China’s Shandong Yangmei to use Honeywell MTO technology

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced it had procured the third technology license for its breakthrough methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology, which converts methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks.
China’s Shandong Yangmei Hengtong Chemicals Co. Ltd., a global chemical enterprise that produces urea, methanol, caustic soda, hydrogen peroxide and polyvinyl chloride, said it will use Honeywell UOP’s advanced MTO process. The process combines Honeywell’s UOP/Hydro MTO process with the Total Petrochemicals/UOP Olefin Cracking process to convert methanol from gasified coal into ethylene and propylene. The two are building block materials that are used in the production of films, packaging, plastics and other petrochemicals. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, China is the world’s largest producer of coal and accounts for almost half of global production.
“UOP’s advanced MTO solution allows petrochemical producers in China such as Shandong to tap abundant and cheap coal resources, produce high yields of valuable petrochemicals, and reduce operating costs,” said Pete Piotrowski, senior vice president and general manager of Honeywell’s UOP Process Technology & Equipment business unit. “This technology will help Shandong meet growing demand in China for ethylene and propylene.”
UOP LLC is headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois, U.S.A. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., and 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. (January 13, 2013)