Up to end of December, 2015, Hainan 600 thousand t/a aromatics united unit had been in stable operation for 25 months, “energy consumption for each ton of product is 72% of international advanced technique of the same kind, cost for each ton of product is 6% lower than international advanced level, and product purity reaches 99.8%”, all key technical indices reaching or surpassing international level of the same kind. Unit domestication rate was as high as 95%.
Successful operation of this unit fully ended the history that Chinese aromatics core techniques relied upon importation, marking that Sinopec became the third aromatics complete production technique patent holder beside the US and French companies.