UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has been awarded a contract by PetroChina Company Ltd., a subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Corp. to supply technology, basic engineering services and equipment for an aromatics project to be installed at PetroChina's Urumqi facility.
Basic engineering design is underway, and commissioning of the complex, located in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is scheduled for early 2009. The new plant will produce one million metric tpa of paraxylene and will include the largest-capacity, single-train adsorption unit for paraxylene production in the world. The ParexTM process will be used for the adsorption unit. The new plant will also produce 360,000 tpa of benzene and will also house other process units designed by UOP, including a CCR Platforming™ unit to convert naphtha, an oil-derived feedstock, to aromatics and hydrogen and an Isomar™ unit to convert other xylenes to paraxylene.
22-Jan-07 
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