400370 Advanced Aromatics Recovery Technology with AED-BTX Process

Tuesday, April 28, 2015: 8:35 AM
13A (Austin Convention Center)
Kuang Wu1, Sung-Chul Yoo2, Jeffrey Chiu1, Ciputra Jap1, Tzong-Bin Lin3 and Jyh-Haur Hwang3, (1)AMT International, Inc., Plano, TX, (2)LG Chem Ltd., Yeosu-shi, South Korea, (3)CPC Corporation

2015 EPC Conference

Title of Paper:  Advanced Aromatics Recovery Technology with AED-BTX  Process

Co-authors:        Sung-Chul Yoo, General Manager, LG Chem, Ltd

Kuang Wu, Vice President, AMT International Inc.

                                Jeffrey T.M. Chiu, Project Manager, AMT International Inc.

                                Ciputra Jap, Senior Process Engineer, AMT International, Inc.

Abstract:

For over forty years, the petrochemical industry has used Liquid-Liquid Extraction (LLE) for the Aromatics Recovery.  Even though Extractive Distillation (ED) has been developed since 1950s, due to the lack of know-how in two –liquid phase distillation & ED process simulation/modeling, the adoption of ED was not very widely used in the past until recent years.

AMT has very successfully demonstrated the ED technology in a Korean plant started up in 2013 and this paper is being co-authored by AMT and LG Chemicals to illustrate the improvements with the conversion from Liquid-Liquid Extraction to Extractive Distillation.


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See more of this Session: Developments in Petrochemicals – Aromatics and Polymers
See more of this Group/Topical: Fuels and Petrochemicals Division - See Also Topicals 4, 6, and 7