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News Release from: Axens | Subject: Iso-5 unit
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 June 2004
C5 Olefin isomerisation unit
commissioned at Sasol
An Axens licensed Iso-5 unit, which isomerises linear pentenes to isoamylenes, was put on stream at the Sasol Synthetic Fuels plant in South Africa, and was started up on a fast track schedule
An Axens licensed Iso-5 unit, which isomerises linear pentenes to isoamylenes, was put on stream at the Sasol Synthetic Fuels Pty plant in Secunda, South Africa The process, used to maximise the concentration of ether forming olefins for a tertiary-amylmethylether (TAME) unit is the world's first
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 16 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The 50,000 kg/h capacity unit employs a proprietary continuous catalytic regeneration (CCR) catalyst system.
The Iso-5 unit was started up on a fast track schedule: two months from process inspection to the signature of the performance certificate and the departure of the Axens team from the site.
The start-up phase, including vessel drying, catalyst loading and circulation, drying, and pre-treatment, oil-in, catalyst regeneration, specification attainment, stabilisation and the performance test was one of the best executed on record.
Axens is an international provider of technologies, catalysts and services to the hydrocarbon industries.
Axens offers commercially proven products including processes, catalysts, adsorbents and equipment backed by nearly fifty years of commercial success.
Axens mission is to enhance customer performance.
Sasol, with a market capitalisation of approximately USD 7 billion, is an integrated oil and gas group with substantial chemical interests.
Based in South Africa and operating in 15 other countries throughout the world, Sasol is the leading provider of liquid fuels in South Africa and a major international producer of chemicals, using a world leading technology for the commercial production of synthetic fuels and chemicals from low grade coal.
In the future Sasol expects to apply this technology to convert natural gas to diesel and chemicals.
Sasol manufactures over 200 fuel and chemical products that are sold in more than 90 countries and also operates coal mines to provide feedstock for synthetic fuels and chemical plants.
The company also manufactures and markets synthesis gas and operates the only inland crude oil refinery in South Africa.
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