An Overview of
Olefin Plant
Process
Customer:
Amir Kabir
Petrochemical company
Contractor:
Linde AG and EIED
e : licensor of the process
ducted the Basic Engineering
ided some special equipment like cracking furnaces,
te-fin heat exchanger, spiral wound heat exchanger etc.
D: performed the Detail Engineering and the construction
• 520,000 tons of polymer
. grade ethylene
• 154,000 tons of polymer
. grade propylene
. •At the on-stream time:7920 hours per year
Other Design
• Operating
Criteria: satisfactorily at 40% turndown
. ratio
• Producing 25% liquid ethylene product at
. 100% load
• Or 100% liquid product at a plant capacity
. of 70%
General Layout
General Layout
Material Balance Base
Case
FEED MTPA KG/H Product MTPA KG/H
Fresh 233.000 29419.2 Polymer 520.000 65656.6
Ethane Grade
LPG 38.792 4898 Ethylene
Polymer 154.000 19446.7
Light Ends 350.523 44258 Grade
Propylene
Raffinate I 210.000 26515.1 Hydrogen 52.137 6583
Naphta Fractionatio
Raffinate II 198.625 25079 n
Propane Methane 177.787 22447.8
C4 Cut 117.073 14782 Fraction
from NF C4 Cut 104.597 13206.7
unit
Pyrolysis 134.233 16948.6
C5 Cut 21.360 2697
Gasoline
(Raffinate) C3+
from Py. MAROON Pyrolysis 23.483 2965
Hydrogena Fuel Oil
Feed and Product
Storage
MEA Wash
Process Task:
Removing CO2 from Ethane feed
by means of 15% MEA solution.
Unit 20
Feed Preheating
Process Task:
Preheating different feed stocks to
50 to 70 0C.
Unit 21
Cracking Furnace
Process Task:
Converting feed-stocks to
desired products via pyrolysis
cracking reactions
Generating SHP-steam by
cooling the cracked gas
Unit 11 to 17
Burner Types
Transfer Line Exchanger
Quench Fitting
Oil fractionation
Process Task:
Cooling the hot cracked gas
urifying the cracked gas by condensing
l components
Unit 22
Water Scrubbing
Process Task:
ooling the hot cracked gas down
ambient temperature (40 0C)
Recovering dilution steam
Purifying the cracked gas
Unit 23
Process Steam System
Process Task:
tripping Process Water
enerating Process Steam
Unit 24
Condensate Collecting
System
Process Task:
covery of Process Condensates
Polishing of Condensates
Unit 53,54,55
Steam Balance
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