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Mega Methanol, DME: BP, DuPont, Haldor Topsøe
Round Out Back-to-Back Workshop Programs
In two back-to-back workshops, Jan. 19-20, Ron Sills,
GTL program manager of global gas technology at BP; Joseph
Creazzo, technical service engineer at DuPont; and Neils
Udengaard at Haldor Topsøe will join six other speakers
to discuss a new era for natural gas conversion as methanol
plants double and quadruple in size and dimethyl ether (DME)
sweeps into Asian LPG markets.
The first workshop Jan. 19 is entitled, Mega-Methanol:
Opening New Markets and the second, Jan. 20, is entitled
DME: Getting to 400 Million Tons per Year. http://www.syngasrefiner.com/dme.
The registration fee to attend one is $397, for both, $597.
Both will be held at Zeus' headquarters, 2424 Wilcrest Dr,
Suite 100, Houston, TX 77042.
We are entering the golden age of natural gas conversion,
says analyst Bob Nimocks, president of Zeus Development
Corporation. With massively larger plants accessing world
markets, methanol is transforming from solely a chemical
to a fuel and chemical marketplace.
One of the first nations where this transformation is taking
place is China where Toyo Engineering Corporation was awarded
earlier this year a contract to build a 110,000-mt/y fuel-grade
dimethyl ether (DME) plant for the Luthianhua Group in Luzhou.
Hiroshi Fukuyama, licensing manager at Toyo will describe
during the workshop Toyo's DME technology features the their
experience in China.
Nearly one million metric tons per year of DME production
capacity are under construction, the largest plant in Iran,
where Haldor Topsøe and Lurgi are also working on
mega-scale methanol projects. The plants will produce DME
to replace LPG and produce olefins to manufacture polymers
for plastics.
Neils Udengaard of Haldor Topsøe; Jim Andersen,
light olefins manager at UOP; and Lowell Fraley of Starchem,
who is working with Lurgi and HHI on a methanol plantship
design, are discussing the progress of their designs and
conversion potential during the two workshops.
The full agenda can be viewed at http://www.syngasrefiner.com/dme/agenda.asp.
Registration can be made online at https://www.zeusdevelopment.com/secure/dme/register.asp.
For more information, contact
, Zeus Development Corporation at 713-952-9577.
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