Main-Product
- Product
- Butenes
Map of Butenes Sub-Products producing locations in ppPLUS
Product Categories, Description and Properties
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- Chemicals
- Main-Family
- Unsaturated Monomers
- Sub-Family
- Aliphatic Olefins
- Description
- Butenes - or Butylenes - are Alkenes with the formula C4H8. They are colourless gases that are present in crude oil as a minor constituent in quantities that are too small for viable extraction. Butene is therefore obtained by catalytic cracking of long-chain hydrocarbons left during refining of crude oil. Cracking produces a mixture of products, and the Butene is extracted from this by fractional distillation. Butene can be used as the monomer for Polybutene, but this polymer is more expensive than alternatives with shorter carbon chains such as Polypropylene. Polybutene is therefore used in more specialized applications. Butenes are more commonly used to make copolymer (mixed with another monomer such as Ethylene).
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Building Block / Value Chain - Info
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- C4 Stream
Properties
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Kokel, Nicolas - Last Update
- 10/7/2021 8:29 AM
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