France – A Joint Collaboration Agreement was inked by Technip Energies and LanzaTech Global to integrate their respective technology to forge a new route to sustainable ethylene.
Waste carbon is converted into ethylene, the most prevalent building block in petrochemicals, using a combination of Technip Energies’ Hummingbird technology and LanzaTech’s carbon capture and utilization technology.
Many different chemicals and products, such as plastics, detergents, and coatings that keep hospitals sterile, people safe, and food fresh, are made from ethylene. One of the chemical industry’s biggest contributors to carbon dioxide emissions, its conventional production method is also one of the hardest to decarbonize. Instead of using virgin fossil carbon as the beginning point, this innovative collaborative process starts with carbon emissions. First, up to 95% of the CO2 in the exhaust gas from an ethylene cracker is collected and combined with hydrogen. Next, ethanol is produced from the waste carbon that was recovered using LanzaTech’s biorecycling process. Finally, the ethanol is converted to ethylene using Technip Energies’ Hummingbird technology.
Cooperation
Since 2020, Technip Energies and LanzaTech have worked together on various environmentally friendly solutions, including a cooperation to produce EVA foam for the sole of running shoes with Borealis and On, a Swiss manufacturer of running shoes. The Hummingbird® technology is a component of the LanzaJetTM Alcohol-to-Jet process, which produces sustainable aviation fuel from ethanol. Technip Energies also collaborates with LanzaJet, an independent business that was established and separated from LanzaTech.
