SOCAR Turkey Energy AS has selected Axens’ (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) ParamaX Technology Suite for its project of aromatics and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) complex in the future petrochemical site in Aliaga, Turkey. When the final investment decision is taken, this future complex will aim at satisfying domestic market needs in PTA.
For this project, Axens offered its second-generation energy efficient ParamaX Suite of technologies for cost-effective production of benzene, p-xylene and o-rthoxylene, in combination with its Pygas hydrogenation technology for steam cracking gasoline treatment.
ParamaX Suite consists of the following technologies:
- Eluxyl, 1.15 p-xylene purification technology originally developed by Axens
- Morphylane, aromatics extractive process originally developed by ThyssenKrupp Uhde Engineering Services
- XyMax-2, C8 aromatics isomerization technology originally developed by ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing
- TransPlus-5, aromatics transalkylation technology originally developed by ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing
Axens second generation ParamaX Suite delivers superior products yields while greatly reducing plant energy consumption and enabling to control investment for cost-advantaged aromatics production, says the company
In addition, Axens will provide catalysts, adsorbents, equipment and full services offer from plant personnel training to plant successful start-up, followed by plant performances monitoring services.
The future aromatics complex is expected to produce 1,162,000 tons per year of p-xylene, o-xylene and benzene.