【Major Equipment in the Chemical Equipment Industry】293 – China’s first large-scale plate-and-shell heat exchanger for a 650,000-ton/year phenol propylene plant

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Safety first! Prevention first! Reply reward! ---------------------------------------------- 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 sector. Here, we have compiled some of the achievements and breakthroughs made by Chinese equipment manufacturers in terms of larger-scale production and greater use of domestic equipment. We invite everyone to share their insights and discuss these topics together; let’s cheer for Made in China and support the development of chemical processing equipment! On December 20, 2021, the first domestically produced large plate-and-shell heat exchanger for phenol propylene units, with an annual capacity of 650,000 tons – namely the overhead condenser of the pre-vaporization flash tower – was put into operation. This device was developed independently by Gansu Lanke Petrochemical High-Tech Equipment Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (hereinafter referred to as “Lanke High-Tech”), marking a new chapter in the localization of such large plate-and-shell heat exchangers for phenol propylene units.