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The functional knowledge and vast experiences of  Enex consultants extracted from long and productive careers, covers all areas of basic chemicals and plastics manufacture, markets, technologies and industry competitive structures.   

EXAMPLE PROGRAMS COMPLETED BY ENEX: 

Olefins plant design / operations / optimization / economics

      • Pipeline operations & economics
      • Compressibility factors / metering improvements
      • Salt dome & surface storage
      • Acetylene conversion and recovery
      • Acetylene Black Production � Plant design
      • Feasibility studies
      • Raw material  optimization

Polyolefins - PE / LDPE / LLDPE / HDPE / PP

      • Technologies Studies
      • Feasibility studies
      • Competitive analyses - benchmarking
      • Acquisition support

Polyoxymethylene (POM)

      • Technologies Studies
      • Engineering Plant Expansion and Improvement
      • Raw materials Optimization

 Ethylene Oxide

      • Technology studies
      • Competitive economics
      • World Markets
      • Engineering programs

 Propylene Oxide

      • Technology studies
      • PO / styrene
      • PO / MTBE
      • Competitive economics
      • World Markets
      • Engineering programs

 C4 / C5 Olefins

      • Disposition investigations  - maximizing values
      • Technology investigations
      • Feasibility studies

Methanol        

      • World production
      • Competitive structures
      • Application studies

 MTBE

      • Technology
      • Competitive structures
      • Propylene oxide / MTBE co-production evaluations

 Acetic Acid / VAM

      • Technology studies
      • Competitive economics
      • World Markets

 Basic Aromatics (other than cumene /phenol)

 BTX

      • Recovery technology /economics / markets
      • Refinery streams
      • Pyrolysis gasolines
      • Demand & value forecasting
      • Multi-client study programs
      • Industry effects of gasoline reformulation
      • Alternate refining schemes
      • Avoid BTX production
      • Toluene Recovery / economics
      • Toluene hydrodealkylation
      • Para-xylene recovery / economics

 Cyclohexane

      • Demand & value forecasting
      • Technology
      • Competitive economics
      • Application economics (Nylon & intermediates - competitive to  phenol)
      • Engineering for cost estimates

STYRENE   / Polystyrene

      • Acquisition Programs
      • Market studies
      • Demand & value forecasting
      • Technology studies - processes / catalysts / plant improvements /
      • expansion studies
      • EB recovery from streams by fractionation
      • EB from low concentration refinery ethylene streams
      • Propylene oxide / styrene manufacture
      • Competitive studies - industry benchmarking
        • Plant relocation studies
        • Engineering for cost estimates
        • Environmental programs

 Other . . .

Conceptual and design engineering, technology selections, expansion costs, market evaluations, competitive assessments, acquisition analyses, etc. have been completed for a very wide range of base and derivative chemicals.  Some recent projects included the following product areas:

  • Acrylonitrile
  • Adiponitrile
  • Ammonia
  • Caprolactam
  • Glycol ethers
  • Incinerator operations
  • Plasticizers
  • Refinery operations
  • Salt dome Operations
  • Ethylene Metering & storage
  • Propylene Metering & storage
  • Natural gas Metering & storage

                           

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