Air Products builds world-scale carbon monoxide coldbox in China
13 Jan 2009
Will produce over 330,000 tonnes per year of CO and will be used in the 500,000 tonnes per year acetic acid factory of Yangzi Petrochemical. In addition to CO, the coldbox will produce hydrogen and syngas, a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, to produce
London - Air Products has installed a world-scale carbon monoxide (CO) coldbox at its manufacturing facility in Caojing for Yangzi Petrochemical Corp., part of Sinopec Corp. The unit is claimed to be the largest CO coldbox and the largest workshop-built CO coldbox ever constructed by Air Products for its customers globally.
“The Caojing manufacturing facility is part of Air Products’ strategic business blueprint to serve our customers in China and Asia with local manufacturing capabilities by bringing our world class technologies and standards to the region,” said Li Bing, general manager of Air Products’ Caojing manufacturing facility. “We have already built many oxygen and nitrogen coldboxes for our customers throughout Asia. The CO coldbox for Yangzi Petrochemical is a new milestone for us in scale, scope and technologies.”
Weighing over 300 tonnes and measuring over 70,000 cubic feet, the CO coldbox was designed with Air Products cryogenic technologies and was manufactured at the Caojing manufacturing facility in Shanghai, one of Air Products’ three global manufacturing centres. The other ones are located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and in the UK at Acrefair.
The coldbox will produce over 330,000 tonnes per year of CO and will be used in the 500,000 tonnes per year acetic acid factory of Yangzi Petrochemical. In addition to CO, the coldbox will produce hydrogen and syngas, a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, to produce methanol, fuel, acetic acid and other products.
Air Products will ship the CO coldbox via the Yangtze River and work with Yangzi Petrochemical for the road transportation to deliver the coldbox to its facility at the Nanjing Petrochemical Complex in Jiangsu Province, 150 miles from Shanghai. Air Products will supervise the installation of the CO coldbox at the Nanjing site.
Strategically located adjacent to the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park and connected with harbor and highways, the Caojing facility builds equipment to diverse specifications to support Air Products’ projects in China, Taiwan, Korea, Southeast Asia, India, and other parts of the world.
A subsidiary of Sinopec Corp., one of the largest crude oil and petrochemical companies in China and Asia, Yangzi Petrochemical is a state-owned petrochemical enterprise that processes crude oil and produces petrochemical products used in a variety of sectors including light industry, textile, electronics, foodstuff processing, automobile, aviation and agriculture.
