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Indorama Nigeria
The Olefins Plant
Designed Capacity: 300KTA
Technology: Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR)
The Olefins Plant uses the technology licensed by Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) of USA.
The plant has six SCORE furnaces of millisecond technology, of which five are usually
operated and the sixth is used for de-coking or as standby.
The feed stock Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) is fed into the fractionators where C5+
hydrocarbons are recovered at the bottom and C2 to C4 fractions are fed to the cracker
furnaces along with recycle gases – ethane, propane and butane. Ethylene and
Propylene are the main products of Olefins plant, while pentane, hydrogen and fuel gas
are the by-products.
QUENCH &
STEAM COMPRESSION
GENERATION
STEAM
Flow chart of the PRF
NGL FRACTION- CRACKER DRYING
Olefin Plant ATION FURNACES
1 ETHANE 1 2 3
2 PROPANE VC5 +
PRODUCT
3 BUTANE SEPERATION CHILLING
RECYCLE
ETHYLENE CR.GASOLINE
PROPYLENE FUEL GAS
The Panoramic view WASH OIL
of Olefins Plant
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