沙特基础工业公司计划将乙烯生产电气化

据烃加工网3月9日报道，近日，沙特基础工业公司（SABIC）与Coolbrook签署了一项协议，以评估Coolbrook的Roto Dynamic Reactor(RDR)技术，以支持脱碳乙烯生产。

沙特基础工业公司致力于实现其既定的脱碳目标——到2030年减排20%，到2050年实现碳中和——并支持客户实现自己的脱碳目标。此次合作是沙特基础工业公司众多积极项目之一，旨在减少并最终消除制造设施的二氧化碳排放，并为客户的能源转型之旅提供支持。一个非常有前景的选择是蒸汽裂解工厂的电气化，与可再生能源的使用相结合，有可能将与乙烯和丙烯生产相关的范围1和2排放减少90%以上。

SABIC Ventures总经理Aruna Subramanian表示，这重申了SABIC承诺到2050年通过蒸汽裂解炉电气化等多种途径实现碳中和。与Coolbrook的RDR技术等外部创新的合作和支持，证明了SABIC有兴趣推动我们的行业和世界向前发展。

除了推进近期可用电气化技术的商业化，SABIC通过其全球企业风险投资部门SABIC Ventures，继续激励行业生态系统，并投资于一系列早期技术，期望其中一些技术一旦完全开发，可以商业化，以支持SABIC和更广泛的石化行业向碳中和过渡。SABIC认为，合作和伙伴关系是实现其雄心勃勃的气候目标的关键，符合行业的增长愿望。

Coolbrook首席执行官Joonas Rauramo表示，“SABIC是石油化工领域的全球领导者，我们已经在荷兰建立了密切的合作关系，两家公司在荷兰都有着强大的影响力。我们相信，我们携手合作，可以对减少乙烯生产对当地和全球的气候影响产生重大影响”。

SABIC已经与合作伙伴巴斯夫（BASF）和林德（Linde）合作开发和商业化技术解决方案，以应对与电动蒸汽裂解相关的挑战，并预计将于2023年晚些时候投产世界上第一个商业示范规模的电动裂解设施。此外，SABIC还选择了采用SABIC- basf - linde技术的裂解炉电气化，将其纳入其第一个采用者计划，其目标是在未来几年内在其一个制造设施中运行一个完全商业规模的电裂解炉。

郝芬 译自 烃加工网

原文如下：

SABIC setting its sights on the electrification of ethylene production

SABIC has signed an agreement with Coolbrook to assess Coolbrook’s Roto Dynamic Reactor (RDR) technology in support of decarbonizing ethylene production.

SABIC is committed to achieving its stated decarbonization ambitions – 20% reduction by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050 – and in supporting customers in achieving their own decarbonization ambitions. This new collaboration is one of SABIC’s many active programs aimed at reducing, and ultimately eliminating, the CO2 emissions from manufacturing facilities as well as supporting customers on their energy transition journeys. One very promising option is the electrification of steam cracking plants, which in conjunction with the use of renewable power has the potential to reduce the Scope 1 and 2 emissions linked with ethylene and propylene production by over 90%.

Aruna Subramanian, Managing Director, SABIC Ventures, said, “This reaffirms SABIC’s commitment to becoming carbon neutral by 2050 through, among many pathways, the electrification of steam crackers. Collaborations with, and support of external innovations, such as Coolbrook’s RDR technology, is a testament to SABIC’s interest in driving our industry and world forward.”

In addition to pressing ahead with the commercialization of near term available electrification technology, SABIC, via SABIC Ventures, its global corporate venturing arm, continues to stimulate the industry ecosystem and invest in a pipeline of early stage technologies with the expectation that some of these, once fully developed, can be commercialized to support SABIC’s and the wider petrochemicals industry’s transition towards carbon neutrality. SABIC believes collaboration and partnership are key to achieving its ambitious climate targets in line with the industry’s growth aspirations.

Joonas Rauramo, CEO of Coolbrook, said: “SABIC is a global leader in petrochemicals, and we have already established a close cooperation relationship in The Netherlands, where both companies have a strong presence. We are confident that together we can have a significant impact on reducing the climate impact from ethylene production here and globally.”

SABIC is already working with partners BASF and Linde to develop and commercialize technological solutions to the challenges associated with electrically powered steam cracking and anticipates the commissioning of the world’s-first commercial-demonstration scale electrically powered cracking facility later in 2023. Furthermore, SABIC has selected cracker electrification with the SABIC-BASF-Linde technology for inclusion in its 1st Adopter Program with the ambition for having a full commercial-scale electrical cracking furnace in operation at one of its manufacturing facilities within the next several years.