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Propylene Oxide project for BPCL Kochi expansion into Petrochemicals
Sumitomo Chemical has signed an agreement with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) of India to license its propylene oxide (PO) production technology in connection with the new large-scale petrochemical complex adjacent to the BPCL refinery complex at Ambalamugal, near Kochi in the state of Kerala.
The project includes construction of new plants for PO and polyols. For PO production, a decision has been made to adopt Sumitomo Chemical's proprietary technology based on a PO-only process in which, with cumene recycling, PO alone is made without accompanying co-products.
Going forward, BPCL will conduct the front-end engineering design and detailed engineering for the new 300,000 tpy capacity PO plant, with targeted completion in 2022.
BPCL envisions that micro, small and medium size Indian businesses could use polyols as an input to manufacture automotive seats, mattresses, shoe soles, refrigeration, coatings, sealants, pharmaceutical, food additives, fibres, etc
Feedstock for the polyols project comes from 500,000 tpy propylene produced from the Kochi Integrated Refinery Expansion Project (IREP). Polyols will take half the propylene, the balance will be used in the Kochi Propylene Derivate project to make specialty chemicals such as acrylic acid, butyl acrylate, ethyl hexyl acrylate, normal butanol, iso butanol and ethyl hexanol.
BPCL are anchor investor on 490 acres in the petrochemical and pharma park that the Kerala government is promoting. BPCL is strategically entering the petrochemical sector to reduce India’s dependence on petrochemical imports.
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