Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) to provide technology, engineering and procurement services for a grassroots hydrogen plant in Baytown, Texas. The 3.5 million standard cubic meters per day plant will produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide to be supplied to customers from Air Products’ established Gulf Coast Hydrogen and CO Pipeline Networks.
The plant will be built through the global hydrogen alliance between Air Products and Technip. It will feature Technip’s proprietary high efficiency steam methane reforming (SMR) technology to produce high purity H2, CO and export steam. It will also use the latest nitrogen-oxide-reduction technology to reduce emissions.
Technip’s operating center in Claremont, Calif. will execute the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2018.