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Air Liquide’s CO liquefaction technology selected
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by Stockholm Exergi for CCS project

French industrial gases fi rm, Air
Liquide’s large-scale CO liquefaction
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technology, Cryocap LQ, has been
selected by Stockholm Exergi, a Swedish
energy company, to contribute to its
Bio-Energy Carbon Capture & Storage
(BECCS) project.

The CO liquefaction solution
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allows CO transport over long dis-
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tances to carbon sinks for permanent
storage, contributing to the viability of
Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) pro-
jects and emergence of a low-carbon
industry.

Under the framework of the agree-
ment, Air Liquide will provide the CO will be transported for permanent promoting innovative low-carbon tech-
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CO liquefaction technology and storage. nologies. According to Air Liquide,
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equipment for the BECCS project to be the Cryocap LQ technology stands out
built at an existing heat and power bio- The BECCS facility aims to liq- with its chemical-free, on-fl ammable
mass (bio-cogeneration) plant in Stock- uefy and store around 8-mt tonnes of process and compact design. The setup
holm. The liquefaction unit supplied by biogenic CO over the fi rst 10 years will also enable the recovery and
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Air Liquide will be one of the largest of operation. The project is supported reuse of heat generated from the
in the world with a capacity of 3,500 by the European Innovation Fund, one process to supply Stockholm’s district
tonnes per day. After liquefaction, the of the world’s largest programmes for heating network.
Wood to design sustainable plastics packaging

plant in Singapore for Kuraray

UK-based consulting and engineer- is fully recyclable using traditional cess of acetic acid, a critical component
ing fi rm, Wood, has been awarded a methods. of the new EVAL plant.
$40-mn engineering design contract by
Japan’s Kuraray to build a new sustain- Following the successful comple- “Eval is an important product for
able packaging plant in Singapore. tion of a front-end engineering and Kuraray showing strong growth trig-
design (FEED) study, Wood will deliver gered by increasing demand in emer-
Addressing the market shift towards engineering, procurement and con- ging economies, increasing demand
more environmentally friendly food struction management (EPCM) services for food loss reduction, and increasing
packaging materials, the new plant will for the new plant located on Jurong demand in the transition to a circular
produce Eval, Kuraray’s ethylene vinyl Island. In addition, Wood will carry out economy,” said Mr. Tomoyuki
alcohol (EVOH) copolymer. Eval is modifi cations to an existing polyvinyl Watanabe, Kuraray’s Director and
widely used in food packaging to pre- alcohol (PVA) facility adjacent to the Managing Executive Offi cer, President,
vent oxygen from spoiling the contents new plant, enabling Kuraray to stream- Vinyl Acetate Resin Company and
and unlike other competing products line the production and recovery pro- Vinyl Acetate Film Company.

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