New DME plant planned

摘要

State-run Korea Gas Corporation (Kogas) is carrying out a feasibility study with Malaysia's national oil and gas company, Petronas, to build a 1,000 t/d dimethyl-ether (DME) plant in Sabah State in East Malaysia, writes David Hayes. Petronas already owns a large methanol plant on Labuan island located off East Malaysia. The feasibility study will allow it to compare Kogas' one-step natural gas-to-DME technology with Toyo Engineering's methanol dehydratjon-to-DME process.