Cooper River plant efficiency
Our step out technology has lower greenhouse gas, liquid and solid waste emissions than conventional technologies. Under a $200m modernization, this technology was installed in our Cooper River facility in South Carolina, USA.
A $200 million dollar modernization of our Cooper River facility in 2017 improved separation technology and heat recovery, reducing power consumption by over 251 per cent and CO2 emissions from PTA production by 75,000 tons per year.
The project included the start-up of a new state-of-the-art oxidation reactor, the largest in the U.S. at the time, and an important unit for processing the PTA the business produces. We introduced this element of our latest generation PTA technology in our Zhuhai, China, facility in 2015 and installed it across our global asset base in the years that followed.
1: Derived from INEOS Aromatics internal analysis. Data in this internal analysis was derived from INEOS Aromatics’ actual operating data from its Cooper River PTA manufacturing facility.