1JUMIM ϋ S ENGINEERS AND CONSTRUCTORS FOR INDUSTRY 385 Madison Avenue
New York 17, Ν. Υ.
200,000,000 LB. PER YEAR ETHYLENE PLANT FOR PETROLEUM CHEMICALS, INC. ON STREAM Liimmus Designs, Engineers and Constructs Plant to Pipeline 99,7+ Percent Ethylene
Petroleum Chemicals, Inc. new ethylene plant at Lake Charles, Louisiana is now on stream. Initial ethylene product capacity is 600,000 lbs per day but Lummus has designed the plant for rapid ex pansion to a rate of 900,000 lbs/per day. Ethylene will be produced in two grades — the highest grade is 99.7% assay and the other gradj 9 8 % . Co-prod ucts will be high assay propylene, a butane-butylene fraction and aromatic distillate. Operations have been marked by continuous production of specification high assay ethylene under widely varying rates and feed stock compositions. The plant incorporates a new ethylene separa tion process developed by The Lummus Company which provides high separation efficiencies and unusual flexibility and reliability. Feed gases for the ethylene plant are provided from three sources;
the nearby refineries of Cities Service and Conti nental Oil — by whom P.C.I, is jointly owned — and P.C.I.s new ammonia plant. P.C.I.'s high assay ethylene is delivered via pipeline to customers at ( )range, Texas. Part of the new plant's output feeds the adjacent Calcasieu Chemical Corporation's new ethylene oxide and glycol plant, also engi neered and constructed by Lummus. Kthyiene is used in the manufacture of polyeth ylene plastics, anti-freezes, synthetic rubber prod ucts, tetraethyl lead and liquid detergents. ("racking section of the plant features an im proved Lummus heater which embodies years of research and development by Lummus' Oil Heater Division. All major compressors in the Lummus designed low temperature fractionation unit are driven by three 12,500 IIP gas turbines. Gas turbine exhaust serves as preheated air for three high pressure steam generators. High efficiency expanders pro vide low temperatures for maximum ethylene re covery. This plant brings the total of Lummus designed ethylene plants to 14, with a combined capacity of over 1 billion pounds per year. Lummus has designed, engineered and con structed over S00 plan is for the process industries throughout the world in the last 50 years. Why not discuss your next project with a Lummus repre sentative. T H E LUMMUS COMPANY, 385 Madison Avenue, New York 17, N. Y., Houston, Washington, D . C , Montreal, London, Paris, The Hague, Maracaibo. Engineering Development Center: Newark, N. J. JAN.
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