- Industry: Chemistry
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Chevron Phillips Chemical Performance Fuels meet many established industry and military specifications. The company also formulates fuels designed to meet API, EPA, CARB, IP, ISO, DIN, ECE, and other specifications.
Industry:Energy
A.k.a. p-xylene, p-methyltoluene, 4-methyltoluene, 1,4-dimethylbenzene, or PX. A high volume chemical intermediate that is an isomer of xylene. Primarily used as a raw material in the manufacture of terephthalic acid (TPA), purified terephthalic acid (PTA), and dimethyl-terephthalate (DMT) used to produce polyester. Chevron Phillips Chemical is one of the largest marketers of high purity paraxylene in the world.
Industry:Energy
A.k.a. o-xylene, 2-methyltoluene, 1,2-dimethylbenzene, or OX. An isomer of xylene. Chevron Phillips Chemical produces high purity o-xylene at its plant in Borger, TX.
Industry:Energy
Includes functionalized mercaptans, sulfides, disulfides, polysulfides, methanesulfonic acid, methanesulfonyl chloride, and sulfolane. Has a wide array of uses such as poultry feed, agricultural materials, and polymer property control.
Industry:Energy
A mixture of polymer and plasticizer used for molding, such as PVC (polyvinyl chloride).
Industry:Energy
Organic compounds comprised of one or more a metals attached directly to at least one carbon atom.
Industry:Energy
A low molecular weight polymer molecule formed by reacting a monomer with a catalyst. Oligomers consist of relatively few monomer units (dimer, trimer, tetramer, and up to about twelve) as compared with polymers. See alpha olefins.
Industry:Energy
A class of unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons having one or more double bonds. Created by thermal cracking of naphtha or gas fractions. Examples: ethylene, propylene.
Industry:Energy
A substance, such asthiol that is added to a substance to give it a detectable odor. When you smell a gas leak, you are actually smelling the odorant added to it, as gas itself is odorless and therefore not easily detected.
Industry:Energy
A hydrocarbon chain containing a single unbranched chain of carbon atoms usually indicated by the prefix n-.
Industry:Energy
