Snamprogetti signs MTBE contracts

Journal Article · Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 1992 · Chemical Week

OSTI ID:486370

Alperowicz, N

Snamprogetti (Milan) will use a Russian-developed dehydrogenation process in a world-scale methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) plant it is to build at Arzew, Algeria for a previously announced joint venture of Sonatrach (Algiers), Total (Paris), and Ecofuel (Milan). The 600,000-m.t./year plant will be the first in the West to use the improved Snamprogetti-Yarsintez fluidized-bed dehydrogenation (FBD) technology proven on a demonstration plant at Yaroslavl, Russia. The process has also been selected for use in Oxyfuel Corp.`s 500,000-m.t./year MTBE plant near Beaumont, TX. Although the environmental permit is already in place, final agreement for this project has not yet been signed.

• OSTI ID: 486370
• Journal Information: Chemical Week, Journal Name: Chemical Week Journal Issue: 15 Vol. 150; ISSN CHWKA9; ISSN 0009-272X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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