25-JAN-21, The prices of pentane and pentane foaming agent products rose collectively today. 
n-Pentane, 95% (↑+1.49%)
n-Pentane, 99% (↑+1.30%)
Isopentane, 95% (↑+1.27%)
Isopentane, 99% (↑+1.13%)
Blend n-/Isopentane (80 – 20%) (↑+1.46%)
Blend n-/Isopentane (70 – 30%)(↑+1.46%)
Blend n-/Isopentane (60 – 40%)(↑+1.46%)
Blend n-/Isopentane (20 – 80%)(↑+1.49%)
Blend Iso/n-Pentane (30 – 70%)(↑+1.49%)
Blend Iso/n-Pentane (40 – 60%)(↑+1.49%)

Friday, 22-JAN-22: There was no change in prices of Pentane, Hexane and Heptane series products today.

For products with small orders, we can provide you with flexitank packaging. The advantages of packaging are as follows: 1. Convenient loading and unloading, door-to-door service, and multimodal transport such as highway, railway and waterway can be adopted. 2. A wide range of suitable chemical varieties. 3. Convenient transshipment, suitable for multimodal transport.

What is a Flexitank?

The Flexitank is a package that is used for the storage and transportation of non-hazardous liquid products and is intended for installation in 20ft ISO shipping containers.

Using Flexitank will reduce packaging, storage and transportation costs by a sizeable margin. This is due to its relatively low unit cost and the convenience of positioning ,speed of loading and efficient exploitation of loading weights.

Very Low positioning costs
No cleaning costs,No disposal costs
Cost effective and considerably cheaper than tank containers,drums and IBC’S
Can carry 40% or more cargo than drum and 50% or more than by bottles
Deliveries are door- to- door • Quick loading compared to drums and IBCs
Low labour for handling,filling and loading
No need for forklift to load or unload container
No need for intermediate bulk storage
Available in remote areas
Clean and environmentally friendly
Low weight of Flexitank-so higher payloads possible
20 ft. Container payload 15% higher than IBCs Container payload 44% higher than drums
No demurrage on Flexitank only on container.No return loads needed

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Exhibition Name: 2022 (the 20th) ICIF China
Date: September 6-8, 2022
Venue: Shanghai New International Expo Center
Organizer: China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation
Organizer: Chemical Industry Branch of China Council for the promotion of international trade

Chemical Industry Trade Exchange Platform

About ICIF China

ICIF China, founded in 1992, is jointly organized by China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, chemical industry branch of China Council for the promotion of international trade and China Chemical Information Center. It has been successfully held for 19 times. The exhibition focuses on the current petroleum and chemical industry products, materials and technical equipment, with the theme of “cohesion innovation – driving high-quality development”, runs through green, safety, environmental protection and intelligent solutions, and integrates exhibition, exchange and trade; As one of the important activities of the petrochemical Federation every year, it has been strongly supported and actively participated by member units and chemical enterprises for many years, highlighting the development and style of China’s petrochemical enterprises.

“ICIF China”, founded in 1992, is jointly organized by China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, chemical industry branch of China Council for the promotion of international trade and China Chemical Information Center. It has been successfully held for 30 years.. With the theme of “cohesion and innovation – driving high-quality development”, the exhibition will build a one-stop trade and service platform of the whole industry chain for the petroleum, energy and chemical industry, and focus on the display of new products, new technologies and new ideas of the whole industry, from petrochemical industry, energy and chemical industry, basic chemical raw materials, fine and special chemicals, chemical technology and equipment, chemical packaging, storage and transportation Smart chemical – Smart manufacturing and other major suppliers gather together to provide a series of solutions for the petrochemical industry from raw materials and equipment to packaging, smart manufacturing and energy saving, escort petrochemical enterprises to improve output and quality, reduce costs, safe production, transformation and upgrading, and contribute to promoting industrial innovation and high-quality development!

Since 2018, China International Chemical Industry Exhibition, together with China International Rubber Technology Exhibition and China International adhesive and sealant exhibition, has jointly held an industry event “China Petrochemical Industry Week” at the same time. It provides a one-stop platform for product display, exchange and trade cooperation for petroleum and chemical enterprises, which aims to serve and promote enterprise technological progress and innovative business formats, help the high-quality development of the industry and lead the development direction of the industry.

China Petrochemical Industry week brings together more than 1600 exhibitors every year and exhibits more than 10000 products on site. In 2022, the total exhibition area is expected to exceed 100000 square meters and attract more than 60000 professional visitors.

Exhibit Scope:

Petrochemical and Energy Chemical Industry: shale gas and LPG such as crude oil, naphtha, condensate, light hydrocarbon, solvent oil, paraffin and petroleum product additives, asphalt, refining and chemical integration and bulk petrochemical products LNG, oilfield associated gas, coalbed methane, coke oven

Gas, coal chemical industry, hydrogen energy, energy storage, new energy, etc

Basic Chemical Raw Materials: inorganic and organic chemicals and raw materials, barium salts, magnesium salts, potassium salts, boron compounds and borates, bromine compounds, chromium salts, cyanide, oxygen compounds, phosphating compounds and phosphate, silicon compounds, silicate and other inorganic acids

Alkali salt, caustic soda, calcium carbide, activated carbon, carbon black, titanium dioxide, etc

New Chemical Materials: Organic fluorosilicone materials, engineering plastics, modified plastics, high-performance separation membrane materials, high-performance fibers, epoxy resins, high-performance resins, polyurethane materials, high-end polyolefin materials, aerospace, aviation special materials, military materials

Engineering and Special Environmental Materials, other new chemical materials, etc

Fine Chemicals: surfactants, catalysts, electronic chemicals, fine organic chemical raw materials and intermediates, ion exchange resins, agricultural chemicals, leather chemicals, dyes, poko and intermediates, daily chemicals and cleaners

Biological Chemicals, feed and food additives, water treatment chemicals, additives (plastic additives, special additives), purchased / customized synthetic / commissioned processing chemicals, flavors and fragrances, pharmaceutical raw materials and intermediates, fluorin.

Optical brightener, oilfield chemicals, additives, special chemicals, special chemicals, etc

Intelligent Chemical Industry – Intelligent Manufacturing Exhibition Area: key technical equipment of intelligent manufacturing, production process automation, intelligent packaging, logistics and storage, information security and network security control, manufacturing process management information and data interconnection, intelligent factory / digital chemical plant, industrial Internet / Internet of things / cloud platform, intelligent robot, big data, 5g, cloud computing Digital software and solutions, artificial intelligence, edge computing, digital twins, sensors, etc.

Why ICIF China?

Strong Brand Appeal

ICIF China is an exhibition platform jointly built by China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, chemical industry branch of China Council for the promotion of international trade and China Chemical Information Center.

China Petrochemical Industry Week

The four exhibitions are linked to build China Petrochemical Industry Week, focusing on energy and chemical industry, petrochemical industry, basic chemical industry, material chemical products and technology.

Huge market resources and high-quality buyers

Every year, about 100 journalists from all over the world come to cover ICIF China.

Smart Chemical Conference

The Sixth International Smart chemical conference promoted the deep integration of informatization and industrialization in the chemical industry, and achieved high-quality development of digitization, networking and intelligence for the chemical industry.

Leading Enterprises Lead

Led by state-owned leading enterprises and actively participated by private leading enterprises, more than 20 international enterprises gathered together.

There are two technological methods for extracting edible oil from plants, differentiation oil extraction method and physical oil extraction method, that is, what we usually call leaching method (chemical) and pressing method (physical):
Press method: press method has a long history, and its process is relatively simple: after steaming and frying the oil, squeeze the oil out of the oil by mechanical method. The ancient pressing method requires operators to pay heavy physical labor. The residual oil content in the extruded oil residue (oil cake) is quite high, which wastes extremely valuable oil resources. Modern pressing method has been industrialized and automatic operation, but the problem of high residual oil content in oil residue can not be solved.
From the pretreatment of pressed raw materials, there are cold pressing method and hot pressing method, also known as mature pressing method. Cold pressing means that the raw materials are directly put into the oil press to extrude the oil without baking or steaming. This method has relatively light oil color and brighter color, but the oil yield is low, and the oil taste is not strong and mellow. The purpose of ripe pressing is to dry the oil crops before pressing, so as to reduce the moisture of raw materials and increase the activity and fluidity of oil molecules, so as to improve the oil yield and ensure the flavor of oil quality. But it also destroys the chemical composition of the oil, resulting in a darker and darker color of the oil.
The basic process of oil pressing process is as follows:
1. Conventional production process: raw meal – steaming frying – pressing – machine pressing crude oil
2. Special oil production process: oilseeds – fried seeds – pressing – filtering – scented oil
3. Special oil production process: oilseed – whole seed cold pressing – Filtration – cold pressing oil
Process of oil being squeezed out: when the oil enters the press chamber of the oil press, the pressure increases with the rotation of the press chamber. The seed material is squeezed tightly with the extrusion of oil, and the pressure is generated between the directly contacted pressed particles, resulting in the plastic deformation of the seed material, especially at the oil film rupture and the bonding. In this way, after being extruded and blasted, the pressed material is no longer loose, but forms a plastic body, called oil cake. During pressing, due to the dual action of temperature and pressure, the protein will continue to deteriorate, and then affect the plasticity of the pressing material. In short, the best oil pressing effect can be guaranteed only if the degree of protein denaturation is appropriate.
Leaching method: leaching method is an oil production process. Its theoretical basis is the extraction principle. It originated in France in 1843. It is a safe, hygienic, scientific and advanced oil making process. At present, more than 90% of the total output of oil esters produced by leaching in industrial developed countries. The advantages of oil extraction method are less residual oil, high oil yield, low processing cost, high economic benefit, high quality of meal and good feeding effect in feed industry.
The special solvent oil specially arranged and produced by the state for oil processing can be completely separated from oil and grease with its own composition characteristics. The leaching method is to use the nature of mutual dissolution of oil and organic solvent to crush and press the oil into embryo or expand it, and then contact the oil embryo with organic solvent (generally n-Hexane) in the equipment called extractor to extract and dissolve the oil in the oil. Then, the solvent in the oil is removed by heating and stripping. By this method, the residual oil in the oil residue can be reduced to less than 1%. Taking soybean as an example, the oil yield of leaching method is 50% higher than that of pressing method.
Oil extraction process
(1) According to the operation mode, the leaching process can be divided into intermittent leaching and continuous leaching:
① Batch leaching process operations, such as the embryo entering the extractor, the meal unloading from the extractor, the injection of fresh solvent and the extraction of concentrated mixed oil, are batch, intermittent and periodic. The leaching process belongs to this type of process.
② The process operations of continuous leaching, such as material embryo entering the extractor, meal unloading from the extractor, injection of fresh solvent and extraction of concentrated mixed oil, are all continuous leaching processes, which belong to this type of process.
According to the contact mode, the leaching process can be divided into immersion leaching, spray leaching and mixed leaching:
③ Immersion leaching is called immersion leaching when the material embryo is immersed in solvent to complete the leaching process. The leaching equipment belonging to immersion type includes tank group type, bow type, U-type and Y-type leaching devices, etc.
④ Spray leaching is called spray leaching when the leaching solvent contacts the material embryo in a spray state to complete the leaching process. The leaching equipment of spray type includes crawler extractor, etc.
⑤ Mixed leaching is a leaching method combining spraying and soaking. It belongs to mixed leaching equipment, including horizontal rotating extractor and annular extractor.
(2) The oil extraction process can be divided into direct leaching and pre pressing leaching according to the production method:
① Direct leaching direct leaching is also called “one-time leaching”. It is a process of leaching oil directly after pretreatment. This process is suitable for processing oil with low oil content.
② Pre press leaching the process of extracting some oil from pre press oil, and then leaching the cake with high oil content. This process is suitable for oil with high oil content.
(3) The selection basis and basic process flow of leaching process are closely related to the selected process flow. It directly affects many aspects such as product quality, production cost, production capacity and operating conditions after the oil plant is put into operation. Therefore, both advanced and reasonable process flow should be adopted. The selection of process flow is based on:
① According to the varieties and properties of raw materials, different technological processes are adopted according to different varieties of raw materials, such as processing cottonseed. The technological process is: Cottonseed → cleaning → depilation → shelling → kernel and shell separation → softening → rolling embryo → steaming and frying → pre pressing → leaching;
If rapeseed is processed, the process flow is: Rapeseed → cleaning → rolling embryo → steaming and frying → pre pressing → leaching;
According to the different oil content of raw materials, determine whether to adopt one-time leaching or pre press leaching. As mentioned above, rapeseed and Cottonseed Kernel are high oil-bearing raw materials, so the pre press leaching process should be adopted. The oil content of soybean is low, so the one-time leaching process should be adopted.
Soybean → cleaning → crushing → softening → embryo rolling → drying → leaching;
② According to the requirements for products and by-products, the process conditions should be changed accordingly. For example, when processing soybean, soybean meal is used to extract protein powder, soybean peeling is required to reduce the content of crude fiber and relatively improve the protein content. The process flow is as follows:
Soybean → cleaning → drying → temperature regulation → crushing → peeling → softening → embryo rolling → leaching → leached meal → baking → cooling → crushing → high protein soybean powder
③ Select oil plants with large production capacity according to the production capacity, and select more complex processes and advanced equipment if possible; For oil plants with small production capacity, relatively simple processes and equipment can be selected. For example, for the leaching workshop with a daily treatment capacity of more than 50 tons, paraffin oil tail gas absorption unit and frozen tail gas recovery solvent unit can be considered.
Food science and engineering professionals pointed out that for most oil plants, whether pressed or leached, the crude oil obtained cannot be eaten directly because it contains phospholipids, free fatty acids and pesticide residues. Only after refining processes such as degumming, deacidification, decolorization and distillation deodorization can we get oil for our consumption. Therefore, whether the edible oil is safe or not depends not on whether the pressing or leaching process is adopted for the preparation of the front section, but mainly on the subsequent refining process.
The n-Hexane used in the leaching oil plant must be food grade. After heavy metal removal treatment, the residue of harmful metals such as lead and arsenic is less than 10 ppb (1 / 100 million). Such a low residue will not be harmful to the produced oil.
China’s national standard stipulates that the preparation process must be marked on the outer package of edible oil, which is to give consumers the right to know, which does not mean that the two preparation processes are different in food safety.

Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, cut the price of all grades of crude oil destined for its main market Asia in February. The company cut the benchmark price of major Arab light crude oil by $1.10 from January to $2.20 a barrel. However, the price adjustment is less than expected. According to a media survey last week, Asian traders expect the price to be reduced by $1.25; Saudi Arabia cut oil prices to Asian buyers, which means that the additional supply of OPEC + may ease the market in the case of the rapid spread of the epidemic. On Tuesday, OPEC + will again set the target of increasing production by 400000 barrels / day in February. As the current market concerns about Omicron have subsided, the price of Brent crude oil has stood at $80 a barrel. Despite such worries, OPEC + remained cautious and left its own way – it would suspend production if demand fell or oil inventories were surplus. More than 60% of Saudi Arabia’s crude oil is exported to Asia, and Japan, South Korea and India are the largest buyers.

Today is the second day of the new year, and the prices of #pentane, #hexane and #heptane series products have not changed.
Industry News
According to market news, the Ministry of Commerce recently approved and issued the allowable import volume of the first batch of crude oil for non-state trade in 2022, with a total amount of 109.03 million tons, a decrease of 11% compared with the same period in 2021. The quota of some independent refineries in Shandong and Northeast China was reduced.
After the impact of the epidemic on the national economy in 2020, Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, continued to pick up its foreign trade in 2021. According to the statistics released by the Saudi National Bureau of statistics on the evening of the 26th local time, Saudi Arabia’s foreign exports in October 2021 increased by 90% over the same period last year. Affected by the rising oil price, crude oil exports reached 82.4 billion Saudi Riyals (about 140.08 billion yuan), an increase of 123.1% over October 2020; The export volume of non oil commodities increased by 25.5% over the same period last year, and the total export volume also increased by 12.2% over September 2021.
Earlier this month, the Saudi Ministry of Finance announced the national budget for 2021-2022, which is expected to have a fiscal surplus for the first time in nine years. The world economic outlook report released by the International Monetary Fund in October also predicts that Saudi Arabia’s economic growth will reach 2.8% in 2021 and further increase to 4.8% in 2022.

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