Iran’s Avicenna Petrochemical Company had a new six million dollar xylene separation tower installed at its facilities located in the Bandar Petrochemical Complex (BIPC), reported IRNA.
The tower will separate xylene combinations to be used as feedstock for the production of paraxylenes, reported. The 266-ton tower is comprised of three separate sections and stands 121.6 meters high. Its inside heats up to 254 to 297 degrees.
BIPC is located in the Special Petrochemical Economic Zone (SPEZ), located on a 1,700-hectare plot of land in the Persian Gulf. The complex’s production capacity is 4.3 million tons of petrochemicals annually. Its major products are propylene, butane, pentane, ethylene, propylene, polypropylene and mixed xylenes.
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