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China’s methanol to olefins technology base data for the first time publicly
Posted by weeqoo396 in Jul 15, 2011, under Chemical Industry
Recently, in line with a university science and technology innovation competition, China’s independent intellectual property rights, the world’s first validated through commercialization of methanol to olefins technology base data was first made public.
Methanol to olefins technology is based on coal instead of oil as raw material, methanol production by ethylene, propylene and other basic chemicals of the set of technologies, for ease China’s oil resources are insufficient, the achievement of national “oil alternative” strategic significance. 2011 Fifth university chemical design competition-related design goals is to design a coal chemical plant. Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and Emerging Energy Technology Co., Ltd., after that, for the first time publicly the basic data of methanol to olefins technology, designed for students to reference.
Large earthquake shakes Japan’s global petrochemical industry
Posted by weeqoo396 in Mar 15, 2011, under Chemical Industry
Local time at 14:46 on March 11, northeastern Japan, earthquake, magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a tsunami set off a ten-meter-high waves rushed inland Japan, seriously affecting the Japanese petrochemical Keihin industrial zone industry. Japan is the world’s third-largest economy imports nearly all energy needs. Closure of the factory of the international oil demand, oil prices react immediately to the same time, supply constraints also crashed plastic prices rose. But industry experts point out that, since Japan is not the major earthquake downstream petrochemical businesses, seismic impact on the Japanese chemical industry as a whole should not be fatal.
Some Japanese earthquake and tsunami caused refinery explosion or fire, yet there are a lot of damage to the refinery due to power supply or a potential safety hazard and closed. According to Reuters reports, Ke Simo oil companies located in Chiba City for 22 million barrels / day refinery fire. Maruzen Petrochemical Company under the Keiyo Ethylene (Keiyo Ethylene) the company closed its 690,000 tons / year naphtha cracker. Nippon Oil energy company closed its Kashima City, Ibaraki Prefecture, located in the joint capacity of 600,000 tons / year paraxylene unit and in the joint capacity of 35 million tons Kawasaki / year paraxylene unit. In addition the company also owns three refineries shut down: 14.5 million barrels / day Sendai refinery, 18.9 million barrels / day Kashima refinery and 27 million b / d Negishi refinery.
Baltic Council (BIMCO), Mr. Sand is expected to: “oil tanker shipping may be affected by the refinery fire, thus reducing the demand for product tanker cargo.” Because market participants are worried about falling demand in Japan, the Middle East political instability and ascribed crude oil and naphtha prices after the earthquake occurred in the panic down. Energy Management of New York senior partner Dominic Cai Chilla (Dominick Chirichella), said: “In the long term, Japan’s current situation could have a negative impact on oil prices, while refiners is positive.” March 11, Brent crude oil futures prices fell 1.59 U.S. dollars / barrel to $ 113.84 / barrel; U.S. crude oil futures fell 1.54 dollars / barrel to $ 101.16 / barrel. The day of closing, naphtha prices fell to 989 ~ $ 991 / ton (CFR, Japan).
Ethylene plant closure will push prices
According to Bloomberg news agency reported March 12, the U.S. investment research firm, Alan will be g (Alembic Global Advisors) predicted a major earthquake in Japan caused by plant closures, reduced supply, the global price of ethylene and synthetic resin will be pushed downstream high.
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation on March 11 said the power outage caused by the earthquake shut down its Kashima City, Ibaraki Prefecture is located in the factory. The plant is Japan’s largest ethylene plant, accounted for 11% of Japan’s total output. According to ICIS reports, Chiba Prefecture has five ethylene plant, and now there are at least two have been forced to close.
Alan SPX consulting firm, said 90% of Japan’s use of naphtha as raw material of ethylene. They are expected after the earthquake, the global ethylene supply and demand balance will be more intense, pushing up prices of ethylene and polyethylene. The analyst 哈森阿迈德 (Hassan Ahmed) said Japan’s ethylene production accounts for 5.5% of world exports accounted for 8.5% of the world; polyethylene production capacity accounted for 4.1% of the world, exports accounted for 2.2% of the world ; polypropylene production capacity accounted for 5.5% of world exports accounted for 4% of the world. As crude oil prices fell shortly, vinyl products, profits will expand. Dow Chemical, Lyondell Chemical Company such as Basel and Lake ethylene producers will benefit.
Overall impact is not yet clear
Dow Chemical is located north of Tokyo, ion exchange resins plant experienced flooding, but the cut-off CCIN press time, there were no casualties and environmental impact report. Dow has 31 factories in Japan, the company spokesman said, because communication is limited, the situation is difficult informed of all plants. A joint venture between DuPont and Mitsui announced that the office buildings in Tokyo were slightly damaged, engineering plastics plant in Utsunomiya City, some pipeline damage, no casualties.
Japan’s second-largest chemical maker Asahi Kasei said its chip plant in Miyagi stopped production, the loss can not be determined at present, workers have been evacuated, with injured personnel. The world’s largest tire company Bridgestone said that at present all the factories are not subject to major damage. Japan Synthetic Rubber Company (JSR), Ibaraki Kashima factories closed, but no facilities were damaged. JSR have an annual output of 12 million tons in the Kashima and the annual output of 36,000 tons of butadiene EPDM rubber plant. Tokyo Gas Co. shut down factories and stopped the gas supply.
Another source said, the port closure due to the tsunami may affect the global sulfuric acid market. Japan is now the world’s third largest exporter of sulfuric acid, sulfuric acid production about 750 tons / year. Japan’s total exports in 2010 was 280 million tons of sulfuric acid, the products are mainly exported to Chile, China, the Philippines and India. Japan sulfuric acid is a byproduct of copper smelting, manufacturers are Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and Pan Pacific.
China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association International Director Pang Guanglian CCIN accepted March 13 interview that he had, and Japanese chemical companies in China to contact, Ke Simo refinery explosion, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Idemitsu Kosan Co. and other companies ethylene, bisphenol A unit has been temporarily discontinued, but the Kanto region to the main ethylene refinery, chemical plant is not particularly large, the current earthquake on the overall impact of the Japanese chemical industry is not too much. After the potential impact remains to be seen.
2013 EU ban adipic acid emissions from the project
Posted by weeqoo396 in Nov 16, 2010, under Chemical Industry
Reuters said the EU ban in 2013, the most commonly used to offset industrial emissions of greenhouse gases, including HFC-23 (trifluoromethane), adipic acid, and nitrous emissions projects.
According to People’s Daily reported that the EU is expected to stop their greenhouse gas trading system in the controversial industrial emissions offset mechanism.
Europe to promote the non-phosphorus detergent water purification
Posted by weeqoo396 in Nov 12, 2010, under Chemical Industry
Last week the EU announced it would phase out within a year of phosphate laundry detergent in order to purify the European Union within the rivers, lakes and oceans and other water purposes.
The European Commission said in a report, the ban aims to reduce the phosphate content of waste water. When wastewater containing phosphates to water, the phosphate can cause algal blooms and thus affect the growth of other aquatic organisms. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as “red tide” or “green tide”, and scientists have called this phenomenon as “eutrophication.”
Ban will begin in January 2013. However, the ban does not cover the use of automatic dishwasher detergent or professionals. This is mainly because, at present in these two areas within the European Union also did not appear technically and economically feasible alternative. Phosphate-free detergent “will ensure that EU citizens benefit from improved water quality,” the EU Commissioner responsible for industrial affairs, Antonio Tajani said.
Half a century ago, phosphates are widely used, mainly because it can help to soften hard water and suspended dirt. But once the phosphate released into the wastewater system, it’s hard to be decomposed, and the processing cost is very high.EU experts say 60% of phosphate pollution caused by laundry detergent, 30% is caused by the dishwashing liquid and another 8% caused by industrial emissions.
16% of the Danube in the Baltic Sea 24% of phosphate and phosphate are caused by the detergent. Some EU member states have begun to attack the ban on phosphates. This measure may be re-joined the Eastern European member countries of innovation, in particular small and medium producers in these countries.
Ways to Improve Marketing of Chemical Fertilizer
Posted by weeqoo396 in Nov 10, 2010, under Chemical Industry
Influenced by the financial crisis and an off season for chemical fertilizer at domestic market, the increasing prices of chemical fertilizer begin to drop to varying degrees, especially the price of nitrogenous fertilizer. In order to improve marketing of chemical fertilizer, it is crucial to improve the establishment of customer management system at present.
The dealer, the link to connect products and market, plays an important role in the process of product circulation. Therefore, it is helpful for lager wholesalers to grasp the marketing information of the dealers at the next lower level to open the wider market. Only knowing the information quite well can the lager wholesalers make timely reaction to the market and deal with new situations cooperating with manufacturing enterprises and primary dealers.
In the process of improving customer management system, deploitation of sale plays an important role. Large wholesalers should try their best to push their products to each possible market. That is to say, large wholesalers should eliminate gaps in the market and strengthen the popularity of their products as much as possible. However, an issue may appear in the process. The same market or neighboring markets possibly engage in price war or even cross region sale for their own profits. All these irregular situations can directly affect the dealers’ regular profits and their enthusiasm to promote and popularize the products. Therefore, after the establishment of deploitation of sale, large wholesalers should also pay attention to the price of their neighboring markets. On one hand, primary dealers should strengthen self-discipline. On the other hand, a set of punishment provisions should be established in order to prevent price wars and cross region sale. In addition, in order to protect every dealer’s regular profit and mobilize the initiative to promote the products, a complete price system negotiating with prices of other like products should be established.
As lager wholesalers and primary dealers are complementary to each other, the relationship between them is generally formed into a trend of making progress together and succeeding together. Therefore, it can be said that it is beneficial both for primary dealers and large wholesalers to raise primary dealers’ marketing philosophy and marketing ability. In order to obtain more profits, large wholesalers should guide primary dealers to make nichetargeting market analysis. In addition, large wholesalers can make characteristic marketing program for primary dealers to raise primary dealers’ competitiveness in the local market according to specific characters of local market. Meanwhile, large wholesalers can make full use of their own resources and good marketing experience to establish sales mode for primary dealers, which can raise primary dealers’ promotion capability.
Nowadays, there is a new trend of products on the market—- homogeneity. Therefore, under such a situation, it is unavoidable to appear white-hot competition for profit. In order to improve marketing of chemical fertilizer in such a market environment, a complete set of customer management system should be established and reasonable marketing program should be made according to these real demands of primary dealers.
