【Major Industrial Equipment in the Chemical Industry】006 – Qinzhou-made cooling water towers and cooling oil towers with a diameter of 12,000 for Guangdong’s refining and chemical industry

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The past decade has been a period of rapid development for China’s chemical industry, marked by the emergence of many new processes, products, and equipment. There has also been significant progress in China’s chemical processing equipment, which has contributed to the swift advancement of the petrochemical industry. Here, we have compiled some of the achievements and breakthroughs made by Chinese equipment manufacturers in terms of larger-scale and domestically produced equipment. We welcome everyone to share, discuss, and exchange ideas on this topic. ************************************ Quench towers and quench oil towers are key equipment in ethylene plants; they are responsible for rapidly cooling the pyrolysis gas, which reaches temperatures of nearly 900°C, in these plants. Among them, the quench water tower is 61.83 meters tall and weighs 1,250 tons, while the quench oil tower is 54.61 meters tall and weighs 1,200 tons. Both towers were manufactured at Global Six Equipment Manufacturing Company, located in Qinzhou Port, Guangxi. Taking advantage of the deep-water docks at the port, they were loaded onto ships as a whole after completion and transported to the construction site of the petrochemical integration project in Guangdong.