air products is a premier provider of turnkey solutions to convert hydrocarbon feedstock into synthesis gas for high-value products. through our acquisition of the shell and ge gasification technologies, our teams draw upon the experience gained from designing approximately 500 gasifiers. our proven gasification technologies take a full range of lower-value feedstocks and convert them in a lower-emission manner into syngas, which is then used to make higher-value products.
lu'an clean energy company
saudi aramco
jiutai new material co. ltd
debang group
lu'an clean energy company
changzhi, shanxi province, china
- scope: long-term supply of syngas from coal gasification. air products process includes:
- four 3,000 ton-per-day (tpd) air products dry-feed gasifiers with syngas coolers, the largest single dry-feed gasifiers at the time of being put into operation
- syngas clean-up system
- four air separation units (asu) producing >16,000 tpd of oxygen and nitrogen
- customer end products: 1 mmpta coal to liquid—one of china's landmark clean energy demonstration projects
- ownership: joint venture (jv) between air products (60%) and lu'an (40%)
- cost: ~$1.5 billion
- contract: customer pays fixed monthly fee and provides coal
- other: the gasifiers represent the largest pulverized coal gasifiers adopting shell's proven gasification technologies.
saudi aramco
jazan economic city, saudi arabia
- scope: jv purchased asus, gasification, syngas cleanup, utilities and power assets from aramco. the jv owns and operates the facility under a 25-year contract for a fixed monthly fee, with aramco supplying feedstock to the jv, and the jv producing power, steam, hydrogen and other utilities for aramco.
- customer end products: refined oil products
- ownership: jv between air products (46%), acwa power (25%), saudi aramco (20%) and air products qudra, a majority-owned jv with qudra energy (9%). air products' total ownership is 50.6%.
- cost: ~$12 billion
- contract: customer pays fixed monthly fee and provides vacuum residue
- timing: 2023 reached financial close and transfer of the second group of assets.
jiutai new material co. ltd
hohhot, china
- scope: long-term supply of about 500,000 nm3/hour of syngas. air products process includes:
– two 2,000 tpd air products dry-feed gasifiers, converting lignite into syngas efficiently
– two ~100,000 nm3/hour asus
– syngas purification and processing
– associated infrastructure and utilities - customer end products: 1 mmtpa meg—the largest single plant of its size
- ownership: air products (100%)
- cost: $650 million
- contract: customer pays fixed monthly fee
- status: onstream expected 2023
debang group
xuwei national petrochemical park, lianyungang city,
jiangsu province, china
- scope: long-term supply of about 500,000 nm3/hour of syngas. air products process includes:
– two 750 tpd slurry gasifiers
– purification units
– asus - customer end products: 350,000 tons per year (tpy) of chemicals
- ownership: jv between air products (80%) and debang group (20%)
- cost: ~$250 million
- contract: customer pays fixed monthly fee
- status: onstream expected 2023