Kömpel, H.
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG, Essen, Germany
Harald Kömpel is Head of Technologies within the refining and petrochemical division at thyssenkrupp Uhde Engineering Services GmbH, Germany. He has 26 years of experience in the refining, hydrocarbon and petrochemical processing fields, with a focus on light olefins and their downstream products. Mr. Kömpel holds a degree in chemical engineering from the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.
Oxygenates are hydrocarbons containing oxygen atoms as part of their molecular structure.
Summarizing the outcome of the technical evaluation in Part 1 of this technical study, a tailor-made process route should be chosen for proper C4 hydrocarbon processing to obtain the best benefits from case to case.
Crude C4 streams from the steam cracker unit or the fluidized catalytic cracker unit contain valuable hydrocarbons, such as butadiene and C4 olefins.