Linde has received an order from Ruhr Oel GmbH for the turn-key installation of five new cracking furnaces for an ethylene plant at the company's Gelsenkirchen-Scholven site, valued at 130 million euros. Ruhr OelGmbH is a joint venture between Deutsche BP AG and Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., the Venezuelan state oil company. The five new, identical, state-of-the-art furnaces, each boasting a capacity of approximately 100,000 tons of ethylene pa, have a broad processing spectrum: from heavy hydrocarbons to naphtha and gaseous feedstocks. During a routine shutdown of the plant in September 2007, the existing furnaces will be dismantled and their new replacements transported to the site and installed.
The new plants will replace 17 existing older-generation furnaces, which no longer comply with today's environmental requirements with regard to nitric oxide (NOx) and dust emissions as well as energy efficiency..
14-Apr-06 
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