Topsoe will provide its sustainable flue-gas
treatment technology SNOXTM, the company said in a statement.
Essar had earlier this
year created a new entity to drive low carbon projects in the UK and India over
the next five years. Essar Energy Transition (EET), the new unit, would invest
across its site at Stanlow, between Liverpool and Manchester and in India for
developing low carbon energy transition projects.
The company said its overall decarbonisation
strategy plans to reduce refinery emissions with two projects – industrial
carbon capture (ICC) at Stanlow which aims to be operational by 2028, and
hydrogen fuel switching from natural gas to hydrogen as fuel source.
The projects will
result in annual emissions reduction of about 1 million tons of CO2 each.
With the selection of
Topsoe and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Essar Oil UK has identified most of its
technology partners and is ready to progress to the front-end engineering
design (FEED) phase of the project. Development of the basic engineering design
packages (BEDP) for the licensed technologies is already ongoing.