Innovative Double Reslurry Technology for

Paraxylene Production

4th International Conference - Indian Polyester

Mumbai, India

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 Double Reslurry Crystallization is the
CLEAR choice
Continuously improved for over 45 years
Lowest capex, opex and environmental emissions
Energy efficient
Ability to debottleneck or expand
Reliable

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 Paraxylene – Sources and Uses

 Paraxylene is a valuable aromatic isomer

 Paraxylene (pX) is used in the polyester chain

 pX is raw material to produce terephthalic acid (TPA), purified terephthalic
acid (PTA) and dimethyl terephthalate (DMT)
 TPA, PTA and DMT are used in manufacture of polyethylene terephthalate
(PET) saturated polyester resins
 Uses of polyesters include:
 Bottles for liquids including water and carbonated beverages
 Fiber used in fabrics for clothing and home furnishings
 Industrial fibers – ropes and geotextiles
 Films such as shrink wrap or boil-in bag pouches
 Polyester demand is forecast to grow at 2-3 times the rate of other fibers

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 pX Recovery Process

Hydrogen Light Feed mixed xylenes/heavy reformate

aromatics

Xylene recovery Double Reslurry

pX
Isomerization column Crystallization

Heavy aromatics

pX lean recycle

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 BP Double Reslurry Crystallization

Xylenes from
Xylenes Recovery
Column

Crystallization Reslurry Reslurry

Centrifuge Centrifuge Centrifuge

Lean Xylenes To pX Product

Isomerization

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 Crystallization Experience Base

BP Plant Location Capacity, kta

 50 years of continuous Geel, Belgium 675
improvement Texas City, USA #3 390
Decatur, USA #2* 720
Texas City, USA #2 530
Decatur, USA #1* 380
Texas City, USA #1 350
Total 3,045
*owned by Indorama as of May 2016

CB&I licensees:
Plant Location Capacity, kta
GS Caltex, Korea World Scale
Reliance Industries Limited, India 1,800

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 The Process Is Continuously Improving

Catalyst
efficiency
improvement

Crystallization
energy savings
$/metric tonne of pX

Fractionation
Energy savings

Future
developments

2000 2005 2010 2015 2020

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 2nd Catalyst Improvement - High Selectivity De-Ethylation (HSDE) Catalyst

oX and mX pX , ethylbenzene + H2 benzene + ethane

Low xylene loss per pass

Non-noble metal High benzene purity - only

catalyst requires fractionation

Close approach to
xylene equilibrium Readily recovers from
for maximum pX sulfur and other poisons
concentration

In situ regeneration
Over 10 year catalyst life
with N2

Result is lower capex and

opex

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 Double Reslurry Crystallization is the
CLEAR choice
Continuously improved for over 45 years
Lowest capex, opex and environmental emissions
Energy efficient
Ability to debottleneck or expand
Reliable

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 Double Reslurry Crystallization – The Best Method to Recover Paraxylene

 Operating cost is lower

 Energy savings result in NPV benefit of $200-300 million (1 million mta pX)
 Increased reliability results in additional $40-75 million NPV benefit
 Lower Capex
 Benefit of $25-75 million on a US Gulf Coast basis
 Flexibility of process
 Ability to process a wide range of feedstocks that is unmatched by other
methods
 Ability to expand at low cost
 Option to utilize to debottleneck existing selective adsorption plant if
feedstock has high paraxylene concentration

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 Low Pressure Xylene Recovery Column(XRC)

XRC separates light aromatics and heavy aromatics from mixed xylenes feed
that are fed to pX crystallization section

Single xylene recovery column =>

One stabilizer for isom + one xylene splitter
Low capex and opex

Operates at low (atmospheric) pressure and low

temperature => inherently safe design

XRC reboiler can be steam reboiler or fired heater

No oxygen stripper/clay towers for imported feed

High feed tolerance for light aromatics and heavy

aromatics
• XRC Reboiler Duty :10-15% of SA unit xylene
column reboiler duty
XRC side-draw vapor used for reboiling source or
steam generation • Steel Weight for XRC : approx. 1/8 of SA xylene
column and Stabilizer (Deheptanizer) for the
same pX capacity

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 Double Reslurry Crystallization is the
CLEAR choice
Continuously improved for over 45 years
Lowest capex, opex and environmental emissions
Energy efficient
Ability to debottleneck or expand
Reliable

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 Energy Advantage with Double Reslurry Crystallization

Freezing beats boiling

Energy reduction with Double Reslurry
80
53% lower Crystallization and optimized refrigeration
60
Heat, kcal/kg

40

20

0
Heat of Heat of
vapourisation fusion

One low pressure xylene

recovery/stabilizer column

Environmental
emissions (SOx / Fuel Power Total
$/MT pX $/MT pX $/MT pX
NOx) are proportional
to fuel usage-25% of Crystallization Base Base Base
SA! Selective Adsorption Base + $51 Base - $14 Base + $37

$37 energy cost advantage

fuel at $60/MM kcal and electricity $0.10/kwh

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 Double Reslurry Crystallization

Paraxylene is recovered as 99.8%+ product via Double Reslurry Crystallization and other
xylene isomers (oX/mX) and ethylbenzene are fed to isomerization

Xylenes pX Double
crystallization Reslurry
Refrigeration power
requirement

Double Reslurry
+ 50% Reduction
Crystallization
Centrifuge Centrifuge
pX lean
xylene Traditional 2 stage
Base
crystallization

pX product

Double Reslurry Crystallization

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 Double reslurry crystallization is the
CLEAR choice
Continuously improved for over 45 years
Lowest capex, opex and environmental emissions
Energy efficient
Ability to debottleneck or expand
Reliable

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 Easy Expansion
Revamp history for BP Geel plant, Belgium
Ethylene refrigeration
700 optimization
Debottleneck of isom
recycle compressor and
675kMTA
600 isom heater
Centrifuge
575kMTA
Original design optimization
Plant Capacity, kMTA

500
500kMTA

400 420kMTA

300

200

100

0
2000 2004 2005 2011
No centrifuges, crystallizers or refrigeration
compressors added or replaced
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 Double Reslurry Debottlenecks

 Low cost expansion

 Debottlenecks selective adsorption at lowest capex

 Improve selective adsorption opex

 Existing Double Reslurry Crystallization unit flexibility

 Feed pX rich stream into later reslurry stage
 Opportunity feed from STDP or other high purity pX stream
 No additional processing steps
 Minimal capex/opex capacity increase similar to Geel experience
 Large capex and opex penalty for selective adsorption unit
 High purity stream gets diluted when mixed with existing lower purity
feed

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 Double Reslurry Crystallization is Environmentally Friendly

Geel, Belgium

100m

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 Double Reslurry Crystallization is the
CLEAR choice
Continuously improved for over 45 years
Lowest capex, opex and emissions
Energy efficient
Ability to debottleneck or expand
Reliable

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 Double Reslurry Crystallization Has High Reliability
100
99.1%
99  Actual Geel Reliability
98

97

96

95

94

93

92

91

90
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Avg

 A 4% higher reliability = 40,000 mta more production

= $ 15 million increase in gross margin per year for 1
MM MTA pX plant

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 Double Reslurry is the CLEAR choice

Continuously improved for over 45 years

Lowest capex, opex and emissions
Energy efficient
Ability to debottleneck or expand
Reliable

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