Our Gases Division placed a major order with our US subsidiary Linde Process Plants (LPP) in the fiscal year 2007.
This entails building a second hydrogen plant at our Lemont site in Illinois and then supplying the neighbouring refinery, run by CITGO Petroleum Corporation, with around 1.3 million standard cubic metres (scm) of H2 per day.
CITGO will use the hydrogen to treat high-sulphur (or sour) crude oil from Canadian oil sands.
We also constructed hydrogen plants in Salt Lake City, Utah, and in Mobile, Alabama, both of which went on stream in 2007.
With a capacity of 700,000 scm a day, the steam methane reformer (SMR) in Salt Lake City provides several refineries with pure hydrogen, including Chevron and Holly refineries.
The Mobile plant has a capacity of around 300,000 scm a day and supplies H2 to the local Shell refinery.
Our Engineering Division won two additional contracts for hydrogen plants - one from Markwest Hydrogen Inc. in the US, and the other from our Taiwanese customer CPDC in Kaohsiung.
| At a glance |
| Name: | Hydrogen plant |
| Country: | US. |
| Raw material: | crude oil |
| Process technology: | Desulphurisation of crude oil |
| Cooperation partner: | ADNOC |
| More information: | Hydrogen production |
