| · | high reliability |
| · | reliable equipment |
| · | proven materials |
| · | low coking rate |
| · | high cracking rate of up to 60 %, and hence lower energy cost and lower investment costs for the cracking furnace and the EDC and VCM distillation units |
| · | high savings in primary energy, due to |
| - external EDC evaporation using the energy of the cracking gas | |
| - energy recovery of flue- and cracking gases | |
| - steam generation or EDC preheating situated on top of the quench column
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