OREANDA-NEWS. The company goes ahead with construction of pentane-hexane fraction isomerization plant with fresh feed rate 434 metric tons per year.

Isomerization process will allow the company to produce isomerate which is a high-octane number component for blending with high pressure of saturated vapors for the process of manufacturing of commercial gasoline agreeable to technical regulations standards. The in-house high-octane number component will make it possible to increase output of such environmentally safe gasolines as Euro-4 and Euro-5 (so far the company receives the high-octane number, low-sulphur isopentane component from Sterlitamak petrochemical plant providing it with feedstock).

Adding the isomerate into gasolines improves performance characteristics of engines. This component will allow saturated vapors pressure to be increased without significant lowering of octane number. Besides, the isomerate contains no aromatics, benzene and sulphur, which provides the possibility of reducing of harmful substances content in exhaust gas of a car and mitigates environmental impact.

The plant is designed in such a way as to minimize environmental emissions and provide maximum octane number of the final product. Nonpolluting European technology Axens is going to be used. Implementation and use of low temperature isomerization will provide industrial safety and resource saving.

The project realization is also important in the context of social benefit: putting the isomerization plant into operation will create 50 additional job vacancies.

The project of the plant construction is drawing towards completion. The first vessel - a reactor of the feed hydrotreating unit - has been recently installed at site. The new plant is going to be added to the refinery production chain of JSC “Gazprom neftekhim Salavat” in 2015.

For information: JSC “Gazprom neftekhim Salavat” is one of the Russia's largest oil refining and petrochemical industrial complexes. It performs the complete cycle of raw hydrocarbons processing. Among the company's output are gasolines, diesel fuel, kerosene, other oil products, liquefied gases, butyl alcohols, plasticizers, polyethylene, polystyrene, ammonia, urea etc. JSC “Gazprom neftekhim Salavat” is the largest Russian exporter. The company modifies the operating plants and builds new ones, implements automatic process control systems and improves management structure in order to optimize the company's business.