Shandong Wantong Petrochemical Group Co. Ltd. has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC, a subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., to supply its proprietary high-activity HYT-6219 hydrotreating catalyst for production of ultralow-sulfur diesel (ULSD) at Wantong Petrochemical’s 6.5 million-tonne/year refinery in Donyging City, Shangdong Province, China.
Already delivered to and in use at the Donyging City manufacturing site, the specialty catalyst has enabled the refinery’s existing hydrotreater to produce cleaner-burning, high-centane ULSD as well as attain its lowest sulfur levels on record without requiring any expensive modifications or overhauls to unit equipment, Honeywell UOP said.
Part of Honeywell UOP’s Unity hydrotreating portfolio and capable of achieving more stringent global quality specifications on ultralow-sulfur transportation fuels of less than 10 ppm, the new catalyst also is designed to increase the refiner’s flexibility to profitably take advantage of less expensive feedstock such as heavier-but-harder-to-process opportunity crudes by allowing more thorough processing of those crudes into cleaner products.
Wantong Petrochemical’s use of the HYT-6219 catalyst marks the first commercialization of a Honeywell UOP hydrotreating catalyst in distillate hydrotreating service since the service company exited an alliance with Albemarle Corp. last year, according to Honeywell UOP.
A value of the contract was not disclosed.
Alongside its primary 6.5 million-tpy primary crude distillation unit, Wantong Petrochemical’s Donyging City refinery includes the following major processing capacities, according to its web site: 800,000 tpy of hydrocracking, 1.2 million tpy of delayed coking, 1.8 million tpy of fluid catalytic cracking, 1.4 million tpy of continuous catalytic reforming, 600,000 tpy of bitumen upgrading, and 100,000 tpy of aromatics.
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