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ETHYLENE PLANT EXPANSION ON STREAM FOR CANADIAN INDUSTRIES LIMITED Lummus Designs and Engineers 85% Expansion of Ethylene Plant at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Expansion of C-I-L's ethylene facilities at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is completed and the plant now has a capacity of 46 million lbs. per year of high purity ethylene. T h e entire output of this unit is used b y C-I-L to manufacture polyethylene. Lummus designed and engineered the expansion of the existing cracking facilities, built in 1953, for the increased production of ethylene, and the ethane recovery unit for extracting ethane from natural gas. As originally designed, the plant recovered ethylene from the cracking heater effluent and ethane from natural gas by oil absorption. In the expanded plant additional capacity is obtained by withdrawing the natural gas portion and increasing the heater effluent. The new low temperature ethane recovery plant has a demethanization unit which utilizes ethylene refrigeration to temperatures as low as —145 °F. At C-I-L's request suffi-
cient capacity has been designed into this unit to permit another expansion step in the future. Up-to-date equipment was employed to ensure economical and efficient operation. Special efforts were made, wherever possible, to incorporate existing equipment into the expanded plant. In addition to the C-I-L expansion project, Lummus has designed 13 complete ethylene plants, with a combined total capacity of over one billion pounds per year. Over 800 plants have been designed, engineered and con' structed by Lummus for the process industry throughout the world in the last fifty years. W h y not discuss your next project with a Lummus representative? T H E L U M M U S C O M P A N Y , 385 Madison Avenue, N e w York 17, New York, Houston, Washington, D . C , Montreal, London, Paris, The Hague, Madrid; Engineering Development Center: Newark, N . J.
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