Published on February 24, 2017
The leading technology developing company Honeywell has announced that Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Company, Ltd. started its UOP Advanced Methanol-to-Olefins (MTO) unit during a 10-day test to confirm successful operation. Once the unit will resume its complete operations than it will have the annual production capacity of 833,000 metric tpa, making it the largest single-train MTO unit in the world. Unit is based at Lianyungang city in China’s Jiangsu province. The plant will further produce propylene for the production of acrylonitrile. The plant also will produce ethylene for the production of ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers, as well as C4 olefins for the production of butadiene.
