Davy Process Technology and Dow Chemical's oxygenated solvents business have licensed their LP Oxo Selector technology to Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy's new oxo alcohols plant in China.
The licence will allow Wison to build an LP Oxo plant with capacity of 125,000t/year of 2-ethylhexanol and 125,000t/year of butanols.
Wison Energy currently operates a 600,000t/year carbon monoxide plant in Nanjing and supplies carbon monoxide, synthesis gas, hydrogen, and methanol to other facilities in the Nanjing Chemical Industry Park.
Additionally, Dow and Wison Energy have also signed a product purchase agreement, wherein Dow will purchase a portion of product over a certain period of time from the new plant.
The Oxo Selector technology is a low-pressure hydroformylation process used to produce butyraldehydes, isobutyraldehydes, a plasticiser alcohol, C12-C15 surfactant range alcohols and co-monomer grade octene-1.
