Lummus/UOP EBOne and SMART Processes Chosen To Expand EB/SM Production by 50%.Business Editors 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)--Dec. 11, 2003 UOP LLC UOP LLC, formerly known as Universal Oil Products, is a multi-national company developing and delivering technology to the petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries. announced today that CNPC CNPC China National Petroleum Corporation CNPC Centro Nacional de la Productividad y la Calidad (Chile) CNPC Commander, Navy Personnel Command CNPC China National Philatelic Corporation (Chinese stamp authority) Daqing Petrochemical Complex, in Daqing, Peoples Republic of China, has selected the Lummus/UOP EBOne(TM) and SMART(TM) technologies to increase the production capacity of their existing ethyl-benzene/styrene monomer monomer (mŏn`əmər): see polymer. monomer Molecule of any of a class of mostly organic compounds that can react with other molecules of the same or other compounds to form very large molecules (polymers). (EB/SM) facility. The existing vapor phase EB and conventional SM technologies originally licensed by others will be upgraded in a revamp re·vamp tr.v. re·vamped, re·vamp·ing, re·vamps 1. To patch up or restore; renovate. 2. To revise or reconstruct (a manuscript, for example). 3. To vamp (a shoe) anew. n. which will boost the SM production from 60,000 mta to 90,000 mta. Proficient reuse of existing equipment will enable Daqing Company to achieve the increased production rate with minimal capital investment. The Daqing plant will represent the sixth such expansion project implemented worldwide using the Lummus/UOP SMART technology, the second in China. The EBOne technology is currently used at 22 other plants around the world. UOP LLC, headquartered in Des Plaines, Ill., USA, is a leading international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, process plants, and technical services to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries. |
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