Jacobs technology first at Taiwan sulfur recovery unit
7 Dec 2010
Pasadena, California – Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract from CPC Corp. of Taiwan to design and license Jacobs’ proprietary EUROCLAUS technology for a desulfurisation unit as part of the Ta-Lin refinery expansion project in Kaoshiung, Taiwan.
The new facility, scheduled to be operational in 2013, will produce clean fuels products for the local Taiwanese market. Jacobs will execute the project from its office in Leiden, The Netherlands.
CPC, a state-owned petroleum, natural gas, and gasoline company in Taiwan and the core of the Taiwanese petrochemicals industry, will design and build the Ta-Lin refinery expansion.
This project is the first to combine Jacobs’ EUROCLAUS technology with DynaWave technology, which is engineered and licensed by US-based MECS, Inc., a major supplier of sulfuric acid technology.
The combination of these two unique technologies makes it possible to achieve very low sulfur emissions at low investment cost compared to existing technologies, claims Jacobs.
Jacobs introduced EUROCLAUS technology to the global marketplace in 1985 and now has over 200 units in operation.
Addition of the DynaWave technology to the EUROCLAUS(R) process nearly eliminates sulfur from the production process.
