On November 24, the 1.5 million tons/year ethylene and downstream high-end new materials industry cluster project of Sinopec Zhenhai Base started in Ningbo, Zhejiang. Ma Yongsheng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of the Group Company, and Yi Lianhong, Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, attended the groundbreaking ceremony and started the project.
This project uses ethylene rich gas, ethane rich gas, saturated liquefied gas, hydrogenated C5 and straight-run light/heavy naphtha provided by Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Production Base as the main raw materials.
The process equipment mainly includes 1.5 million tons/year steam cracking, 800,000 tons/year cracked gasoline hydrogenation, 500,000 tons/year aromatic hydrocarbon extraction, 200,000 tons/year butadiene extraction, 18/60,000 tons/year methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE)/butene-1 unit, 400,000 tons/year full density polyethylene (FDPE), 2* 200,000 tons/year polyolefin elastomer (POE/alpha olefin) combination, 400,000 tons/year low density polyethylene (LDPE)/ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA)(Vinyl acetate (VA)) combination, 300,000 tons/year of polypropylene (PP), 300,000 tons/year of butyl octanol, 240,000 tons/year of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer emulsion (VAE), 20/50,000 tons/year of methyl methacrylate (MMA)/propionic acid combination, 200,000 tons/year of acrylonitrile combination, 200,000 tons/year of adiponitrile, 100,000 tons/year of epichlorohydrin/hydrogen peroxide combination, 50,000 tons/year of polybutene-1, 100,000 tons/year 2-propylheptanol, etc. 18 Set of devices. Source: Sinopec