The Catalyst Review May 2017 - 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS
Honeywell Technology and
Controls Selected for Largest
Petrochemical Project in
China...

Semi-finalists for the International IQ-CHem Petrochemical
Startup Contest Announced...

The jury at the international IQ-CHem startup contest has selected its short-list of best
petrochemical projects. The 12 selected startups will now advance to the IQ-CHem
contest final, which will be held on 7 June during the Skolkovo 2017 Startup Village
Honeywell UOP has just announced that
conference. The finalists comprise teams from Belgium, Germany, Russia, the USA,
Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC) will
the Czech Republic and Switzerland. All the submitted applications are of a very high
use four of its Polybed™ pressure swing
quality, each displaying innovative approaches towards solving the specific problems
adsorption (PSA) units to supply highand challenges faced by the petrochemicals industry. "It's impossible for companies
purity hydrogen for its new integrated
in the petrochemicals industry to operate today without the continuous development
refining and petrochemical complex in
of technology. Yet this technological development is increasingly coming, not from the
Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province (China). The
corporations, but from small companies - start-ups - which focus their efforts on one
complex will use Honeywell Experion™
particular technological solution," said Dmitry Stepkin, Director of Corporate R&D at
distributed control systems from
SIBUR. The finalist teams will pitch their projects to the jury, who will then deliberate
Honeywell Process Solutions, and the
and determine the winner. The pitches will be evaluated by representatives from the
PSA units will be controlled by Honeywell
competition's partner companies, including Dr. Joost Waterloos, Head of Scouting
C300 controllers integrated with the
& Exploration Network Ventures & Business Development at The Dow Chemical
Experion system. Zhejiang Petrochemical
Company; Simone Arizzi, Technical and Innovation Director EMEA at DuPont; and
earlier awarded petrochemical process
Kurt Vanden Bussche, Director of Research and Development at UOP. In total, 251
technology licensing, engineering design
teams from 27 countries took part in the international IQ-CHem contest. The largest
and catalysts to Honeywell UOP. When
number of applications came from teams in Russia, India, Canada, the Netherlands
completed, the new plant will be the
and the United States. Fifty nine projects are presented at the nomination category
largest crude-to-chemicals complex in
"Modern equipment and technological solutions to increase operational efficiency in
China and one of the largest in the world,
chemical-technological processes"; 52 projects at the nomination category "Innovative
manufacturing petrochemicals to make
technologies and products for the production of basic monomers and the production
plastic resins, films and fibers, as well as
and application of special chemicals"; 34 projects are presented at the nomination
fuels. Source: Honeywell UOP, 5/10/2017. category "Innovative technologies and products in gas processing and transportation",
and 20 applied at the nomination category, "Innovative technologies and products in
Topsoe Technology Chosen for the production and application of new plastics and elastomers". Another 86 applications
focused on other project areas, including energy efficiency and environmental
Large Uzbek Gas-to-Liquids
protection. The finalists will win the opportunity to cooperate with the contest's
Project...
partners to bring their project into reality. These partners - SIBUR, Sinopec, The Dow
Chemical Company, DuPont, Solvay, 3M, AkzoNobel, BASF, LG Chem, Henkel, Linde,
Topsoe's synthesis gas technology has
been chosen for OLTIN YO'L GTL - a 38,000 Technip, and Honeywell UOP - are globally recognised industry leaders. Source: SIBUR,
barrels per day gas-to-liquids (GTL) energy 5/4/2017.
plant in Uzbekistan. Topsoe will deliver
Honeywell UOP Signs Agreement to Provide Technology and
proprietary equipment for two synthesis
gas trains, each including autothermal
Equipment for Expansion of Jordanian Refinery...
reformers (ATRs), waste heat boilers,
Honeywell UOP recently announced that it has signed an agreement with the Jordan
steam drums, CTS burners, refractory
Petroleum Refinery Company (JPRC) to facilitate a $1.6 billion expansion of its refinery
materials, and HTZR target tiles. OLTIN
in Zarqa, Jordan. This expansion will increase the capacity of the facility to 120,000
YO'L GTL will produce synthetic diesel, jet
barrels per day and will allow JPRC to upgrade the quality of its product to meet Euro
fuel, and naphtha based on local natural
V emissions specifications. As part of the project, which is the fourth such expansion of
gas. Topsoe's synthesis gas technology
the JPRC refinery, Honeywell UOP will provide manager licensor services, technology
is the first fundamental step of Sasol's
licensing, front-end engineering design consultancy services, and basic engineering
Slurry Phase Distillate Process™, which
design. It also will provide catalysts and process equipment, and training and startis the core process of the plant. Sasol
up services. Technologies provided by Honeywell UOP will include crude and vacuum
Technology has been appointed single
distillation units - designed by Houston-based Process Consulting Services, Inc. - for
point licensor, and Hyundai Engineering
distilling crude oil into various fractions. Honeywell UOP also will provide Unicracking™
Co. is the engineering, procurement
and hydrotreating units to create clean distillate, as well as CCR Platforming™, Penex™,
and construction (EPC) partner. Source:
MinAlk™, Merox™ and Selectfining™ units for producing cleaner-burning high-octane
Topsoe, 5/10/2017.
motor fuels, and a Polybed™ PSA unit for purifying hydrogen. The Jordan Petroleum
Refinery Company, Ltd. (JPRC) is the sole oil refining company of Jordan. Source:
Honeywell UOP, 5/8/2017.
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