LyondellBasell’s Spheripol Technology Dominates The Polypropylene Production Technology
The Future of the Polypropylene Industry to 2015: Investment Opportunities, Analysis and Forecasts of All Active and Planned Polypropylene Plants is an in-depth report on the global polypropylene industry. The report presents detailed analysis and forecasts of the global polypropylene plants capacity in all the major regions and countries of the world. It includes analysis of total polypropylene plant capacity by key feedstock, process and technology. Capacity share analysis of major polypropylene producers by region and country is also included in this comprehensive report covering all the major parameters for all the major regions of the world. ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/The-Future-of-the-Polypropylene-Industry-to-2015-Investment-Opportunities-Analysis-and-Forecasts-of-All-Active-and-Planned-Polypropylene-Plants.html )
Asia Pacific Region Will Have The Most Polypropylene Capacity Additions To 2015
The Asia Pacific region has more than ten million tons of planned capacity additions accounting for more than 50% of the global planned capacity additions until 2015. The demand growth in rapidly developing economies of China and India are the reasons for the rapid capacity build up in the region. These two countries have more than seven million tons of planned capacity additions until 2015, accounting for more than 70% of the planned capacity additions in the Asia Pacific region. China is the largest consumer and importer of polypropylene in the world. The demand growth in the country has been more than 15% per annum for the past decade and has an import dependence of more than 30% per annum. The need to meet rising demand and reduce the import dependence has led to more than four million tons of planned capacity additions in the country from 2009 to 2015. Read more
Automation Infatuation-mobile Work Place Automation Makes Chemical Plant Operations More Reliable and Efficient
Throughout the chemical process industry, it’s difficult to think about plant monitoring without visualizing personnel on daily rounds laboriously filling out paper log sheets. Besides being a manual-intensive routine, this traditional monitoring approach primarily focuses only on documentation. Typically stored in filing cabinets, field data currently collected by most plants is lifeless, rarely reviewed for plant performance monitoring and trouble shooting. However, this outmoded approach is quickly giving way to an electronic monitoring system outside of the control room. Now plant operations data are wirelessly gathered on-site with handhelds, then fed into a hosted Web-based system. This system allows quick operational decisions based on the most accurate information, to save time and money. The current method’s only benefit is to ensure that operators actually make the rounds of equipment observation/inspection. Even then, operators tend to pencil-whip data without really observing the plant equipment. Since supervisors are busy with routine shift work, even experienced operators fail to recognize pit fall readings and prevent a plant shutdown or unsafe situation.
Enter the Web-based system, hosted software, wireless handhelds and a “behind-the-scenes” team of process engineers and information technology (IT) professionals. With this integrated system functioning 24/7/365, calculations are constantly being run (not triggered) in the background to detect any equipment abnormalities and in turn notifying the operations supervisor to take action.