Air Products adds biomass gasifier7 Nov 2018 05:46
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gasification - the move appears to focus on using the technology to process biomass, coal and petcoke through gasification.
6 November 2018 by EWB Staff
Air Products adds biomass to gasification expansion
The company abandoned two waste gasification plants at a loss of about €876m two years ago
US-based Air Products has expanded its gasification portfolio with a deal to buy General Electric’s (GE’s) technology.
The move, which was announced yesterday, appears to focus on using the technology to process biomass, coal and petcoke through gasification.
No financial terms were revealed for the deal, which Air Products said was designed to complement the gasification technology it bought from Shell in January.
Shell’s technology was focused on coal gasification as well as a portfolio of patents for "liquid residue" gasification technology.
Air Products said its new portfolio of technology would allow it to offer syngas for the chemicals, fuels, power and refining sectors.
The new deal includes more than 1,000 patents relating to GE’s gasification technology, which has been deployed at more than 90 sites, with about 240 gasifiers supplying about 36,000MWth of syngas production.
There is no mention of using waste as a feedstock by Air Products, which in April 2016 said it would lose about €876m after scrapping development of two UK-based waste gasification plants, known as Tees Valley 1 (TV1) and Tees Valley 2 (TV2).
Currently, the "unused" equipment from the sites is being sold off.
Under Air Product’s new deal with GE, it has also taken over GE’s share of its 50/50 joint venture with China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Company, which is subsidiary of China Energy Group.
The JV, formed in 2011, provides technologies for gasification projects in China.
https://www.endswasteandbioenergy.com/article/1498207/air-products-adds-biomass-gasification-expansion