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Sasol is upping octene output

January 23, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 4

After delays, Sasol has begun construction of a new, 100,000-metric-ton-per-year octene plant in Secunda, South Africa. The plant's technology is based on the hydroformylation of 1-heptene into 1-octanol followed by dehydration into 1-octene. The unit, expected to open during the second half of 2007, will double the company's capacity for the product. Linde, which has previously built five α-olefins plants at Secunda, has been awarded the engineering and construction project. Octene is used primarily as a comonomer with ethylene to make polyethylene.

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