| Abstract: | UOP has been selected by PetroChina's Sichuan Petrochemical Company to provide technology,basic engineering design services and equipment to the integrated refining/chemical project near Chendu,Sichuan province.Currently this project is in the engineering design phase.This integrated project will manufacture fuel and petrochemical products,including a 600 kt/a paraxylene (PX) unit using UOP's ParexTM process and a 350 kt/a benzene unit.It is projected that in the future ten years to come the demand for PX will increase by 11% a year. |
