Haltermann Carless installs last major component for hydrogenation plant (Source: Haltermann Carless)
Haltermann Carless (www.haltermann-carless.com), a company of HCS Group (Hamburg, Germany; www.h-c-s-group.com) and a leading supplier of high-value hydrocarbon solutions, has completed the installation of the main components at the new hydrogenation plant in Speyer, Germany, with the installation of a 70 metric ton tank container.
The 320-m3 tank will collect intermediate products, which will be fed back into the hydrogenation process in a further stage and then processed into products ready for sale. This will maximize the yield of valuable products from the raw materials and optimize the site’s recycling management.
The 20-m long and 5-m dia. component was placed on a foundation with two mobile cranes and will be later covered with sand and planted over.
The hydrogenation plant will be put into operation mid-2020. Three types of raw materials will be processed in the new hydrogenation plant: pentanes, which are used as blowing agents in insulation materials, naphtha, which is roughly equivalent to crude gasoline, and gas oil, which is very similar to diesel fuel.