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Ecofuel plans MTBE plant in Italy

Journal Article · · Chemical Week
OSTI ID:526099

Ecofuel (Milan), an ENI company, is evaluating construction of a new methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) plant in Italy, but has shelved plans for a world-scale MTBE unit in Mexico. The Italian unit is tied to ethylene expansion now under way. Later this year EniChem (Milan), a sister company, is due to complete construction of a 360,000-m.t./year cracker at Brindisi. The C{sub 4} stream available there and from the existing cracker at Priolo in Sicily should provide enough feed for a unit of up to 100,000 m.t./year of MTBE capacity. Some of the feedstock could also come from the Ravenna cracker.

OSTI ID:
526099
Journal Information:
Chemical Week, Journal Name: Chemical Week Journal Issue: 17 Vol. 150; ISSN CHWKA9; ISSN 0009-272X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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