DuPont Clean Technologies announced that the world’s largest DuPont IsoTherming refinery unit has successfully completed the performance test, certifying that the unit is meeting performance guarantees.
The IsoTherming hydrotreater at Sinochem’s Quanzhou refinery in China is designed to process diesel with low amounts of sulfur.
Capital cost advantages, as well as the need for reduced utility requirements, were key drivers for SinoChem’s selection of IsoTherming technology for this project, a DuPont release stated.
“We were thrilled to partner with Sinochem on this opportunity,” said Glenn Liolios, global business manager for IsoTherming technology. “This is the world’s largest capacity IsoTherming unit, utilizing DuPont’s liquid full reactor and catalyst systems, producing Euro V diesel. This project showcases the value IsoTherming Technology can bring to producing Euro V diesel from difficult cracked feedstocks.”
IsoTherming technology offers lower capital and operating costs while significantly reducing sulfur content in the finished diesel product, the release stared. DuPont has 25 IsoTherming licenses globally, with 11 in commercial operation.
The DuPont Clean Technologies division includes STRATCO alkylation technology for production of clean, high-octane gasoline; IsoTherming hydroprocessing technology for desulfurization of motor fuels; MECS® sulfuric acid production and regeneration technologies; BELCO air quality control systems for FCC flue gas scrubbing, other refinery scrubbing applications and marine exhaust gas scrubbing; MECS DynaWave technology for sulfur recovery and tail gas-treating solutions; and a suite of aftermarket service and solutions offerings.
More information is at www.cleantechnologies.dupont.com.
