The agreements include three Clariant catalysts for the production of ethylene, styrene and propylene.
Clariant says its catalysts business has been awarded new contracts from China’s Lihuayi Group for its upcoming petrochemicals production units. The agreements include three Clariant catalysts for the production of ethylene, styrene and propylene. Headquartered in the Dongying area, Shandong province, Lihuayi Group is an industrial group for petrochemicals, pharmaceutical, textile and garment industries in China.
From Clariant’s ethylene catalyst line, Lihuayi chose the OleMax 101 catalyst for its 1000 KTA olefins plant for high-value olefins recovery from cracked gas and off-gas streams. The OleMax 100 series is used to purify gas streams for acetylene, dienes, oxygen, nitrogen oxides and heavy metals, in a single reactor. Lihuayi’s new 720 KTA styrene plant will use Clariant’s StyroMax UL 3 rib-shaped styrene catalyst.
The third Lihuayi plant for propane dehydrogenation (PDH) reportedly will have a design capacity of 600 KTA and operate with Clariant’s Catofin catalysts and heat generating material (HGM). Catofin is a dehydrogenation catalyst used for the production of olefins, such as propylene or isobutylene, from light paraffin feedstocks.
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