Air Liquide (AL) recently announced that it has just signed two contracts to design and build very large units to separate gas from air, each of them with a production capacity of over 3,000 tonnes of oxygen per day: with Posco in South Korea and with Shenhua Ningxia Coal (SNC) in China.
AL has signed a sales contract for two ASU with Posco, each with a production capacity of 3,700 tonnes per day of oxygen. These are the largest production capacities ever installed for a steelmaker. The oxygen produced will allow the Gwangyang and Pohang sites to meet the Posco’s increase in global steel production in South Korea. AL has already supplied Posco with 15 ASU units on these two sites, and has been recognized by the steelmaker as the “Best supplier 2007”.
In China, AL has completed contract with the SNC, a subsidiary of the Shenhua Group, the global number two for coal production, for two ASUs, each with a production capacity of 3,000 tonnes of oxygen per day. These units, which are by far the largest ever designed and built locally, will supply the oxygen needed for the synthesis of methanol and propylene from coal gasification.
François Darchis, Senior Vice-President in charge of Global Engineering & Construction of AL, declared “These new contracts in developing economies strengthen our international leadership. They demonstrate our expertise in oxygen production technologies, to an extent previously not possible.”
