide the process controls and automation systems.
The complex will be located in one of seven new large industrial
sites that are part of China's
current national economic development plan. When completed, it will
be the largest crude-to-chemicals complex in China and one of the largest in the world. The
complex will produce petrochemicals, including aromatics that are
used to make plastic resins, films and fibers that are the basis
for millions of products.
"This is the first phase of a completely new site that will
process 20 million tons per year of crude oil and produce 5 million
tons per year of aromatics when completed," said Mike Millard, vice president and general
manager, Process Technology and Equipment at Honeywell UOP. "It
will help China meet its goal of
self-sufficiency in paraxylene and serve as a major new source
of propylene, jet fuel and other products."
"The refining and petrochemical process units at this site will
be controlled by the Experion® Distributed Control
System, which is designed and configured especially for Honeywell
UOP processes," said Chen Yan, vice
president and general manager, Honeywell Process Solutions -
Greater China. "This integrates
all process control and safety systems and automation software
under a single architecture, providing ZPC with pre-engineered
solutions, faster project execution and an easy-to-use operator
interface."
The project includes a two-train LD Parex™ aromatics complex --
including the UOP Sulfolane™, Isomar™ and Tatoray™ processes -- for
the production of 4 million metric tons per year of paraxylene, a
primary ingredient in plastics.
The new plant also will include an RFCC complex, using Honeywell
UOP's RCD Unionfining™ and RFCC™ processes
to upgrade 5 million metric tons per year of residual oil into
fuels.
An Oleflex™ propane dehydrogenation unit will produce 600,000
metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene – another basic
component in the production of plastics, in addition to synthetic
rubber and gasoline additives.
The project also will include a Honeywell UOP Unicracking™
hydrocracker to convert vacuum gas oil into petrochemical
feedstocks, two CCR Platforming™ units
to produce aromatics and blend stocks for making high-octane fuels,
and a Unionfining naphtha hydrotreating unit to remove sulfur.
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 500 Unionfining units,
158 Sulfolane units, 80 Isomar units, 58 Tatoray units, 100 Parex
units and 50 Oleflex units worldwide.
Honeywell Process Solutions technologies and automation help
refine 40 million barrels of oil a day at about half of the world's
refineries. These technologies control and manage more than 50,000
oil and gas storage tanks, about 40 percent of the world's LNG
carrier fleet, and 94,000 miles of oil and gas pipelines, enough to
circle the world almost four times.
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.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 diversified
technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide
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