CNOOC Oil & Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., the refining arm of China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), has commissioned a new wet-gas scrubbing system to minimizes atmospheric emissions of fine particulate and sulfur oxides from a 1.2 million-tonne/year fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) at subsidiary CNOOC Dongfang Petrochemical Co. Ltd.’s Hainan refining and petrochemical complex at Dongfang City in southern China’s Hainan Province.
Fitted by Beijing Milestone Technologies under license from DuPont Clean Technologies, the new Dupont BELCO EDV wet-gas scrubber comes as part of the refinery’s extensive investments in technology to reduce emissions and improve quality of gasoline and diesel production at the site to meet new Chinese national emissions standards, DuPont said.
The system installation at Hainan joins CNOOC’s existing use of BELCO scrubbers to control emissions from a 4.9 million-tpy FCCU and 1.2 million-tpy FCCU at subsidiary CNOOC Huizhou Refining & Chemical Co. Ltd.’s 12 million-tpy integrated refining complex at the Daya Bay Economic & Technological Development Zone in Huizhou in China’s Guangdong province, according to the service provider.
Together, MSTN and DuPont have licensed and supplied over 60 new BELCO EDV wet-scrubbing systems for FCCUs in China, preventing over 200,000 tpy of air pollutants from sulfur oxides and fine particulate emissions to the atmosphere.
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