Shell plans groundbreaking pilot plant on Jurong Island

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Shell aims to start up its diphenyl carbonate (DPC) demonstration plant on Jurong Island next year. The plant will produce one of the key intermediates used to make polycarbonates.

The product is the largest-volume thermoplastic used for various engineering applications ranging from optical media to automotive glazing of windscreens and lamp lenses to electronics and sheeting film.

The Singapore demo plant marks a "scaled-up" project from the technological process first developed at the oil giant's laboratories, and it precedes a potential investment by Shell in a world-scale DPC plant once the project proves successful.

Matthias Bichsel, Shell's projects and technology director, said the company's patented process for producing DPC at the 500 tonne-per-year (tpy) demo plant in Singapore exemplifies how the oil giant is using innovative engineering to reduce the waste by-products of what it brings to market.