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UOP selected by PetroChina for new aromatics project.(NEWSDESK: Expansion)(PetroChina Company Ltd.)(Brief article)

China Chemical Reporter, February, 2007 by Xiaolan, Wang

January 18th, 2007 UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced that PetroChina Company Ltd., a subsidiary of the China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), has selected UOP to supply technology, basic engineering services and equipment for an aromatics project to be installed at PetroChina's Urumqi facility.

Basic engineering design is underway, and commissioning of the complex, located in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is scheduled for early 2009.

The new plant will produce one million tons per annum of para-xylene and will include the largest-capacity, single-train adsorption unit for paraxylene production in the world. The Parex[TM] process will be used for the adsorption unit. Para-xylene is a key ingredient in the production of PTA...

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