Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP), Houston, has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Ill., to provide technology, design services, and equipment for a grassroots isobutane dehydrogenation (iBDH) unit to be built at subsidiary Enterprise Products Operating LLC’s operations in Mont Belvieu, Tex. (OGJ Online, Jan. 30, 2017).
UOP will license its proprietary C4 Oleflex technology as well as deliver a modular continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR) unit for the proposed iBDH plant, which will produce 425,000 tonnes/year of isobutylene, the service provider said.
Alongside technology licensing and equipment, UOP also will supply basic engineering design, control systems, catalysts, and adsorbents for the unit.
A value of the contract was not disclosed.
After announcing the project in late January, EPP said the iBDH plant aligns with the company’s broader strategy to boost utilization capacity of its existing downstream octane-enhancement and petrochemical operations at the US Gulf Coast.
Supported by long-term contracts with investment-grade customers and scheduled for mechanical completion during fourth-quarter 2019, the new iBDH unit will be able to produce both high and low-purity isobutylene for use primarily as feedstock at EPP’s olefins assets to expand production of lubricants, rubber products, alkylate for gasoline blendstock, and methyl tertiary butyl ether for export.
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