【MMA】MMA technology is set for an upgrade, which could benefit MTBE
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The last edit to this post was made by Laborer 1985 on 2016-3-1 08:01. MMA is an important chemical raw material; however, due to technical barriers, most domestic manufacturers still use the outdated propylene cyanohydrin production method. As domestic technology companies make breakthroughs, the MMA production technique based on the butane series is likely to be adopted on a wider scale, which could help boost the use of MTBE in the chemical industry.
MMA, whose Chinese name is methyl methacrylate, is an important chemical raw material and the monomer used to produce the transparent plastic polymethyl methacrylate (plexiglass, PMMA). Since the industrialization of MMA, the production technology used has mainly been the acrylonitrile hydroformylation (ACH) method. On the one hand, due to the rapid increase in demand for MMA, the growth rate of acrylonitrile cannot keep up with the development of MMA ； On the other hand, the traditional ACH method causes severe environmental pollution and cannot meet environmental protection requirements. To change this situation, new technologies for producing MMA via the C4 route have been gradually developed.
What is the total investment in the MMA project? Thank you