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  2. Shell Chemicals - Wikipedia

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    Shell Chemicals is the petrochemicals arm of Shell plc.The name "Shell Chemicals" refers to the nearly seventy companies engaged in chemicals businesses for Shell, which together make up one of the largest petrochemical producers in the world.

  3. Ethylene oxide - Wikipedia

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    Ethylene oxide scrubber: After the gaseous stream from the main reactor, containing ethylene oxide (1–2%) and CO 2 (5%), is cooled, it is then passed to the ethylene oxide scrubber. Here, water is used as the scrubbing media which scrubs away majority of ethylene oxide along with some amounts of CO 2 , N 2 , CH 2 =CH 2 , CH 4 and aldehydes ...

  4. Baton Rouge Refinery - Wikipedia

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    ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the sixth-largest oil refinery in the United States and seventeenth-largest in the world, [1] with an input capacity of 540,000 barrels (86,000 m 3) per day as of January 1, 2020. [2]

  5. Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia engaged in a tax competition for the plant. In 2012, Pennsylvania structured a deal requiring Shell to invest at least $1 billion in Pennsylvania and create at least 2,500 construction jobs in exchange for a 25-year tax incentive of $66 million per year and tied to production, reducing Shell's tax by up to 20 per cent.

  6. Petrochemical - Wikipedia

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    Petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia. Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems [1]) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or renewable sources such as maize, palm fruit or sugar cane.

  7. Ethylene - Wikipedia

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    In the IUPAC system, the name ethylene is reserved for the divalent group -CH 2 CH 2-. Hence, names like ethylene oxide and ethylene dibromide are permitted, but the use of the name ethylene for the two-carbon alkene is not. Nevertheless, use of the name ethylene for H 2 C=CH 2 (and propylene for H 2 C=CHCH 3) is still prevalent among chemists ...

  8. Nonylphenol - Wikipedia

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    To make NPEs, manufacturers treat NP with ethylene oxide under basic conditions. [12] Since its discovery in 1940, nonylphenol production has increased exponentially, and between 100 and 500 million pounds of nonylphenol are produced globally every year, [ 12 ] [ 16 ] meeting the definition of High Production Volume Chemicals .

  9. Ineos - Wikipedia

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    In 1998, Ratcliffe, then a director of Inspec, established Ineos for the purpose of purchasing Inspec's ethylene oxide facility in Antwerp, Belgium. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The £84 million purchase was funded by three entities: the Scottish investment house Murray Johnstone (£10 million), Ineos management (£1.5 million), and the investment bank BT ...