Honeywell has been selected by Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. to provide a range of Honeywell UOP's process technologies for China's "largest" integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Zhoushan, China.
Honeywell UOP will supply technologies as license, design, key equipment, and state-of-the-art catalysts and adsorbents, while Honeywell Process Solutions will provide process controls and automation systems.
A new Oleflex propane dehydrogenation unit will be built to produce 600,000 t/y of polymer-grade propylene. "It will help China meet its goal of self-sufficiency in paraxylene and serve as a major new source of propylene, jet fuel and other products, said by market source.
