Production Cost Report
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ICC - Volume: 176
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ICC - Title: Vinyl Chloride Production from Acetylene
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ICC - Report Location Code: USA
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ICC - Plant Capacity Unit Name: kilo metric ton per annum
ICC - Plant Capacity Unit Short Name: kta
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ICC - Process Overview Text: <h6>Product</h6> <p><b>Vinyl Chloride</b>. Vinyl chloride, or vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), is a major chemical commodity, with worldwide importance related to its industrial use as the precursor to PVC. VCM is also used in a wide variety of copolymers. Inherent flame-retardant properties, wide range of plasticized compounds, and low cost of polymers produced from vinyl chloride have made it in fact a major industrial chemical, manufactured in about fifty countries. First commercially produced by catalytic hydrochlorination of acetylene, vinyl chloride nowadays is largely produced through ethylene-based, balanced vinyl chloride process. VCM production routes development have been tightly connected to the availability of key raw materials, particularly ethylene and chlorine, along with concerns related to energy efficiency, environmental impact, safety, and process reliability. Most of the existing VCM plants are actually integrated to EDC plants, where direct chlorination and oxychlorination processes are employed in parallel for EDC production.</p> <h6>Raw Materials</h6> <p><b>Chemicals</b>. </p> <b>Acetylene</b>. Acetylene (also known as ethyne) is the simplest alkyne and a very important commercial compound. It has several applications in the processing of metals, as well as in the manufacture of chemical compounds, such as vinyl chloride and 1,4-butanediol. This chemical is produced on commercial scale mainly from partial combustion of methane or as a side product in the ethylene stream from cracking of hydrocarbons.</p> <b>Hydrogen Chloride</b>. Hydrogen Chloride (HCl), commonly found as hydrochloric acid (a.k.a. muriatic acid) when dissolved in water, is a highly important industrial chemical. Hydrochloric acid has widespread applications in various industries, with major uses in steel pickling, pH control, water treatment, and as a catalyst in chemical synthesis. It is also employed in the production of chlorides, fertilizers, dyes, and in food processing. Hydrogen chloride is primarily produced through the direct synthesis of hydrogen and chlorine, or as a by-product of chlorination reactions in various organic processes. The HCl gas can be absorbed in water to produce aqueous hydrochloric acid, which is the form most widely used industrially.</p>
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ICC - Process Schematic Text: <p>The process under analysis comprises three major sections: (1) Reaction; (2) VCM Purification; and (3) Acetylene Recovery.</p><p>Reaction. Compressed acetylene is passed through dryers for removal of any residual moisture and then fed to guard beds to remove any contaminants that may damage catalyst activity. Purified acetylene is mixed with anhydrous hydrogen chloride. The gaseous raw materials are fed to a multi-tubular heat exchanger, in which tubes are packed with catalyst and a cooling fluid is fed to the shell to remove the heat generated by the reaction. </p><p>VCM Purification. The reaction effluent is twice scrubbed with water and caustic solution to remove any hydrogen chloride. A diluted hydrochloric acid is sent to hydrogen chloride recovery and wastewater is disposed. Gaseous effluent is recompressed, cooled and fed to a three-phase separator. The uncondensed light ends are transferred to the Acetylene Recovery.The organic liquid phase is transferred to a column for further purification. Vinyl Chloride crude product is recovered as the bottom stream. VCM crude product is fed to the final purification column, where purified VCM is recovered in the column overhead and stored.</p><p>Acetylene Recovery. Uncondensed light ends from the Dehydration Column are fed to an absorption column, in which acetylene is absorbed in liquid chlorinated hydrocarbons. Acetylene absorbed is recovered in a stripping column. The acetylene removed as overhead stream is recycled to reactor feed. </p><p></p>
ICC - Short Description: This feasibility study reviews a typical hydrochlorination process for Vinyl Chloride production from acetylene. In this process, anhydrous hydrogen chloride is reacted in vapor phase with acetylene over a mercuric chloride catalyst producing Vinyl Chloride. The economic analysis presented is based on the construction of an industrial plant in the United States.
ICC - Main Product: Vinyl Chloride
ICC - Plant Capacity: 280.00
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Vinyl Chloride Production from Acetylene

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Breakdown of Vinyl Chloride process unit (ISBL) costs and infrastructure (OSBL) costs; plant cost breakdown per discipline

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