Process technology and production economics for conventional stream cracking as well as propane dehydro, olefin metathesis, deep catalytic cracking and selective C4/C5 cracking. Supply/demand forecasts for ethylene and propylene are also provided.
The process technology and production economics for crude and purified acrylic acid as well as butyl and ethyl acrylate. Supply/demand forecasts out to 2005 are also presented.
The process technology and production economics of natural fatty acids, fatty amines, fatty alcohols, and natural linear alcohols are presented. The production economics of synthetic detergent range alcohols are provided as basis for comparison.
Information on prices, new capacity update, new developments in the market and industry structure (e.g., M&A), for January to April of 2001 for each geographic region
Provides a comprehensive analysis of the key market issues expected to affect the future profitability of Asian refineries and the availability of petrochemical feedstocks.