“China’s Heart” Beating in Big Ethylene Plant
Recently, the core equipment of 1000KTA ethylene plant of ZRCC, the large propylene refrigeration compressor, has being operated for more than 1000 days. It means that this homemade compressor unit with complete intellectual property rights has successfully broken the situations of technological monopoly by foreign enterprises, which has significant meaning for propelling the development of ethylene industry in China.
It’s said that the localization task of this compressor was undertaken by ZRCC and Shenyang Blower Works Group Corporation. After unremitting endeavour of the Chinese team, the design, manufacture, assembly and start-up of this unit are successfully completed with a total investment of 69 million Yuan, which decreased By 47% as against to 0.13 billion Yuan imported unit of the same kind.
It’s known that two performance tests were conducted after the start-up of the unit and 15 technical innovations have been achieved. Furthermore, the operation of this unit is very stable and the guarantees of all process parameters have been met, so this unit can fully meet the operation requirements of 1000KTA ethylene plant.
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2013-04-01