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
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
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- 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