China’s state-controlled energy and chemical company, Sinopec on June 10, completed the installation of the world’s first and largest slurry-bed hydrogenation reactor at Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical’s 40 million tons/year integrated refining & chemical project, phase II, at Zhoushan, China. The unit will be the core of the complex’s operations. The world’s largest single-unit hydrogenation reactor was designed by Sinopec Engineering and weighed 3,025 tons. It has an outside diameter of 6.156 meters and a wall of 320-mm thick.
Sinopec also said that a $14.1-billion expansion project at its plant in the Hainan Free Trade Zone, South China would increase the plant’s capacity to 1 million tons/year of ethylene and refined oils. The project is expected to propel downstream industries and economic growth in Hainan.
