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Renewables

Shell, Dow test electricity-based cracking

by Alexander H. Tullo
June 25, 2022 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 100, Issue 23

 

An electrified cracking test unit.
Credit: Dow
Dow and Shell are testing electrified steam cracking in Amsterdam.

Dow and Shell have started up a small unit in Amsterdam to test their electric steam cracking concept. The companies hope to generate data that will allow them to retrofit gas-fired furnaces. They aim to deploy a larger, multimegawatt pilot plant by 2025. Ultimately, the firms say, powering an ethylene cracker with renewable electricity could reduce the emissions related to the ethylene production process by 90%.

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