DuPont Clean Technologies (Wilminton, Del.; www.cleantechnologies.dupont.com) announced that Dangote Oil Refinery Company Ltd (Dangote) has commissioned a range of advanced proprietary equipment from DuPont for the construction of a new refinery in Lekki, near Nigeria’s capital, Lagos. Construction of the new refinery is part of a strategy to boost national Nigerian refinery production. The new refinery is set to become the largest single-train refinery in the world and the complex will include a petrochemical plant, a fertilizer plant and a subsea pipeline project.
DuPont will be supplying Dangote with proprietary equipment for Stratco alkylation unit, Mecs sulfuric acid regeneration (SAR) unit, Mecs DynaWave sulfur recovery unit (SRU) tail gas scrubbing, and Belco EDV fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) stack scrubbing that will help Dangote meet gasoline pool octane and emissions requirements.
“We are delighted to be supporting Dangote on a project that is of such critical importance to creating economic growth and opportunity in Nigeria,” said Eli Ben-Shoshan, global business leader, DuPont Clean Technologies. “Our aim is always to enable our customers to meet their emissions targets easily and efficiently with the help of cost-effective technologies and services that offer them value and flexibility while minimizing the impact on the environment.”
The new 27,000 bbl/d alkylation unit and the 260 m.t./d SAR unit will allow the facility to produce high-octane, low-sulfur, low-RVP alkylate with zero olefins. Designed to meet world standards for particulate matter and SOx emissions, the DynaWave wet gas scrubber will ensure full-time compliance with emissions regulations on both 115 ton per day SRUs, and the BELCO® EDV® wet gas scrubber will reduce the stack emissions from the FCCU as well as provide a purge treatment to condition the scrubber effluent. Both of the SRUs and the FCCU are supplied by other licensors.
With a production capacity of 650,000 bbl/d, the new refinery, targeted for completion in the last quarter of 2019, will boost Nigeria’s limited domestic refining production.