CNOOC Huizhou Petrochemical Company Limited (CHPCL) has selected Axens’ ParamaX® Technology Suite for its petrochemical complex expansion in Daya Bay, China.
The project aims at increasing CHPCL’s high-purity aromatics production capacity to 3,000,000 tons per year. The new aromatics complex will produce 1,500,000 tons per year of para-Xylene in a single train.
Axens offered its second generation of the energy-efficient ParamaX® Suite of technologies for the cost-effective production of para-Xylene, benzene and mixed xylenes from aromatic-rich reformate and pyrolysis gasoline.
The ParamaX® Suite includes the following solutions:
Arofining™ selective olefin removal technology, originally developed by Axens,
Eluxyl® 1.15 para-Xylene purification technology, originally developed by Axens,
XyMaxSM-2, C8 aromatics isomerization technology, originally developed by ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing,
TransPlusSM-5, aromatics transalkylation technology, originally developed by ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing.
Axens’ second generation of the energy-efficient ParamaX® Suite provides superior aromatics yields while greatly reducing the plant’s energy consumption and enabling to manage investments for cost-advantaged aromatics production.
Since 2009, CHPCL has been satisfactorily operating an Axens’ ParamaX complex with a production rate exceeding 1,300,000 tons of pure aromatics per year.
About CNOOC Huizhou Petrochemical Company Limited
CHPCL is the first large-scale refinery wholly owned by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation and the first refinery in the world that focuses on the processing of high-acid heavy crude oil. It is located in the Daya Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, adjacent to Shenzhen and Hong Kong, covering an area of 268 square kilometers, with a total investment of 21.6 billion yuan in the first phase and a crude oil processing scale of 12 million tons / year, including 16 sets of main production units, such as pressure distillation, hydrocracking, delayed coking, continuous reforming, etc., complete with crude oil and product oil terminals, storage tanks and utilities. It mainly produces more than 11.5 million tons of petrochemical products in 15 categories, including gasoline, aviation coal, diesel, benzene, liquefied gas, propylene, ethylene cracking material, sulfur, petroleum coke, etc. It is a major strategic measure for CNOOC to further improve its industrial chain, ensure the maximum economic benefit upstream and downstream, and build a first-class international energy company.
