Davy licenses plant to produce 75,000 tpa of Butanediol to Shanxi Sanwei Group Co

Davy Process Technology (DPT) has licensed to Shanxi Sanwei Group Co a plant for producing 75,000 metric tpa of Butanediol equivalent product as a mixture of 1,4 Butanediol (BDO), Tetrahydrofuran (THF) and Gamma Butyrolactone (GBL). The plant will be located at its existing petrochemical complex at Hongtong, Shanxi Province, PR China and is scheduled to come into operation in Q4-2007. DPT has already started the engineering of the Process Design Package in its London office. The plant will use DPT ester hydrogenation technology to produce BDO and its co-products THF and GBL from a maleic anhydride feedstock. The DPT ester hydrogenation technology can offer a full range of product splits between BDO, THF and GBL.