First Application of a New Process for Producing Linear Alpha-Olef ins: Base Stock for Plastics and Detergents

摘要

They are used to make shopping bags, detergents or lubricants: linear alpha-olefins (LAOs) have many applications in the chemical industry. They have a broad range of hydrocarbons of different lengths, based on a single molecule: ethylene. Linde, with the Saudi-Arabian company SABIC, has developed a technologically simple and particularly economical process for producing LAOs, which is now realized in a commercial plant.