UOP to design Baku gasoline complex
By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Feb. 8 -- Baku Heydar Aliyev Refinery (BHAR), a unit of State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan, has let a contract to UOP Ltd., Des Plaines, Ill., for basic design of a high-octane gasoline complex in Baku.
The complex will comprise a 300,000-tonne/year alkylation unit, a 130,000-tonne/year di-isopropyl ether unit based on UOP's Oxypro process, and a UOP Butamer process unit.
UOP's Alkylene technology uses a solid catalyst instead of liquid acid to alkylate C4 olefins with isobutane.
The project is part of a BHAR modernization program.
Production is scheduled to begin in 2008.