Air Products ((Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has announced a longterm agreement with Enterprise Products Operating LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enterprise Products Partners L.P., that will increase hydrogen supply for refinery and petrochemical customers connected to Air Products’ vast Gulf Coast Connection Pipeline system. Air Products will build, own, and operate a hydrogen production facility with a capacity of 40 million standard ft3/day to process a hydrogen-rich off-gas stream from a new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) facility Enterprise is currently constructing in Mont Belvieu, Tex. The new PDH plant is scheduled to begin service in the third quarter of 2015.
Air Products has been successfully processing off-gas at Enterprise’s Mont Belvieu complex since 1994, servicing an existing facility. The new Air Products facility will use the company’s pressure-swing adsorption technology, which is already in place at numerous other locations around the world.