Enerkem announces plans to enter the US with next-generation biofuels project in MS

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 2009
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1351-4180
• DOI: 10.1016/s1351-4180(09)70158-8

✦ Synopsis

due to come onstream in China during 2009-2010 are based on the production of methanol as an intermediate. A one-step syngas to olefins process is expected to have lower operating costs compared with the two-step process used by these CTO facilities. Dow could use the new technology in a coal chemical project in China, where it is currently looking at the feasibility of a CTO plant at Yulin, Shaanxi province, via a jv with the Shenhua Group.