【Ten Years of Great Progress in Chemical Technology】056: The first domestic industrial demonstration plant for producing 1,000 tons of high-regularity polybutene-1 was successfully commissioned between 2005 and 2020
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Ten years of rapid development in chemical technology – praise for China’s prosperity and strength. This is just a starting point; more participation from everyone will make things even more lively. HaiChuan becomes even better with you here; we welcome everyone to participate more actively in the forum discussions. Everyone should pay attention to safety and know how to handle emergencies. ********************************************* On February 8, 2022, the 3,000-ton/year industrial demonstration plant for high-regularity polybutene-1, developed with the technical team from the Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Technology, was successfully put into operation at Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Complex, operating at full capacity for 72 hours in a continuous and stable manner. This successful drive marks a significant advancement by Sinopec in the field of high-end synthetic new materials, effectively filling a technical gap in China. Sinopec has become the fourth company in the world and the first in China to possess the capability for continuous, stable production of polybutylene-1, thereby breaking the long-standing monopoly of foreign products in this high-performance material market and effectively elevating Sinopec’s technical level in polyolefin production.
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Polybutylene-1 is known as the \"gold of plastics\"; it boasts excellent creep resistance, stress cracking resistance, and impact strength, making it suitable for use in a wide range of applications. China lacks similar homogeneous bulk olefin polymerization technologies; the technical and product barriers in this area have yet to be overcome, and domestic high-end polybutene-1 technologies and products have long been under foreign monopoly. The Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Technology focuses on addressing **needs as a guiding principle, making full use of the advantages of large-scale collaborative efforts in the field of new materials. It brings together researchers from various units such as the New Product Development Institute, the Materials Science Institute, the Plastic Processing Institute, and the Polypropylene Institute to form joint task forces for research and development. Since 2010, efforts have been made to overcome various scientific and technical challenges in areas such as the fundamental theoretical research on the structure-activity relationship of polybutylene-1, high-performance catalyst technologies, homogeneous bulk olefin polymerization techniques, high-end products based on polybutylene-1, and advanced polymer devolatilization technologies. Process packages were developed as a result of these efforts, and through joint development with five organizations—including Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Co., SEI, East China University of Science and Technology, and Qingdao Institute of Safety Engineering—the complete set of polybutylene-1 technologies was successfully implemented at Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Co. This technology breaks the monopoly of foreign technologies and products, achieving the first domestic technological breakthrough.