UOP LLC has been selected by PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of PetroChina Co. Ltd., to supply technology, basic engineering services, and equipment for a new integrated refining and petrochemicals complex to be installed at its facility near Chengdu, in Sichuan Province. The new plant will produce both fuels and petrochemicals, including 600,000tns/yr of paraxylene using the UOP Parex process. The new plant also will produce more than 350,000tns/yr of benzene. Feedstock to the aromatics complex will in part be provided by a new UOP Unicracking process unit that will process 2.2 million tns/yr of heavy gas oil from crude oil and convert it to more usable products such as diesel, kerosene, and naphtha. The paraxylene complex will also include a UOP CCR Platforming process unit to convert naphtha to aromatics and hydrogen, a UOP Isomar process unit to convert other xylenes to paraxylene, and a UOP Tatoray process unit to increase the yield of paraxylene and benzene.
