Tranter to supply heat exchangers to carbon capture application

The heat exchangers were ordered by a major EPC contractor in gas processing, separation and liquefaction technologies. While the engineering and procurement activities were done by their entity in India, the decision making, and purchase order was managed by their headquarters in Germany. The blue hydrogen plant will be built in Texas, US, and will supply hydrogen and nitrogen for the production of blue ammonia in the region and will provide clean hydrogen to companies in the US Gulf Coast, decarbonising their operations.

"Tranter was an early runner with plate and frame heat exchangers in post combustion carbon capture pilot plants back in 2010 - 2011, where we gained in-depth knowledge of the application, process, design and operation of carbon capture plants. As carbon capture plants now are commercialising to meet the global net zero goals, Tranter is a trusted advisor for the engineering companies during their engineering and design, and to the end user during operation of the plant with our service presence in Houston," said Thomas Cassirer, Director EPC & Global Energy, Tranter.

The heat exchangers will be used as vent condensers and for heat recovery between the lean and rich solvent, where the rich solvent have absorbed the CO₂ from a gas stream and need to be heated prior to entering the desorption column where the CO₂ is separated from the solvent making it lean. The lean solvent in turn needs to be cooled down before being reintroduced to the absorber. Tranter's plate and frame heat exchangers used for vent condenser will condense any evaporated solvent in the desorption step back into the column.

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