Ningxia Baota Chemical Fiber Co. to use Honeywell UOP's technologies and equipment

22-Jul-15

China's Ningxia Baota Chemical Fiber Co. will use Honeywell UOP's latest generation technologies and equipment to build an energy-efficient petrochemical complex. The Chinese complex in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, will produce valuable petrochemicals as well as high-quality gasoline, and is expected to come online in 2018. The new complex will be the first in China to use Honeywell UOP's energy efficient aromatics complex design to convert heavy naphtha into 800,000 tpa of high-purity paraxylene. The plant will also produce 520,000 tpa of high-quality gasoline and 200,000 tpa of benzene. In addition to licensing, UOP will provide the basic engineering, commissioning services, training services, proprietary equipment, catalysts and adsorbents for the new complex. "Nowhere in the world is paraxylene demand growing as fast as it is in Asia," said Mike Millard, vice president and general manager of Honeywell UOP's process technology and equipment business. "UOP's next-generation aromatics technology combines the latest catalysts and adsorbents with an energy-efficient design to reduce energy consumption by as much as 20%, helping achieve the lowest cost of operation for para-xylene producers in the industry," he added. "With UOP technology, Ningxia Baota can become a more competitive player in the Asian para-xylene market, which accounts for 83% of the global para-xylene demand."