Axens signs contract with Shell Deutschland GmbH to supply industrial scale Electrical Tubular Heater based on its Heurtey Petrochem Solutions technology
Axens, has been awarded by Shell Deutschland GmbH the Engineering, Procurement and Fabrication contract to supply Electrical Tubular Heater for Shell’s Base Oil Distillation Unit in Wesseling, Germany.
While Shell Deutschland GmbH had earlier this year announced its final investment decision to repurpose its European Shell Energy & Chemicals Park Rheinland in Wesseling, Axens’ Heurtey Petrochem Solutions, a global leader in process furnaces, will contribute to the site’s plan for electrification by providing its unique Electrical Tubular Radiant Heater solution.
Heurtey Petrochem Solutions’ Electrical Tubular Heater operates without direct emissions to the atmosphere, neither CO2 nor NOx, providing an alternative to traditional process fired heaters. Based on a fine tuning of the heat flux density, the Electrical Tubular Heater is designed to operate in very demanding process conditions and to a scale and standards adapted to industry present demand while benefiting from Heurtey Petrochem Solutions experience including references of electrical tubular heaters since the late 1990’s.
In a global context of industry decarbonization, Axens and Heurtey Petrochem Solutions provides support to a wide range of industrial actors to lower the carbon footprint of their installations, either for grass-root units or for existing assets.
Photo caption: Signing ceremony with, from left to right, Quentin Debuisschert, Chief Executive Officer of Axens, Hervé Lavieu, Vice-President Furnaces Product Line for Axens’ Heurtey Petrochem Solutions, Silvia Rossini, Sales Regional Manager for Axens’ Heurtey Petrochem Solutions, Amu Arenja, Senior Project Manager Shell Deutschland GmbH, and Marijn Bezuijen, Project Director Rheinland Transformation at Shell.
We are honored that our solution fits with Shell project objectives while lowering CO2 emissions and reducing carbon footprint. Thanks to its proven technology, our Electrical Tubular Heater is ready to answer to the new challenges met by our clients in their decarbonization journey. Axens’ Heurtey Petrochem Solutions demonstrates its ability to act proactively for the energy transition at industrial level, with a solution tailored to meet a wide variety of customer plant typologies.
Shell Deutschland GmbH
About Axens
The Axens Group (www.axens.net) offers a complete range of solutions for the conversion of oil and biomass into cleaner fuels, the production and purification of major petrochemical intermediates, the chemical recycling of plastics, natural gas treatment and conversion options, water treatment and carbon capture. Their offer includes technologies, equipment, furnaces, modular units, catalysts, adsorbents and related services. Axens is ideally positioned to cover the entire value chain, from feasibility studies to start-up and monitoring of units throughout their lifecycle. This unique position guarantees optimum performance and a reduced environmental footprint. Axens' international offering is based on highly qualified human resources, modern production facilities and an extensive global network for industrial, technical support and sales services. Axens is an IFP Energies Nouvelles Group company.
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About Heurtey Petrochem Solutions
Heurtey Petrochem Solutions is a world leader in process furnaces for refining, petrochemicals, syngas and hydrogen markets. Heurtey Petrochem Solutions provides a comprehensive offer including the design and manufacturing of Process Furnaces; Waste heat recovery units as well as process feasibility studies and other services. In 2018, Axens acquired 100% of the shares of Heurtey Petrochem. From 2019, the furnace activities and services operate under the Heurtey Petrochem Solutions brand.
About Shell Energy & Chemicals Park Rheinland
The Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland is located in the south of Cologne. Up to 3,000 people produce around ten percent of the diesel and petrol consumed in Germany, about 15 percent of the jet fuel, and products for the chemical industry. Shell is currently setting the course for forward-looking energy transition projects at this site for pioneering energy transition projects. These include the operation of a plant for the production of sustainable hydrogen, REFHYNE I (10 MW) and – currently in construction – another hydrogen electrolysis plant, REFHYNE II (100 MW), a bio-LNG plant for low-CO2 truck fuel, and the conversion of the previous crude oil processing at the Wesseling plant into a state-of-the-art base oil plant from 2025.