LP Oxo Process for Butanol Plant in Jilin, China.

Davy Process Technology have signed an agreement with PetroChina International to provide a license, design package, equipment and technical services for a 128 KTA normal butanol plant in China

PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical Licenses LP Oxo Process for 128 KTA Butanol Plant in Jilin, China.

Davy Process Technology of London, in co-operation with Union Carbide Corporation, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, have recently signed an agreement with PetroChina International Company of Beijing, China to provide a license, design package, equipment and technical services for a 128 KTA normal butanol plant.

The plant will employ the LP Oxo Process technology and will be built and operated by PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical Company at Jilin, China.

The normal butanol will be primarily consumed captively in internal operations and in the regional market for the production of solvents, paints, coatings and adhesives, while some volume will be sold into the regional merchant market.

The additional production will help to reduce China's partial dependence on imported butanol, which this year is likely to exceed 300 KTA.

Feedstock propylene will be available from the PetroChina Jilin ethylene plant expansion.

Design work is underway at the London Office of Davy Process Technology, and PetroChina Jilin expect to fast track the project for completion by the end of 2004.

This will be the second plant PetroChina Jilin has built employing the LP Oxo Process, the first being a swing plant commissioned in 2000 designed to produce either 2-ethylhexanol or normal butanol.

This new capacity will make Jilin the largest butanol producer in China.

David Tomlinson, President of Davy Process Technology commented, "We're pleased PetroChina Jilin has come back for a second license for LP Oxo technology so soon after the first.

They are keen to exploit the market situation in China, and we will be doing all we can to help them achieve an aggressive project schedule.

We are proud of the success of our LP Oxo technology in China, and the value that that it has created for Jilin and others".

Christopher Gann, vice president of Technology Licensing and Catalyst for Dow, noted "Dow welcomes the further co-operation with PetroChina Jilin.

We're pleased that this technology will play an even larger role in their strategy.

This selection confirms the operational reliability and real economic benefits that the LP Oxo Process technology brings to those who operate it".

The Low Pressure Oxo Process is the world's leading process for the production of oxo alcohols from olefins.

It is the result of a collaboration between Davy Process Technology and Union Carbide Corporation that began in 1971.

To date, this process technology has been adopted in 22 licensed plants worldwide, accounting for most of the world's oxo alcohols capacity licensed during the last 25 years.

The LP Oxo technology has been awarded the Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Award as well as an R and D 100 Award for a new generation of catalysts.

Today, the process is licensed by Davy Process Technology in conjunction with The Dow Chemical Company, following its acquisition of Union Carbide in February 2001.

Dow has extensive commercial experience with this technology and utilises it in four manufacturing facilities worldwide.

While Davy provides plant design services and Dow, through Union Carbide, provides proprietary catalysts, the two companies jointly provide operator training, start-up assistance and ongoing technical support to licensees.

Davy Process Technology has a global business in petrochemicals technology development and technology licensing.

The company has headquarters in London, a subsidiary company in Switzerland and a Technology Centre in Stockton-on-Tees.

It owns a range of proprietary process technologies such as Methanol, Gas Conversion Technologies, Butanediol, Natural Detergent Alcohols, Oxo Alcohols, Industrial Amines, Ethyl Acetate, Fertilisers, Loop Reactors, Fluorine Chemicals, Phosgene and Carbon Anodes.

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