ENV-11-51 Demonstration of CO2 Capture & Sequestration for Steam Methane Reforming Process for Large Scale Hydrogen Production

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In June 2010, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) selected Air Products as a recipient of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding to design, construct and operate a state-of-the-art system to capture CO2 from two steam methane reformers (SMRs) located within the Valero Refinery in Port Arthur, TX. The CO2 removal technology will be retrofitted to the SMRs, which produce hydrogen to assist in the manufacture of petrochemicals and the making of cleaner burning transportation fuels by refinery customers on Air Products’ Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline network. Air Products has signed the necessary commercial agreements with Valero Energy Corporation (Valero) and Denbury Onshore, LLC (Denbury) to proceed with a planned carbon capture and sequestration project in Port Arthur, Texas. Valero is providing the additional land and rights-of-way required for the project, in addition to supplying utilities to support the CO2 Capture Project. Air Products will supply the purified and compressed CO2 to Denbury for injection into Denbury’s enhanced oil recovery projects in Texas. Beginning in late 2012, approximately one million tons of CO2 annually will be recovered and purified by Air Products.