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Shell To Scale Up Diphenyl Carbonate

by Alexander H. Tullo
December 19, 2011 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 89, Issue 51

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Credit: Shell
Shell’s diphenyl carbonate process development facility in Houston. DPC is a polycarbonate intermediate.
Credit: Shell

Shell Chemicals is building a 500-metric-ton-per-day facility on Jurong Island, Singapore, to demonstrate its process for making diphenyl carbonate. Diphenyl carbonate is reacted with bisphenol A to produce polycarbonate. The process is an alternative to making polycarbonate out of bisphenol A and the toxic gas phosgene.

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