CB&I wins engineering, technology deal for China olefins recovery units
CB&I said on Tuesday that subsidiary Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by China Coal Shaanxi Yulin Energy & Chemical Co. for the license and engineering design of two light olefins recovery units.
The plants will be located in Yulin, Shaanxi Province, China. The startup of the first unit is expected in 2013.
The recovery units, which use breakthrough technology to recover olefins (ethylene and propylene) produced from methanol feed, are each expected to yield 300,000 tpy of polymer-grade ethylene, and 300,000 tpy of polymer-grade propylene.
In addition, the olefins conversion technology (OCT) from Lummus was selected to upgrade the by-product produced by the light olefins recovery units into an additional 165,000 tpy of polymer-grade propylene.
Propylene is a building block used to manufacture a variety of household goods, including plastics, paint and detergents. Ethylene is used to produce such products as plastics, fibers and rubber.
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