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Pakistan’s PARCO To Produce Cleaner-Burning
Transportation Fuels Using Honeywell Technologies
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced that
Pak-Arab Refinery Limited (PARCO) will
use technologies from Honeywell UOP and
Honeywell Process Solutions to upgrade its
Mid-Country Refinery near Multan, Pakistan,
enabling it to meet growing domestic demand
for cleaner-burning fuels. isomerization option available today. It
upgrades light naphtha to produce isomerate,
a cleaner gasoline blend-stock that contains
no benzene, aromatics or olefins. The process
uses Honeywell UOP’s portfolio of proven,
high-activity isomerization and benzene
saturation catalysts.
The project’s Honeywell solutions will include
licensing, basic engineering design and other
associated services for a modular Penex™
isomerization unit, which will help make
cleaner-burning high-octane gasoline, and
a modular Polybed™ PSA system, which
will provide a reliable source of high-purity
hydrogen. In addition, the project will include
automation and controls from Honeywell
Process Solutions. The Polybed PSA process uses proprietary
Honeywell UOP adsorbents to remove
impurities at high pressure from hydrogen-
containing process streams, allowing
hydrogen to be recovered and upgraded to
more than 99.9 percent purity to meet refining
needs. In addition to recovering and purifying
hydrogen from steam reformers and refinery
off-gases, the Polybed PSA system can be
used to produce hydrogen from other sources
such as ethylene off-gas, methanol off-gas
and partial-oxidation synthesis gas.
“These Honeywell technologies will address
the increasingly urgent need for low-emission
transportation fuels under the Pakistani
government’s tightening environmental
regulations,” said Mike Millard, vice president
and general manager of Honeywell UOP’s
Process Technology and Equipment business.
“PARCO chose to have these technologies
delivered as modular equipment rather than
in-field construction for faster startup, higher
quality and better unit performance.”
The Penex process is the highest-performing
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The facility also will use Honeywell’s Experion
Process Knowledge System (PKS), which
uses a unified automation system and
advanced software applications to increase
operator productivity and profitability.
PARCO chose Honeywell’s technology due
to its long record of experience with the
company, its proven record of success in
Pakistan and its modularization capability for
rapid project implementation.