Commodity Production Costs
Impact PP from Propylene and Ethylene (Slurry Process)
This report examines the costs related to Polypropylene (PP) Impact Copolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene and ethylene in the United States, using a typical improved slurry phase polymerization process.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Homopolymer from Propane (STAR PDH / Spheripol PP)
This study presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Homopolymer production from propane. Polymer grade (PG) propylene is first produced via a two-step propane dehydrogenation process (steam reforming/oxyreaction), similarly to the Uhde STAR process. PG propylene is then polymerized using a bulk phase polymerization process similar to LyondellBasell Spheripol. The economic analysis performed assumes a plant located in the United States.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Homopolymer from Propane (Oleflex PDH / UNIPOL PP)
This study presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Homopolymer production from propane. In this two-step process, first polymer grade (PG) propylene is produced via dehydrogenation of propane, carried out in a moving-bed reactor, similarly to UOP Oleflex. Gaseous PG propylene is then polymerized to PP in fluidized-bed reactors (FBRs), similarly to the Grace UNIPOL process. The economic analysis performed assumes a plant located in the United States.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Homopolymer from Propane (Oleflex PDH / Spheripol PP)
This study presents the economics of Polypropylene production from propane. In this two-step process, first polymer grade (PG) propylene is produced via dehydrogenation of propane, carried out in a moving-bed reactor, similarly to UOP Oleflex. PG propylene is then polymerized using a bulk phase polymerization process similar to LyondellBasell Spheripol. The economic analysis performed assumes a plant located in the United States.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Homopolymer from Propane (CATOFIN PDH / Novolen PP)
This report examines the costs related to Polymer Grade (PG) Propylene production from propane in the United States. In this process, polymer grade (PG) propylene is first produced via dehydrogenation of propane using fixed-bed reactors, in a process similar to Lummus CATOFIN. Then propylene is subjected to a gas phase polymerization in vertical stirred-bed reactors to produce polypropylene, in a process similar to Lummus Technology's Novolen.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Homopolymer from Propane (CATOFIN PDH / Spheripol PP)
In this process, propane is first dehydrogenated in fixed-bed reactors, using a process that is similar to Lummus CATOFIN, yielding polymer grade propylene. PG propylene is then polymerized using a bulk phase polymerization process similar to LyondellBasell Spheripol and Mitsui Hypol II. The economic analysis performed assumes a plant located in the United States.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Random Copolymer from Propylene and Ethylene (Novolen)
This study presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Random Copolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene and ethylene in the United States. The process examined in this report is similar to Lummus Technoloy's Novolen, which uses vertical stirred-bed reactors.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Random Copolymer from Propylene and Ethylene (INNOVENE)
This report analyses the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Random Copolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene and ethylene in the United States. The process examined in this report is similar to INEOS INNOVENE and JPP HORIZONE, which uses a horizontal stirred-bed reactor.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Random Copolymer from Propylene and Ethylene (UNIPOL)
It presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Random Copolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene and ethylene in the United States. The process examined in this report is similar to Grace UNIPOL process, which uses fluidized-bed reactors (FBRs).
Commodity Production Costs
PP Random Copolymer from Propylene and Ethylene (Spherizone)
This report examines the costs related to Polypropylene (PP) Random Copolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene and ethylene. The cost analysis is based on a plant located in the United States, using a gas phase polymerization process in a multi-zone circulating reactor (MZCR), similar to LyondellBasell Spherizone.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Random Copolymer from Propylene and Ethylene (BORSTAR)
This study presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Random Copolymer production from PG propylene and ethylene. The analysis concerns a plant constructed in the United States, using an hybrid (slurry/gas) polymerization process similar to Borealis BORSTAR.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Random Copolymer from Propylene and Ethylene (Spheripol)
This report presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Random Copolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene and ethylene. The economic analysis assumes a plant located in the United States, using a bulk phase polymerization process in loop reactors, similar to LyondellBasell Spheripol and Mitsui Hypol II.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Homopolymer from Propylene (Spheripol)
This report presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Homopolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene. The process under analysis uses a bulk phase polymerization process similar to LyondellBasell Spheripol and Mitsui Hypol II. The economic analysis performed assumes a plant located in the United States.
Commodity Production Costs
Impact PP from Propylene and Ethylene (BORSTAR)
This study presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Impact Copolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene and ethylene in the United States, using a slurry/gas phase polymerization process similar to Borealis BORSTAR process. This process is divided in two modules. The first is applied for homopolymer and the second is added to produce the copolymer.
Commodity Production Costs
Impact PP from Propylene and Ethylene (Spheripol)
It presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Impact Copolymer production from polymer grade propylene and ethylene in the United States, using a bulk/gas phase polymerization process similar to LyondellBasell Spheripol and Mitsui Hypol II. This process occurs in loop reactors followed by a gas-phase fluidized-bed reactor, which converts homopolymer to copolymer.
Commodity Production Costs
Impact PP from Propylene and Ethylene (Novolen)
This report examines the costs related to Polypropylene (PP) Impact Copolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene and ethylene in the United States. The process examined in this report is similar to Lummus Technology's Novolen process. This process occurs in vertical fluidized-bed reactors connected in series.
Commodity Production Costs
Impact PP from Propylene and Ethylene (INNOVENE)
This study presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Impact Copolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene and ethylene in the United States. This process is similar to INEOS INNOVENE and JPP HORIZONE processes. The reaction occurs in horizontal agitated reactors connected in series.
Commodity Production Costs
Impact PP from Propylene and Ethylene (UNIPOL)
This report presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Impact Copolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene and ethylene in the United States. The process examined in this report is similar to Grace UNIPOL process. This process occurs in fluidized-bed reactors (FBRs) connected in series.
Commodity Production Costs
Impact PP from Propylene and Ethylene (Spherizone)
It presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Impact Copolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene and ethylene in the United States, using a gas phase polymerization process similar to LyondellBasell Spherizone process. This process employs two multi-zone circulating reactors (MZCRs) connected in series, with PP Homopolymer as intermediate.
Commodity Production Costs
PP Homopolymer from Propylene (Novolen)
This study presents the economics of Polypropylene (PP) Homopolymer production from polymer grade (PG) propylene in the United States. In this process, gaseous PG propylene is polymerized in vertical stirred-bed reactors. The process examined in this report is similar to Lummus Technology's Novolen.