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CASE STUDY

DOW CHEMICAL LHC-9(Light HydroCarbon 9 Unit) Project

  • Owner :

    Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology / The Dow Chemical Company

  • Location :

    Freeport, Texas, USA

  • Scope of Supply :

    Refractory Engineering / Material Supply

Background

Dow Chemical started the construction of a new ethylene production facility(light hydrocarbon unit LHC-9) at Freeport site in June 2014. The facility has a production capacity of approximately 1.5 million tonnes of ethylene per annum. The facility was constructed within the OC-2 block of the Oyster Creek complex at the Freeport site, which earlier housed the company’s chlor-alkali unit II. The site covers an area of approximately 35 acres. The new plant features 8 new steam cracking furnaces, a pressure-assisted flare, a cooling tower, two backup diesel generators and storage tanks.

  • Project Summary

    The front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the project was awarded to Technip in October 2012.
    Technip provided the technology license, FEED and cracking furnaces engineering and procurement for 1,500KTA
    ethane cracker in Freeport, Texas. This is the fourth new grassroots plant of Dow Chemical worldwide that has
    been awarded back-to-back to TechnipFMC in the last 10 years.
    We're awarded for Field Installed Refractory and Ceramic Fiber Modules by TechnipFMC Claremont Office in
    2014, we successfully supplied all materials to the field in Freeport, Texas.
    In 2018, we're awarded again for two(2) additional furnaces expansion project.

  • Participate as

    Materials
    • Monolithic Castable
    • insulating Fire Brick & Mortar
    • Ceramic Fiber Module
    • Ceramic Fiber Blanket
    • Ceramic Fiber Board
    • Calcium Silicate Insulating Board
    • Anchors