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Bluestar Selects Sunoco/UOP Technology to Add Phenol-Acetone Capacity.


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DES PLAINES Des Plaines, city, United States
Des Plaines (dĕs plānz), city (1990 pop. 53,223), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago on the Des Plaines River; inc. 1925. Among its manufactures are chemicals and electronic equipment.
, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2004

Bluestar New Chemical Materials Co., Ltd., Beijing, China, has selected the Sunoco/UOP Phenol phenol (fē`nōl), C6H5OH, a colorless, crystalline solid that melts at about 41°C;, boils at 182°C;, and is soluble in ethanol and ether and somewhat soluble in water.  process for the expansion of their phenol-acetone facility in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. Bluestar will also use the Q-Max(TM) process to expand its cumene Cu´mene   

n. 1. (Chem.) A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by the distillation of cuminic acid; - called also cumol ltname>.
 production by 175% to accommodate the increased phenol and acetone acetone (ăs`ĭtōn), dimethyl ketone (dīmĕth`əl kē`tōn), or 2-propanone (prō`pənōn), CH3COCH3  capacity. Bluestar's expansion is planned to start up in 2005 and produce a total of 120 KMTA KMTA Kentucky Music Teachers Association
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 of phenol and acetone.

Bluestar New Chemical Materials Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of China National Bluestar (Group) Corporation, is a leading producer of chemical products and the largest producer of phenolic resin and bisphenol A in China. Bluestar New Chemical Materials Co., Ltd. has been operating its phenol-acetone production plant based on Sunoco/UOP technology since 1993.

UOP LLC, headquartered in Des Plaines, Ill., U.S.A., is a leading international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, process plants, and consulting services to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries.
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