DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont), the supplier of world-leading MECS® sulphuric acid plant engineering, processes, energy recovery and environmental technologies, will be focusing on topics that are of critical importance to members of the sulphuric acid industry at this year’s Sulphur 2019 conference: the future-proofing of emissions management, as well as plant expansion and optimization. Delegates at CRU’s Sulphur & Sulphuric Acid Conference 2019 are gathering in Houston from Nov. 5-7, 2019, to discuss the latest industry developments and find answers to the challenges they face.
DuPont Clean Technologies is pleased to announce the successful performance test of a 3.4 million tons/year IsoTherming® diesel hydrogenation (DHT) unit by CNOOC Huizhou Petrochemicals Co., Ltd. at its Huizhou refinery in Guangdong, China. CNOOC completed calibration of the IsoTherming® DHT unit at 100% load in the third quarter of 2018, with the system meeting all design requirements and product quality targets. Earlier in 2018, the refinery also successfully started up a 2.6 million tons/year IsoTherming® vacuum gas oil (VGO) hydrogenation unit.
DuPont Clean Technologies has announced that Mosaic Fertilizer has recently started up a new sulfur melter at its New Wales, Florida, US, facility, using a MECS® DynaWave® reverse jet scrubber licensed by DuPont to remove SO2, H2S and sulfur particulate.
The Chinese Petroleum Corporation (CPC) awarded DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont) the contract to supply the technology license, engineering and proprietary equipment for a MECS® DynaWave® wet gas scrubbing unit to be installed at its Taoyuan refinery in Taiwan in August 2015.
DuPont™ MECS® DynaWave® technology, licensed by MECS, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of DuPont, has been selected by a major international oil and gas services provider for the installation of three custom-engineered scrubbing systems for sulphur dioxide removal at PRPC Refinery & Cracker Sdn. Bhd, a subsidiary of PETRONAS, the Malaysian National Oil Company. The DynaWave® units are set to be delivered to the company’s RAPID Project refinery in Pengerang, Southern Johor, Malaysia, before the end of the year for subsequent fitting.
DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont) recently signed a contract with Kinetics Technology (KT) for Eni’s giant Zohr deepwater gas field in the Egyptian Exclusive Economic Zone of the Mediterranean Sea. Under the contract, DuPont will be delivering the technology license, engineering and proprietary equipment for two MECS® DynaWave® wet gas scrubbing units while KT will provide the related on-shore gas plant units in Port-Saïd (Egypt) with Claus and Tail Gas Treatment Units (TGTU’s). This combination of technologies will allow the new Zohr project to meet stringent environmental requirements on sulfur dioxide emissions, in all operating cases.
DuPont Clean Technologies (DuPont) announced today that Dangote Oil Refinery Company Ltd (Dangote) has commissioned a range of advanced proprietary equipment from DuPont for the construction of a new refinery in Lekki, near Nigeria’s capital, Lagos. Construction of the new refinery is part of a strategy to boost national Nigerian refinery production and the innovative DuPont technology will allow Dangote to maximize quality and profitability while minimizing its environmental impact. The new refinery is set to become the largest single-train refinery in the world and the complex will include a petrochemical plant, a fertilizer plant and a subsea pipeline project.
