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Name
INEOS Innovene S
Owner
/ Ineos Technologies (Holdings) Ltd
Brand
Technology is registered for Trademark Innovene™ S
Process
Polyethylene processes
Type
Loop Reactor Slurry Polymerization of Ethylene
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Description

History

Innovene S technology was first developed by Solvay in the 1960s, and offered for license by INEOS from 2005.  Innovene has been for years the name of BP's polyethylene technology[1,2]

By Dec 2005, INEOS announced to have completed the purchase of BP's Innovene business for $9bn, said to fit well with the INEOS strategy to create a petrochemical company. Only ten months later, INEOS decided to drop the Innovene name, rebranding the business activities into Ineos Refining, Ineos Olefins, Ineos Polyolefins, Ineos Olefins & Polymers USA, Ineos Nitriles, Ineos Technologies, and Ineos Oligomers[3].

By June 2015, INEOS claims to have 7,5 million tonnes annually licensed in 9 years, 7 Ineos slurry lines and licensees for a total of 2.1 million tonnes and 16 lines in design or construction stage for a total of more than 6 million tonnes[4].  

Meanwhile, Ineos Technologies has stopped licensing activities.  

Process Description

The Innovene™ S process utilises proprietary vertical slurry loop reactors in a two reactor system providing easy and efficient transitions between bimodal and monomodal product operations. Simplified degassing, no centrifuges and a robust low energy diluent recycle combine to provide outstanding campaign­-to­-campaign stability with minimal wide­-specification product and no wax or oligomers generation[1,4].

The process features are claimed to be[4]

  • Routine swing monomodal/bimodal/Cr-catalyst operations
  • Quick transitions
  • No wax generation
  • Low Capex & Opex

Products

Innovene™ S technology is suitable for the production of a range of LLDPE and HDPE products, such as C4-LLDPE, mLLDPE, mHDPE, Cr-HDPE, and Bimodal HDPE going into a variety of applications such as film, blow molding, injection molding, pipe & conduits, textile, W&C, geomembranes and rotomolding[4].

References

  1. BUSINESS MAGAZINE FOR INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISES, xx edition 2015, In demand PE Technologies, Ineos Technologies.
  2. CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS, 30th Jan 2006, Ineos changing Innovene name.
  3. INEOS, Press Releases, 16th Dec 2005, INEOS completes purchase of BP's Innovene business for $9bn.
  4. Dr. Fabian Siberdt, Jun 2015, Innovene™ G & S technologies: Recent advances and global positioning, PEPP 2015, Zürich.
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