Bio Propylene Production Business

Description:

Bio Propylene Production Business. Bio-Based Poly Propylene (PP) Manufacturing Plant

Propylene, has never been naturally directly produced by microorganisms and therefore, direct bio-production of propylene requires an artificial metabolic pathway. 

The largest source of propylene in the chemical industry is coproduction from naphtha or liquefied petroleum gas in ethylene steam crackers. The second largest amount of propylene comes from refineries as a byproduct from fluidized catalytic cracker (FCC) units that are operated for gasoline production.

Biopolypropylene is a thermoplastic polymer commonly used in the packaging industry. Other uses include textiles, bottles, cube stickers, and even polymer banknotes. Because polypropylene shares many properties with polyethylene, they are commonly employed for similar uses. Polypropylene is especially resistant to fatigue, which is ideal for mobile plastic parts. Conventional polypropylene is made from petroleum in a process which results in large amounts of greenhouse gases. However, an alternative process has been developed which allows for its synthesis from sugar cane. No natural microorganism exists to convert renewable resources into propylene. 

Application

Propylene is mainly used to manufacture polypropylene plastics for the packaging and the automobile industries. Conventional process Propylene production in refineries.

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