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UOP Propylene Recovery Unit

Today, propylene recovery from refinery streams is being increasingly used to supply downstream users with polymer-grade propylene for petrochemical applications. To meet polymer-grade specifications, the stream must be concentrated to a minimum of 99.5 % propylene and be essentially free of di-olefins and acetylenic species.

To allow you to recover polymer-grade propylene as economically as possible, a UOP Propylene Recovery Unit (PRU) combines proprietary UOP process equipment such as MD distillation trays and High Flux tubing with propylene treating adsorbents.

Approximately 33% of world propylene production is currently contained in FCC and RCC by-product streams. The UOP PRU system gives you the opportunity to cost-effectively upgrade low-value C3/C4 by-product by recovering high-value polymer-grade propylene. You can also use the PRU system to upgrade existing refinery-grade and chemical-grade propylene to polymer-grade propylene.

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