Posted on 01/11/2016 4:54:42 AM PST by thackney
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. formally signed on Technip to engineer and build its $400 million hydrogen plant in Baytown, the companies announced Friday.
Pennsylvania-based Air Products is planning for the world-scale steam methane reformer plant in Texas to produce 125 million cubic feet a day of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, much of which will ship through its Gulf Coast pipeline that runs from the Houston Ship Channel to New Orleans.
Paris-based Technip touted its work with Air Products as the longest and best hydrogen alliance in the world supporting the oil and gas industry. Hydrogen is used in the petroleum refining process to remove impurities from in crude oil. Carbon monoxide gas is a common feedstock in petrochemicals production.
The project is scheduled for completion in 2018.
Technip said the plant will use its proprietary steam methane reforming, or SMR, technology, as well as the latest nitrogen oxide reduction technology to limit emissions.
Air Products is expanding elsewhere in Texas too. In November, the industrial gas producer opened its new liquid nitrogen production facility in Odessa. Liquid nitrogen is often used as part of the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking process.
However, Air Products did recently miss out on a bid to buy its other Pennsylvania-based competitor, Airgas. Also in November, France-based Air Liquide swooped in to buy Airgas for more than $10 billion. The deal came just a few years after Air Products ended an unsuccessful hostile bid for Airgas.
Hydrogen leaks. Wouldn’t want to live too near that pipeline. Then again, unless major environmental improvements have been made in the past 15 years or so I wouldn’t want to live by the ship channel either.
We have used hydrogen in pipes for refineries for decades.
Air Products already has over 600 miles of hydrogen pipelines.
http://www.airproducts.com/Microsites/h2-pipeline-supply/project-overview.aspx
We are pretty safe. Houston is a place where people still work and produce something. And if you didn’t know, the ship channel is heavy industry at it’s best. Massive industrial area, but safe, and not killing people. Rare incidents happen, but more people die getting to work today than in this area at work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Ship_Channel
Amazing view of the ship channel at night. Go full screen, watch it on a full screen. See what amazing things are happening.
bttt
Hydrogen leaks and carbon monoxide leaks are unlikely to kill us. Hydrogen sulfide? Different story.
Hydrogen explosion? Boom.
Technip was the customer I went to Alabama for some years back to move a bunch of overweight containers.
They treated me well when I worked for them. Paid for moving us back from Alaska so that was nice.
Carbon monoxide? Won’t the planet warm up and all life be extinguished?
That would be Carbon Dioxide...
Whew! I thought we were doomed. H2O is far worse. I hope no one puts that in a pipeline. Imagine what would happen with a spill. Things would get wet!
LOL!
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