Economic evaluation of vinyl chloride monomer production: balanced oxychlorination process, emerging EVC ethane to VCM process. Regional supply/demand forecasts.

Comparative economic evaluation of MTBE production: CDTech etherification, UOP Ethermx process, Propylene oxide/MTBE process. ETBE also presented. Regional supply/demand forecasts are given.

Compares the economic evaluation of MMA production: acetone cyanohydrin, isobutylene, t-butyl alcohol, BASF ethylene hydroformylation, Asahi metahacrylonitrile, Mitsubishi Gas Chem. HCN recyle, Roehm carbonylation of propylene, Shell/ICI methyl acetylene. Regional Forecasts are given.

This report evaluates the economics of formaldehyde production: silver catalyst process and metal oxide process. It also examines the process and economics of its derivatives: phenol-formaldehyde and urea formaldehyde resins, melamines, polyacetals, butanediol, neopentyl glycol, penaerythritol, and trimethylolpropane.

This report examines the economic evaluation of LDPE and LLDPE production: LDPE via tubular reactor and autoclave, LLDPE via Unipol, via Borstar slurry, Phillips slurry, Spherilene, Unipol II (enhance condensation), Innovene w/HPT, and bimodal with metallocenes. Regional supply/demand forecasts.

Chemistry, process and economics of 1,3-propanediol production: Shell ethylene oxide based route and Degussa acrolein based route. Applications of 1,3-PDO also presented.

Technoeconomic evaluation of acetylene production routes: partial oxidation, calcium carbide route, recovery from steam crackers, and electric arc route. Regional demand outlook.

Technoeconomic evaluation of ethanol production: whole kernal dry milling, tempered degermination dry milling, ethylene hydration; regional supply/demand forecast

Technoeconomics of hydrogen peroxide production: Chematur anthraquinone process, Dow electrochemical process, Shell isopropanol process, Arco methyl benzyl alcohol oxidation and direct reaction processes. Regional supply/demand forecasts.

Economic evaluation of formic acid production: methyl formate hydrolysis, formamide acidolysis. Regional supply/demand forecasts.