Proteus signs agreement with Syngenta

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Weight: 60 KB
• Volume: 2009
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1351-4180
• DOI: 10.1016/s1351-4180(09)70071-6

✦ Synopsis

technology for manufacturing benzene, toluene, and xylene using light naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas. The Tokyo-based company is likely to refocus its research programme to develop a low-cost BTX production process towards other forms of reactions, catalysts and feedstocks. The decision came after the company discovered that the acidity-adjusted zeolite catalyst that it uses in its proprietary Z-forming process falls short of the minimum output needed to consider a BTX production economically practical.