Polyethylene - Economics

INEOS Technologies offers polyethylene processes with the benefit of low capital cost and low operating cost coupled with the widest product range available.

INEOS Technologies has an ongoing research and development program aimed at continually pushing the envelope and driving down capital and operating costs. It is this commitment which will ensure both Innovene™ G and S technologies will continue to maintain their competitive edge and supplemental value within the world of polyethylene both now and into the future. 

Innovene™ G

The Innovene™ G process has low capital cost inherent of a low pressure, low temperature gas phase process. In addition, the exclusive Innovene cyclone technology removes the need for regular loop cleaning and reduces grade transition time. These combine to provide high on-stream times with high quality product yield giving Innovene™ G the overall lowest lifetime cost for any gas phase process.

With recent advances INEOS Technologies now offers world scale Innovene™ G plants with single trains which can produce in excess of 500 ktpa. And these same advances make debottlenecking existing smaller capacity plant both cheap and straightforward. There are examples of single reactor trains being rapidly expanded up to almost twice the original capacity. The unique Enhanced High Productivity process development allows cost effective expansion of all gas phase polyethylene processes.

Innovene™ S

The Innovene™ S process is a simple and robust design with an extremely low equipment count and very low operating costs. The process has simplified degassing, no centrifuges and a simple low energy diluent recycle. The simplicity of the two reactor design combines best-in-class economics with market leading MDPE and HDPE products. Further economies of scale are now achievable with recent advances pushing up plant capacity to 600 ktpa and beyond.