Propylene Production ; Propylene ; Propane Dehydrogenation Route ; Propane

Categories:
Categories:
Unit processes/Materials production/Organic chemicals
Location:
NJ-JS-CN
Reference year: 2015 -
Description

Propane dehydrogenation adopts Oleflex process of UOP company, mainly including feed treatment, depropanizer, reaction unit catalyst continuous regeneration unit, reactor effluent compression, drying unit, separation unit, selective hydrogenation, deethanizer, propylene propane Separator unit. The key input parameters of this project include raw materials (propane), energy sources (electricity, steam, fresh water, natural gas) and auxiliary materials (catalyst Pt, etc.). The products are by-products of propylene and hydrogen, and by-products C4 and C2 are produced at the same time. The process produces by-product fuel gas, which is recycled as energy, which belongs to closed-loop energy recovery, so this process does not participate in the quality distribution of environmental impact. When applying this data set for Life Cycle Assessment, it is essential to carefully consider the system boundaries and to apply the mass distribution method for the allocation of the environmental load between the main product, propylene, and the various by-products. Recycling, energy recovery and potential environmental impact offsets due to by-product utilization should be taken into account. Data on emissions should be considered context-specific and may require adjustment when applying to different geographical regions or technological scenarios. The infrastructure and maintenance of the production process are excluded from this LCA model.

Technology

Propane raw materials in my country's coastal areas are mainly imported from the Middle East. The main reason is that the Oleflex process has high requirements on the purity of propane raw materials, and most of the propane in my country comes from liquefied petroleum gas, a by-product of oil refining, which has high impurity content and the purity cannot meet the requirements of the process. The propane raw materials of this enterprise are all imported, so the LCA model of the PDH route considers the raw material transportation stage. Assume that propane is transported 11,000km by sea to the port of Nanjing, China, and then transported to the enterprise through a 400km pipeline.

Process type
Unit
LCI modeling approach
Attributional
Multifunctional modeling
NONE
Format
ILCD
Aggregation type
HORIZONTAL
Data provider
TianGong
Review status
Internal
Cost
Free
Contact
Tiangong LCI Data Working Group