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News Release from: Davy Process Technology | Subject: Octanol licence for Sasol
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 June 2006
Davy licences Octanol process to Sasol
Davy Process Technology, in cooperation with Union Carbide Corporation, has licensed a process for converting heptene to 1-octanol to Sasol Chemical Industries of South Africa
Davy Process Technology, in cooperation with Union Carbide Corporation, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, has licensed a process for converting heptene to 1-octanol to Sasol Chemical Industries The process, employing low pressure hydroformylation technology, will be incorporated in a novel scheme by which a heptene feedstock, separated from olefinic cuts and available from Sasol Synthetic Fuels (Pty), will be converted to 1-octene
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 5 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The 1-octene plant is being built for Sasol Olefins and Surfactants at the Sasol Secunda complex in South Africa, and will be the third, and largest of three 1-octene trains at that location, but the first to employ a hydroformylation step.
The first two trains, already in operation, use direct extraction of 1-octene from olefinic cuts.
The latest train will produce 100,000 metric tons of 1-octene, and is scheduled to go into operation during the second half of 2007.
1-Octene is used as a chemical intermediate in the production of polymers such as polyethylene, fatty acids, plasticiser alcohols and lubrication oil additives.
Davy Process Technology has completed the basic design of the octanol section at its London office, and engineering, procurement and construction is being carried out by the technology group Linde AG.
This will be the second alcohols facility that Sasol has built employing Low Pressure Oxo technology, the first being used in a 120,000 metric tons per year C12 to C15 higher alcohols plant that went into operation in 2002.
That plant is fed with C11 to C15 olefinic cuts.
In both cases, the technology was developed and tailored to Sasol requirements by Davy Process Technology at its Technology Centre in Stockton-on-Tees, UK.
Davy Process Technology has a global business in petrochemicals technology development and technology licensing.
The company has headquarters in London, and its Technology Centre is 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 and Fertilisers.
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