Jilin Connell Selects Honeywell's Advanced Methanol-To-Olefins Technology To Make Plastics From Coal

Jilin Connell selects Honeywell's Advanced Methanol-to-Olefins technology to make plastics from coal

28-Oct-16

Honeywell UOP announced that China's Jilin Connell Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. has selected its Advanced Methanol-to-Olefins (MTO) process to tap domestic coal resources to produce ethylene and propylene, the essential ingredients for making plastics. The new plant, scheduled for completion in 2017, will be located in Jilin City in China's Jilin Province, and will convert domestic sources of methanol into 300 kmta of ethylene and propylene. The new plant's offtake will be supplied to ethylene oxide and propylene oxide manufacturers currently operating in the same industrial park Jilin Connell is the ninth company to license the Honeywell UOP technology, which produces superior yields at lower cost compared to competing technologies.
"Honeywell UOP's Advanced MTO technology is a proven process in China, which is expected to invest more than US$100 bln in coal-to-chemicals technology in the next five years," said Mike Millard, vice president and general manager of UOP's Process Technology and Equipment business. "This technology has the highest yield of ethylene and propylene with the lowest consumption of methanol and catalysts, as well as the lowest operating and capital costs of any methanol-to-olefins solution."

Honeywell UOP's Advanced MTO process combines the UOP/Hydro MTO process and the Total/UOP Olefin Cracking Process to significantly increase yields and feedstock efficiency. The process converts methanol from coal and natural gas into ethylene and propylene. At the heart of the technology are UOP's proprietary catalysts, which make it possible to efficiently adjust the ratio of propylene and ethylene produced so operators can most effectively meet demand for those products. In addition, the Advanced MTO process offers the lowest operating cost, quick and efficient start-up and operational reliability. Jilin Connell Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. was established in November of 2006 with operations in the Jilin Economic and Technology Development Zone. The company's main products currently include aniline, nitrobenzene, nitric acid and synthetic ammonia. It also operates a 60,000-cubic meter per hour coal gasification unit.