The company will provide technologies for the production of key petrochemicals and high-quality diesel and jet fuel at its complex in a bid to reduce energy consumption by 33%.
The facility will use several integrated UOP technologies to produce one million metric tons of para-xylene and 500,000 metric tons of benzene per year.
UOP will provide engineering design, technology licensing, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment and technical service for the new units, which will start operations in 2014.
The integrated aromatics complex will use the UOP Parex, Sulfolane, Tatoray, Isomar and CCR Platforming processes to produce high-purity para-xylene and benzene.
Samsung Total Petrochemicals Company is a joint venture between Samsung General Chemicals and Total Petrochemical.
