Air Liquide Engineering & Construction (Air Liquide E&C) and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) have signed a cooperation agreement to license MCC’s Butene-to-crude technology used in the petrochemical industry.
MCC has developed this state-of-the art oxidative dehydrogenation technology of n-butene to produce crude butadiene and verified the viability in a demonstration plant at MCC Mizushima, Japan.
Butadiene is an important industrial chemical used in many day-to-day products, mainly as synthetic rubber for the automotive industry. Butadiene can also be used as a raw material for the production of products such as polymers, plastics and paper chemicals.
Air Liquide E&C can now offer its customers a unique integrated solution for both, butene dehydrogenation and butadiene extraction. This allows to extend the production of butadiene from the conventional extraction from a Naphtha Cracker product to on purpose production based on a wider range of feedstocks.
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