Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN SA (PKN), the largest oil company in Central Europe, has selected UOP to supply technology, basic engineering services and equipment for an aromatics project to be installed at PKN's Plock Refinery in Poland. The new project is planned to start up in 2008 and will produce 400,000 MTA of paraxylene.
UOP will design a Parex (TM) process unit to extract pure paraxylene, an Isomar(TM) process unit to convert other xylenes to paraxylene, and a Tatoray(TM) process unit to convert toluene and heavy aromatics to xylenes.
The efficient Parex process unit will replace an existing paraxylene crystallizer. The Tatoray process unit will be replacing a Detol unit in order to maximize the production of xylenes from the available feedstock. These units will be the first installation of their kind in Poland.
01-Jun-06 
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