Air Liquide has announced it has signed a long-term contract with Yutianhua, Shaanxi Yulin Natural Gas Chemical Industry, for an air separation unit (ASU), which will supply Yutianhua with oxygen and nitrogen for coal gasification processes.
Under the terms of the agreement, Air Liquide will invest around €60m in a new large ASU, with a production capacity of 2,700 tonnes of oxygen per day.
The ASU, designed and built by Air Liquide Hangzhou, the Air Liquide engineering centre in China, will use Air Liquide’s latest technologies, providing both high reliability and energy efficiency.
Yutianhua, a natural gas based methanol player in China, has a current production capacity of 510 thousand tonnes per year.
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