Atlas Copco Gas and Process, whose offerings include LNG equipment, will be supplying carbon-dioxide compression to one of Europe’s most ambitious renewable biofuels plant projects.
The Atlas Copco equipment will be used in an 820,000-tons-a-year biofuels facility, located at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery.
Atlas Copco's LNG offerings include the GZ oil-free compressor for the LNG carrier market and boil-off gas handling and fuel gas boosting.
“Once completed, the facility will be among Europe’s largest for the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable diesel and renewable naphtha made from biowaste,” said Atlas Copco.
The company noted that a facility of this size could produce enough renewable diesel to avoid 2,800,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions a year.
That’s the equivalent of taking more than 1 million European cars off the roads. Atlas Copco said its turbocompressor will also support CO2 transportation.
“In addition to the fuel production, an essential building block of Shell’s endeavour is the carbon capture and pipeline transport of CO2,” said the Cologne, Germany-based company.
“The different plant processes, including blue hydrogen, will be compressed to a pressure of 42.5 bar by the Atlas Copco Gas and Process’ five-stage turbocompressor. The machine is designed to compress 43.5 t/h,” said the company.
