China's Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Company is expected to start up its 295,000 mt/year methanol-to-olefins plant at Nanjing in 2013, using technology from US-based Honeywell UOP, Honeywell announced Tuesday.
Honeywell UOP will provide technology licenses, basic engineering, catalysts, adsorbents, specialty equipment and technical services for the plant. Methanol used for the production of olefins -- both ethylene and propylene -- will be downstream from coal gas. The project will be the first commercial-scale installation of Honeywell UOP's advanced MTO methanol-to-olefins solution, which allows petrochemical producers to use methanol from natural gas or coal, instead of petroleum, to produce high yields of high-value plastics and petrochemicals, Honeywell said. "This solution, which combines the UOP/Hydro MTO process and the Total Petrochemicals/UOP Olefin Cracking Process, allows producers in countries with limited supplies of crude oil, but plentiful quantities of coal or natural gas, to produce high-value petrochemicals," the company said.
Honeywell UOP's MTO process technology has been successfully demonstrated in a semi-commercial-scale unit built by Total Petrochemicals in Feluy, Belgium, Honeywell said.
