Olefins production, Altona, at plant {AU}| | AusLCI, U
Unit process
Australia
v00.00.001
Included processes: production of ethylene from ethane feedstock via cracking process.
Remark: Data is from the production of 1t of ethylene, based on data provided by Qenos for their Altona plant. The process involves cracking ethane from natural gas sourced from Bass Strait via the use of heat. The process includes the following steps: steam cracker, quench tower, gas compressor, treating, chilling train and fractionation. Allocation based on value of output.
Geography: Refers to the production of Qenos' Altona plant
Technology: Average
Time period: Data collected for 2013/2014
Version 1.0
Record: Data entry by: Paul-Antoine Bontinck
E-mail: paul@lifecycles.com.au; Company: LCS; Country: AU
Generator: Generator/publicator: Tim Grant
Telephone: 0061 408104977; E-mail: tim@lifecycles.com.au; Company: LCS; Country: AU
- Sector
- Other Materials
- Contributor
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- Last updated
- 12 Oct 2026
- Reference ID
b97610e1-536a-374c-9053-99d26bcf289a
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Documentation
- Quantitative reference
- Olefins production, Altona, at plant {AU}| | AusLCI, U
- Sampling procedure
- Data collected from Qenos, producer of PE in Australia
- Creation date
- 26 Jun 2015
- Is copyright protected
- No
- Is infrastructure process
- No
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Product outputs
Technical inputs
Outputs to treatment
Elementary flow inputs
Elementary flow outputs
Parameters
| Name | Value | Formula | Description |
|---|
| m_total |
1102.0 |
m_ethylene+m_propylene+m_gasoline+m_quench |
— |
| ED_naturalgas |
50.16 |
— |
MJ/kg Natural gas
|
| m_quench |
17.0 |
— |
[kg] of quench oil
|
| p_quench_oil |
0.45 |
— |
[$/kg] price of quench oil
|
| p_output |
1.35 |
— |
[$/kg] price for ethylene, propylene, gasoline (pygas) and quench oil
|
| p_total |
1438.314 |
(m_ethylene+m_propylene)*p_output+m_gasoline*p_gasoline+m_quench*p_quench_oil |
— |
| m_ethylene |
1000.0 |
— |
[kg] of ethylene from ethane
|
| d_nitrogen |
1.165 |
— |
[kg/m3] NTP - Normal Temperature and Pressure, http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/gas-density-d_158.html
|
| p_gasoline |
0.609 |
— |
[$/kg] price of gasoline (pygas)
|
| d_hydrogen |
0.0899 |
— |
[kg/m3] NTP - Normal Temperature and Pressure, http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/gas-density-d_158.html
|
| all_ethylene |
0.9385989429290127 |
(m_ethylene*p_output)/p_total |
— |
| m_gasoline |
46.0 |
— |
[kg] of gasoline (pygas)
|
| m_propylene |
39.0 |
— |
[kg] of propylene
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