This techno-economic report offers a review on conventional routes to phosphoric acid and process descriptions for several licensors of phosphoric acid technologies. The report also provides economics developed for several different global locations (USGC, China, and the Middle East) for the dihydrate, hemihydrate, purified wet phosphoric acid, and thermal phosphoric acid.

The chemistry, process technology and production economics for purified terephthalic acid (PTA) are presented.  Conventional PTA technology is described along with several improved PTA technologies offered for license.  Licensors have advanced the integration of heat recovery, energy recovery, and water usage to provide measurable improvements over the conventional process.  Cost of production estimates for technologies on both a USGC & regional basis are provided as well as regional PTA supply and demand.

This report provides a deep technical review of the commercial and developing acrylonitrile technologies.  The economics of the propylene, propane and glycerol ammoxidation processes have been estimated for acrylonitrile plants located in the United States, Western Europe, South-East Asia and China, where capacity is increasing rapidly.  As about a million tons of new capacity is expected to come on stream between 2014 and 2019, a high-level analysis of the business and strategic considerations as well as the technology availability from the perspective of a company entering or expanding into the acrylonitrile market has been included in this report. This analysis is underpinned by a review of end-use sector consumption as well as regional market dynamics.

This report reviews the current and future developments in the small-scale gas to liquids technologies that utilize stranded or associated natural gas as feedstock.  Detailed process descriptions and comparative process economics are included