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Fatty Alcohol Plant

Brief Overview
 

Capacity:

30,000 Tons/Year
 

Technology:

Lurgi design and technology
 

Built:

1981 (Rebuilt, most of the equipment were new in 1981)

Major Upgrades:

- New Hydrogen Reformer Plant
- Additional acid preheater
- New Fatty Acid feed pump
- New Nozzle Centrifuges
- New Decanter Centrifuge
- Changed feedstock to manufacture all product as C12/14 fatty alcohol 1995
 

Raw Materials:

- Fatty acid
- Natural gas
- Cu/Cr catalyst
 

Products Produced:

- Fatty alcohol
- NCE grade (C12/14)

Documentation:

Available

Process Description

Fatty Alcohol is manufactured in a high pressure reactor (300 degC & 300 barg) from Fatty acid and Hydrogen in the prescence of a Cu/Cr catalyst. The Hydrogen is made in a Gas Reformer where Natural gas and steam are converted into high purity Hydrogen over a high temperature catalyst. The crude Fatty alcohol is refined by distillation to give the required C12/14 Fatty alcohol product.