Davy Process Technology Licenses Octanol Process to Sasol

16-Jun-2006

Davy Process Technology Limited in cooperation with Union Carbide Corporation, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, has licensed to Sasol Chemical Industries Ltd. a process for converting heptene to 1-octanol. The process, employing low pressure Hydroformylation technology, will be incorporated in a novel scheme by which a heptene feedstock, separated from olefinic cuts and available from Sasol Synthetic Fuels (Pty) Ltd., will be converted to 1-octene.

The 1-octene plant is being built for Sasol Olefins & Surfactants at Sasol's Secunda complex and will be the third and largest of three 1-octene trains at that location, but the first to employ a hydroformylation step. The first two trains, already in operation, use direct extraction of 1-octene from olefinic cuts. The latest train will produce 100,000 metric tons of 1-octene, and is scheduled to go into operation during the second half of 2007.

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