South Korea YNCC device incident involving pure benzene upstream and downstream brief
It is reported that the YNCC plant in Yeosu, South Korea suffered a power outage on the evening of 22nd, and line 1 was not planned to stop. The plant has a total of 3 sets of ethylene cracking device byproduct of pure benzene, the accident involved device is no. 1 device.
YNCC has three ethylene cracker units in Yeosu, Korea, with an annual ethylene processing capacity of 2.285 million tons per year.
The plant has a capacity of 457,000 tons of pure benzene in Lishui, spread over three units.
The accident involved unit No. 1, with a design capacity of 162,000 tons of pure benzene and supporting downstream styrene.
The shutdown followed another incident at the plant's no. 3 unit on Feb. 11.
According to market information, Line 2 is currently operating normally.
According to market news, the current line 1 parking device is recovering, is expected to restart in the short term.
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