據安迅思3月9日消息稱，據《化學周刊》報道，OMV表示將投資3000萬歐元（3600萬美元）在其位于奧地利施韋夏特的精煉和石化廠建設甘油制丙醇試驗工廠，生產的丙醇除了用作汽油的生物添加劑外，還將用作化學品的可持續原料。

該公司表示，建設計劃于2021年第二季度開始，2023年投入使用。該工廠將使用OMV公司內部開發的一種催化劑，從廢基甘油(生物柴油生產的副產品)中生產丙醇。報告稱，丙醇將主要用作生物添加劑，以減少汽油的二氧化碳排放，但也有其他用途，包括“作為化學市場的可持續原料，替代化石基丙醇”。

OMV表示，投資試點工廠是經過5年研究的結果。該公司表示，新裝置將位于該公司的ReOil工廠附近，該工廠從廢棄塑料中生產合成油，用于其子公司Borealis運營的附近烯烴和聚烯烴工廠，因此這兩個設施可以利用一個單一的測量站和協同作用。

該公司表示，該試點工廠年產125萬公升丙醇的產能預計將使二氧化碳排放量減少約1800噸/年。OMV表示，長期計劃是將甘油制丙醇技術商業化，每年生產1.25億升丙醇，減少約18萬噸二氧化碳排放。

OMV上個月宣布，它將與Kommunalkredit合作投資約2500萬歐元，在施韋夏特建造一座電解工廠，用于生產綠色氫氣。這個10兆瓦(MW)的聚合物電解質膜(PEM)電解裝置將每年生產1500公噸可再生氫，工廠預計將在2023年下半年上線。

朱佳妮 摘譯自 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.