【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Equipment】Anqing Petrochemical’s 18-meter Reactor-Sedimentator with the Largest Diameter in China from 1959 to 2022
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Witness the decade-long rapid development of chemical processing equipment; praise the prosperity and strength of modern China. Replies will be rewarded – discussions are welcome. ------------------------------------------- In 2022, Ningbo Engineering Company carried out on-site manufacturing at the construction site of Anqing Petrochemical’s refinery conversion project of the 3 million tons per year heavy oil catalytic unit, for the “two key components” – the reaction settler and the regenerator. Among these, the reaction settler, with a maximum diameter of 18 meters and a weight of 1,007 tons, is currently the largest custom-made equipment of its kind in China； The regenerator, whose maximum cylinder diameter reaches 17.2 meters, is also the regenerator with the largest diameter among similar installations in China at present.
On August 4, 2022, over 6,000 construction workers worked hard under the scorching heat at the construction site of the Sinopec Anqing Petrochemical Refining and Conversion Project restructuring. The total investment in this project is 8.6 billion yuan. It is one of Sinopec’s “Ten Dragon” technology development projects. The core unit of this project, an oil residue catalytic cracking unit with an annual capacity of 3 million tons, utilizes RTC technology, which represents Sinopec’s latest proprietary technology. RTC technology employs a new process route to reduce the production of refined products and maximize the yield of light olefins and aromatic feedstocks. The project will serve as a model for facilitating the transformation of domestic traditional fuel-based refineries into chemical-based refineries, and it will also foster the development of a number of enterprises in the fields of mid-to-high-end synthetic materials, synthetic resins, and fine chemicals.