Ethylene Oxide Producer Chooses MTR for Middle East Plant

November 2015

MTR recently received an order from a middle-eastern Ethylene Oxide (EO) producer for an Ethylene Recovery Unit (ERU).  The ERU will separate and recover ethylene from argon in the reactor purge gas.  Recovery efficiency is more than 65% using MTR’s unique argon selective membrane.  This membrane is well suited for producers who lack the machinery to recompress the recovered ethylene stream.  Shipment is estimated to be August 2016 with start-up in the first quarter of 2017.