OMV将在奥地利投资建立甘油制丙醇工厂

据安迅思3月9日消息称，据《化学周刊》报道，OMV表示将投资3000万欧元（3600万美元）在其位于奥地利施韦夏特的精炼和石化厂建设甘油制丙醇试验工厂，生产的丙醇除了用作汽油的生物添加剂外，还将用作化学品的可持续原料。

该公司表示，建设计划于2021年第二季度开始，2023年投入使用。该工厂将使用OMV公司内部开发的一种催化剂，从废基甘油(生物柴油生产的副产品)中生产丙醇。报告称，丙醇将主要用作生物添加剂，以减少汽油的二氧化碳排放，但也有其他用途，包括“作为化学市场的可持续原料，替代化石基丙醇”。

OMV表示，投资试点工厂是经过5年研究的结果。该公司表示，新装置将位于该公司的ReOil工厂附近，该工厂从废弃塑料中生产合成油，用于其子公司Borealis运营的附近烯烃和聚烯烃工厂，因此这两个设施可以利用一个单一的测量站和协同作用。

该公司表示，该试点工厂年产125万公升丙醇的产能预计将使二氧化碳排放量减少约1800吨/年。OMV表示，长期计划是将甘油制丙醇技术商业化，每年生产1.25亿升丙醇，减少约18万吨二氧化碳排放。

OMV上个月宣布，它将与Kommunalkredit合作投资约2500万欧元，在施韦夏特建造一座电解工厂，用于生产绿色氢气。这个10兆瓦(MW)的聚合物电解质膜(PEM)电解装置将每年生产1500公吨可再生氢，工厂预计将在2023年下半年上线。

朱佳妮 摘译自 安迅思

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OMV to invest USD36 million in glycerin-to-propanol pilot plant in Austria

OMV (Vienna, Austria) says it will invest EUR30 million (USD36 million) building a glycerin-to-propanol pilot plant at its refining and petrochemicals complex at Schwechat, Austria, with the propanol produced to be used as a sustainable feedstock for chemicals, in addition to being a bio-additive for gasoline, reported Chemweek.

Construction is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2021, with the unit to be operational in 2023, it says. The plant will use a catalyst developed inhouse by OMV to produce propanol from waste-based glycerin, a byproduct from biodiesel production. The propanol will be used mainly as a bio-additive to reduce gasoline’s carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint, but with other applications to include as a “sustainable feedstock for the chemicals market as a replacement for fossil-based propanol,” it says.

The pilot plant investment follows five years of research, says OMV. The new unit will be located adjacent to the company’s ReOil plant, which produces synthetic oil from waste plastic for use in nearby olefins and polyolefins plants operated by its subsidiary Borealis, so that both facilities can utilize a single measuring station and synergies, it says.

The pilot plant’s capacity of 1.25 million metric liters/year of propanol will lead to an estimated reduction in CO2 emissions of around 1,800 metric tons/year, it says. OMV says the long-term plan is to commercialize the glycerin-to-propanol technology to produce around 125 million liters/year of propanol and reduce CO2 emissions by around 180,000 metric tons.

OMV last month announced it would invest about EUR25 million, in partnership with Kommunalkredit, building an electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen at Schwechat. The 10-megawatt (MW) polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolysis facility will produce up to 1,500 metric tons/year of renewable hydrogen, with the plant expected online in the second half of 2023.