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thyssenkrupp Uhde's Initiatives Towards a Greener Chemical Industry
Here's a report by thyssenkrupp on the future of the 'green' chemical industry.
According to it:
- The chemical industry is among the most CO2-intensive sectors globally, with Germany alone responsible for 113 million metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2020.
- thyssenkrupp Uhde aims to create CO2-neutral value chains through sustainable plant design, leveraging hydrogen-based technologies and innovations like BioTfuel technology for biomass-to-fuel conversion.
Besides this, let us look into some of the other projects of thyssenkrupp Uhde:
- Innovation Center in Ennigerloh
- The center focuses on process innovations, digitalization, and sustainability to create value for customers across the chemical industry value chain
- Key areas of innovation include green hydrogen production, carbon capture and utilization, and advanced ammonia and fertilizer technologies
- Partnership with Johnson Matthey
- Together they are developing ammonia production processes that can capture over 90% of CO2 emissions, enabling the production of "blue ammonia" as a sustainable fuel and feedstock
- EnviNOx Technology
- The technology uses a catalytic reduction process to remove over 99% of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, a potent greenhouse gas, from nitric acid plant tail gases
- EnviNOx has been installed in over 100 nitric acid plants worldwide, making a significant contribution to reducing the chemical industry's carbon footprint
- Uhde Dual-Pressure Technology
- The technology uses two pressure levels in the ammonia synthesis loop, allowing for higher conversion rates and lower energy consumption compared to conventional designs
- Uhde Dual-Pressure plants are capable of producing over 3,500 metric tons per day of ammonia from a single train, making them among the largest and most efficient in the world
