BASF and SABIC Start Building Demo Plant For Electric Heated Steam Cracker Furnace

摘要

Berlin-BASF and SABIC,along with their engineering,procurement and construction partner Linde,said they have begun building the"world's first"demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracker furnaces(PCN,29 Mar-5 Apr 2021,p1)The plant will be fully integrated into one of the existing steam crackers at BASF's Verbund site in Ludwig-shafen,Germany,and will test two different heating concepts.Start-up is expected next year.BASF will operate the unit,which will process around 4 tons per hour of hydrocarbon and consume 6 megawatts of renewable energy.It will use technology that has the potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by at least 90 compared to conventional steam crackers.