Crucial positions require compact solutions
When Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company (SPC) revamped its ethylene oxide plant in Shanghai, solutions were needed for critical heat exchanger positions within the facility’s absorption-stripping system. Size was a determining factor. For SPC, a solution from Alfa Laval requiring minimum space and offering high efficiency provided the answer for both positions.
DATE 2023-11-28Systems like these have two critical heat exchanger positions – the interchanger and the lean cooler. The interchanger recovers heat at the bottom of the stripper, while the lean cooler reduces the temperature of the regenerated absorption medium before re-entering the absorption tower. Both positions are extremely important to system capacity and efficiency.
Alfa Laval has sold units to EO/EG applications for over 20 years and to all the various, main processes. By using Compabloc, the benefits of an all-welded product in combination with high efficiency saves EO/EG producers money and maintenance. More than 50 Compabloc units are in use within EO/EG plants today.
The compact, fully welded Compabloc heat exchanger is designed to operate with a wide range of aggressive media and at high temperatures and pressures.
Customer's voice
We have great confidence in Alfa Laval products because we have been using them for more than 20 years.
Mr Chen, Equipment Manager of the EO/EG Plant