Successful demonstration in Dunkirk of the CO₂ capture DMX™ process
Operational since April 2023 on ArcelorMittal’s Dunkirk site, the industrial pilot for the capture of CO₂ present in blast furnace gases has delivered promising results. The objective of this pilot is to validate the DMX™ capture process, developed by IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and marketed by Axens, to enable the decarbonization of a whole range of industrial activities, including steelworks, cement plants, glassware manufacture, refining, chemicals and petrochemicals.
Successful startup of Axens’ Residue Hydrocracking Unit and High Conversion Hydrocracking Unit at Shenghong’s Integrated Refinery Axens 渣油加氢裂化及高转化率加氢裂化装置在盛虹炼化一体化项目中 成功投产
Axens’ designed 3.2 MMTPA ebullated-bed residue hydrocracking (H-Oil®) unit and 3.5 MMTPA distillates hydrocracking (HyKTM) unit and Naphtha Hydrotreating (NHT) unit were successfully started at Shenghong Refining & Chemical(Lianyungang)Co.Ltd’s crude to para-xylene complex in China’s province of Jiangsu.
Petrochemicals
High-conversion Hydrocracking
Ebullated Bed Hydrocracking
Hydrocracking
Michelin, IFPEN and Axens inaugurate the first industrial-scale demonstrator of a plant producing butadiene from bioethanol in France
Today, Michelin, IFPEN and Axens inaugurated the first industrial-scale demonstrator of a plant producing bio-based butadiene in France, at Michelin’s site in Bassens near Bordeaux. The demonstrator was built within the framework of the BioButterfly project, involving the three partners, and supported by ADEME (French Agency for Environment and Energy Management) with the aim of developing and commercializing butadiene from ethanol derived from biomass (plants), to replace butadiene from petrochemicals.
Norsk e-Fuel contracts Paul Wurth (SMS group) to carry out a FEED study integrating Axens technologies for the first e-Fuel plant
Norsk e-Fuel selects SMS group subsidiary Paul Wurth to engineer and design one of the worldwide first industrial sized e-Fuel production sites in Mosjøen, Norway. Based on an integrated technological set-up provided by Paul Wurth (SMS group) and Axens, the Norwegian project developer Norsk e-Fuel will convert water and CO2 to renewable, synthetic fuel for the aviation industry.