CB&I Announces Technology Award for PDH Plant in China
CB&I announced today that Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, has been awarded a contract by Tianjin Bohua Petrochemical Company Limited for the license and engineering design of a grassroots propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit to be built in Tianjin, China. It will be the first PDH plant in China; and upon start-up in 2012, it will be the largest operating PDH plant in the world.
The unit will use the CATOFIN® dehydrogenation process to produce 600,000 metric tonnes per annum of propylene. Propylene is a building block used to produce a variety of products including plastics and solvents.
CB&I (NYSE:CBI) designs, engineers and constructs some of the world's largest energy infrastructure projects, providing a full spectrum of EPC solutions and proven process technologies. Drawing upon more than a century of experience and the expertise of approximately 16,000 employees worldwide, CB&I safely and reliably executes more than 600 projects a year through its three business sectors: CB&I Lummus builds upstream and downstream oil & gas projects, LNG liquefaction and regasification terminals, and a wide range of other energy related projects; CB&I Steel Plate Structures designs, fabricates and constructs storage tanks and containment vessels and their associated systems for the oil & gas, water & wastewater, mining and nuclear industries; Lummus Technology capitalizes on more than 1,500 patents and patent applications to provide process technologies, catalysts and specialty equipment for petrochemical facilities, oil refineries and gas processing plants.
Published 09/08/2010
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