04-05-2020
CNOOC Huizhou Petrochemical Company selects ParamaX technology from Axens
CNOOC Huizhou Petrochemical Company Limited (CHPCL) has selected Axens’ ParamaX® Technology Suite for its petrochemical complex expansion in Daya Bay, China.
The project aims at increasing CHPCL’s high-purity aromatics production capacity to 3,000,000 tons per year. The new aromatics complex will produce 1,500,000 tons per year of para-Xylene in a single train.
Axens offered its second generation of the energy-efficient ParamaX® Suite of technologies for the cost-effective production of para-Xylene, benzene and mixed xylenes from aromatic-rich reformate and pyrolysis gasoline.
The ParamaX® Suite includes the following solutions:
- Arofining™ selective olefin removal technology, originally developed by Axens,
- Eluxyl® 1.15 para-Xylene purification technology, originally developed by Axens,
- XyMaxSM-2, C8 aromatics isomerization technology, originally developed by ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing,
- TransPlusSM-5, aromatics transalkylation technology, originally developed by ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing.
Axens’ second generation of the energy-efficient ParamaX® Suite provides superior aromatics yields while greatly reducing the plant’s energy consumption and enabling to manage investments for cost-advantaged aromatics production.
Since 2009, CHPCL has been satisfactorily operating an Axens’ ParamaX complex with a production rate exceeding 1,300,000 tons of pure aromatics per year.
Axens’ Process Licensing Global Business Unit Executive Vice-President Patrick Sarrazin said, “This brand-new, state-of-the-art aromatics complex will allow CHPCL to further improve its resilience and competitiveness while producing highly valuable aromatics products.”
Axens will also supply catalysts, adsorbents, equipment and a full-service offer from plant personnel training to successful plant start-up, followed by plant performance monitoring services.
The ParamaX® Technology Suite is a combination of top-of-the-line processes aimed at the production of high-purity para-Xylene and other aromatic molecules such as meta-Xylene, ortho-Xylene, Benzene and Toluene.
To date, Axens has licensed more than 30 ParamaX® aromatics complexes and more than 400 process units aimed at aromatics production or transformation.
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