原标题：壳牌推进美国乙烯项目建设

壳牌（Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC）已在其石化厂完成了主要设备的安装，该石化厂规划时间长，位于俄亥俄河在宾夕法尼亚州比弗县波特镇（PotterTown.），该镇位于匹兹堡西北约30英里处。

壳牌说，这台2000吨、87米高的急冷塔是宾夕法尼亚州石油化工厂最大的设备，并于10月7日吊装就位。

壳牌公司说，自从2017年11月乙烯装置开工后，已经吊装就位PE装置中三台反应器中的两台，并铺设了约15英里的冷却水、消防、排污等地下管网系统。

壳牌阿巴拉契亚石化厂将采用附近廉价的Marcellus和Utica页岩乙烷生产乙烯和PE，该厂将包括一个乙烷裂解装置，乙烯生产能力约为150万吨/年，三个PE装置生产总能力为160万吨/年，以及公用工程如电力、蒸汽、储运、冷却水、水处理、火炬、和办公室等。

经营者介绍，两个PE装置将生产高密度PE颗粒，而第三个PE单元将生产线性低密度聚乙烯颗粒。

该公司目前还将建造一座274米的冷却塔、铁路和货车卡车装载设施、一个水处理厂、一座办公楼和一个实验室。

壳牌表示，该石化厂将按照计划投入商业运行。

Shell unit advances construction at Appalachian ethylene complex

Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC has completed installation of major equipment at its long-planned grassroots petrochemical complex currently under construction along the Ohio River in Potter Township, Beaver County, Pa., about 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

The heavy lift of the 2,000-tonne, 87-m tall quench tower—the largest piece of equipment for the Pennsylvania petrochemicals complex—was undertaken on Oct. 7 and is now completed, Shell said.

Since start of main construction on the complex in November 2017, Shell said it also has safely erected two of three reactors associated with the planned polyethylene (PE) units as well as laid about 15 miles of underground pipe for the cooling, firewater, and drainage systems.

Designed to produce ethylene and PE from nearby supplies of low-cost Marcellus and Utica shale ethane, Shell’s Appalachian petrochemical complex will include an ethane cracker with an average ethylene production capacity of about 1.5 million tonnes/year, three PE units with a combined production of 1.6 million tpy, as well as associated installations for power and steam generation, storage, logistics, cooling water and water treatment, emergency flare, and offices.

Two of the complex’s PE units will manufacture high-density PE grades of pellets, while a third PE unit will produce linear low-density polyethylene pellets, the operator said.

The company also is currently building a 274-m cooling tower, rail and truck-loading facilities, a water treatment plant, an office building, and a laboratory at the site.

Shell said the complex remains on schedule to begin commercial production early in the next decade.返回搜狐，查看更多

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