Dow-Davy technology selected by Sinopec

Dow Chemical and Davy Process Technology (DPT; London), a Johnson Matthey subsidiary, say that a subsidiary of Sinopec has selected LP Oxo technology to produce 2-ethylhexanol, normal butanol, and iso butanol in a new plant at Anqing, Anhui Province, China. The new LP Oxo unit will be built by Sinopec Corporation Anqing and will have capacities of 100,000 m.t./year of 2-ethylhexanol, 115,000 m.t./year of normal butanol, and 23,000 m.t./year of iso butanol. The new plant will adopt DPT and Dow’s LP Oxo Selector 10 technology with liquid phase hydrogenation. The...

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