Paraxylene plant design with

process selectivity
disproponasi toulene with a
capacity of 300,000 tonnes /
year
By Delta Mutiara
d500122006

Benzene is widely used in

the industry as:
1.Solvent in the extraction
and distillation operations
purposes
2.Raw materials for
manufacture of other
organic chemical
compounds or
intermediate
of products commercial products,
for example: styrene,
cumene cyclohexane, alkyl
benzene, detergent
alkylate, nitrobenzene, and
chlorobenzene.

paraxylene

Paraxylene plant in Indonesia only refinery

paraxylene Pertamina UP IV Cilacap which have
production with a capacity of 270,000 tonnes /
year and began operations in 1990

Toulene and hydrogen

Toulene Import from
Petrochemical Corp of
Singapore, China
Petroleum Inc, Amoco
Chemicals Corp di Thailand
While , hydrogen is
supplied from PT ALIndo
(Air Liquid Indonesia) in
merak banten

Capacity
Esfahan Petrochemical Company : 44,000
tonnes / year
China Petroleum Inc. : 500,000 tonnes /
year.
Pertamina UP IV Cilacap:270,000 tonnes /
year
so , capacity this plant is 300,000
tonnes/year to meet the needs of the
domestic and the remainder in export

Location In Merak, Banten

LAY OUT PLANT AND

EQUIPMENT

Caption:
1. Postal Security
2. Parks
3. Parking Area
4. Office and Hall
5. Diner
6. Polyclinic
7. Mushola
8. libraries
9. Storage reactants
10. The storage of the
product
11. The process Area
12. The area expansion
process
13. Control room
14. Laboratory
15. Warehouse
16. Workshop
17. Local power generation
18. Firefighters
19. Regional utilities
20. Regional waste

LAYOUT EQUIPMENT
Caption
1. Toulene tank
2. Vaporizer
3. Furnace
4. Reactor
5. Flash drum
6. Distilation tower 1
7. Reboiler 1
8. Condenser 1
9. Distilation tower 2
10.Reboiler 2
11.Condenser 2
12.Crystalizer
13.Centrifuge
14.Melter
15.Paraxylene tank

Disproporsionasi Toluene

2 moles of toluene diffuse into the

surface of the catalyst through the
pores, diffusion can be run quickly.
Toluene compound which loses methyl
groups will be benzene and toluene
compound else will receive metylnya
groups formed mixed xylenes (ortho,

Benzene is formed from the reaction of

toluene disproportionation can quickly leave
the surface of the catalyst, followed by
paraxylene that is formed while the o-xylene
and m-xylene longer residence time in the
catalyst (difusivitasnya lower than the
diffusivity of p-xylene) and will undergo
further reaction into p-xylene isomerization
before they leave the surface of the catalyst

 Toluene disproposionasi process

theoretically occurring mixture is
equimolar: 50% benzene and 50%
xylene. But in fact obtained from the
reaction is 37% benzene and 55%
xylene (Mc Ketta, p 257)
(zeolite ZSM-5)
in order to
obtain a high
concentration
of paraxylene
in the mix

Thermodynamic review

PROCESS DIAGRAM