Petrochemicals Petrochemicals involve transforming carbon, either sourced from bio-based or fossil material, into longer chain molecules and ultimately into valuable plastic resins. These plastics are then turned into consumer goods.
Technip Energies provides market-leading technologies, strong partnerships and unrivalled project management skills for the delivery of successful petrochemicals projects across the globe. We strive to build more efficient and less carbon intensive plants while integrating alternative sustainable feedstocks and recycling end-of-life plastics.
At Technip Energies, we are actively developing plastic recycling technologies and are building new plants that will contribute in a real way to the reduction of global CO2 emissions.
Ethylene Ethylene is described as the world s most important chemical as it forms the basic building block in the production of plastics. Technip Energies is the world leader in the design and construction of ethylene plants with over 40% of the licensing market share, and delivery of 32% of the worldwide licenced capacity.
The cracking furnaces are the largest source of CO2 emissions in an ethylene plant, and often in a whole petrochemicals complex, so these represent the main focal point of our decarbonization efforts. As well as offering commercially proven solutions, which include reforming methane to hydrogen for firing in the furnaces using our BlueH2 by T.ENTM technology and capturing the CO2 from the flue gas of the furnaces and the boilers, other new technologies are under development. These include electric furnaces, rotating olefins compressor and low CO2 cracking furnaces.
World-class research centers in the USA and Europe Our Badger research center in Weymouth, Massachusetts in the USA, develops and tests technologies for petrochemical applications. The laboratory has automated pilot plants to test catalysts and gather the design data needed to scale up processes for commercialization. In the Zimmer center located in Frankfurt, Germany, we develop and improve polymer technologies to support the commercialization of clients products. Experiments in this lab generate critical design data to cost-effectively scale up the process to commercial conditions.
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