Project Profile
Value: Undisclosed
Location: Taixing, Jiangsu Province, China
Capacity: 650,000 tonnes/year (ethylene production capacity)
Area: unknown
Start-up Year: -
SP Olefins (Taixing) Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of SP Chemicals Pte. Ltd., Singapore is planning to build a new grassroots ethylene plant. The plant will be located in Taixing in China’s Jiangsu Province. The plant’s gas cracker, which will have an ethylene production capacity of 650,000 tonnes/year. The plant is part of SP Olefins’ 1.1 million-tpy light hydrocarbon utilization project (LHUP). The new plant—which will be China’s first gas-cracking ethylene unit—will process low-cost ethane and propane supplies delivered to the site from North America. In 2016, SP Olefins (Taixing) Co. Ltd. let a contract to Technip SA, Paris, to provide technology licensing and process design for the company’s proposed grassroots ethylene plant.
Operators:
SP Olefins (Taixing) Co. Ltd. (a subsidiary of SP Chemicals Pte. Ltd.): Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
Technip SA: Contract to provide technology licensing and process design for the company’s proposed grassroots ethylene plant. In addition to the project’s process design package, Technip will supply a suite of ethylene technology, equipment, and technical services for the plant’s gas cracker. Technip’s scope of delivery under the contract includes the following proprietary technology components:
- Ultra selective conversion coil technology and associated USC furnaces for cracking.
- Heat-integrated rectifier system for ethylene recovery.
- Wet-air oxidation technology for processing of spent caustic production
- Supply of its proprietary ripple trays for liquid and vapor handling in the cracker towers.