Options for refinery decarbonisation
While there has been a focus on switching to low carbon hydrogen feeds, many options exist to decarbonise refineries, including energy efficiency, carbon capture and changing to bio-feedstocks.
While there has been a focus on switching to low carbon hydrogen feeds, many options exist to decarbonise refineries, including energy efficiency, carbon capture and changing to bio-feedstocks.
Gas processing facilities are increasingly required to reduce industrial carbon footprint. A significant opportunity lies in recovering CO2 from tail-end gas streams that are typically routed to thermal oxidation. MAIRE Group presents an integrated recovery configuration combining cryogenic separation with pressure swing adsorption (PSA) to recover high purity CO2 and H2 from SRU/TGTU tail gas.
VK Arora of Kinetics Process Improvements (KPI) compares the delivered-cost competitiveness of blue ammonia from regions including the US Gulf Coast, Western Canada, Atlantic Canada, the Middle East, Indonesia, and Malaysia into Japan, the European Union, and South Korea.
Selecting the right syngas technology is a critical early decision for low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia projects. Shell shows how gas-based partial oxidation (POx) can offer a potentially simpler and lower-cost route designed to deliver high carbon capture performance.
SunGas Renewables Inc. has said that it will cease further development of the Beaver Lake Biofuels project, a proposed wood fibre-to-low carbon methanol facility in Louisiana. The project was to have involved integrating three of SunGas S1000 syngas production systems with downstream technologies to produce approximately 553,000 t/a of low carbon methanol, and geological storage […]
Stephen B Harrison of sbh4 consulting outlines the options for decarbonising diammonium phosphate (DAP).
LSB Industries, a US-based producer of ammonia and industrial chemicals, has agreed a deal with carbon capture developer Lapis Carbon Solutions to secure a pathway to full ownership of its El Dorado CCS project in Arkansas.
The selection of the post-combustion carbon capture technology to be implemented for a decarbonisation project is a crucial element during the early feasibility phases and it is strongly affected by the characteristics of the plant on which it has to be installed. NextChem highlights the comparative advantages of absorption technologies and the alternative opportunities of using a cryogenic configuration to reach the desired carbon capture rate.
A novel high-pressure regeneration (HPR) process for carbon capture in blue hydrogen applications is introduced by Dow as a new offering for reducing costs. The process combines a specially formulated solvent with a heat integration network to deliver the separated carbon dioxide at high pressure while reducing capital costs and equipment sizes.
Day two of CRU’s Nitrogen+Syngas Expoconference 2026 saw the conference move into its technical sessions, run in three parallel streams covering everything from low carbon hydrogen production, sustainable plants, emissions reductions, carbon capture, ammonia plant operations, syngas and methanol production to asset safety and maintenance. Blue ammonia One of the things that struck me most, […]