据ICIS网站4月14日消息 Equale和MEGlobal前首席执行官表示，美国的裂解装置最终将以氢气而不是天然气作为主要能源，以显著降低碳足迹。
Ramesh Ramachandran在接受ICIS采访时说：“我认为在美国会发生的是，许多裂解装置将使用氢气作为燃料，因为裂解装置是巨大的能源消耗者。而一旦氢成为驱动力，塑料本身就碳足迹而言就变得更加绿色。”
Ramachandran于2017-2020年担任科威特聚乙烯生产商Equale的首席执行官，2009-2017年担任阿联酋乙二醇生产商MEGlobal的首席执行官，目前是梅格文咨询公司的负责人。
他指出，在来自下游装置的塑料中添加可回收成分将进一步改善裂解装置的环境状况。
Ramachandran表示：“如果你说你在美国使用的任何包装材料都至少含有30%的可回收成分，那么我认为你将从生态系统中带走近70-80%的（碳）。”
他指出，用于加热裂解装置的氢气将彻底改变乙烯和下游产品（如聚乙烯和乙二醇）的碳足迹，用于能源密集型化学工业。
“你需要从太阳能（和风能）发电，然后将其转化为氢气，然后将氢气送入裂解装置，这就是为什么这至少需要5年的时间，但要实现这一目标的压力非常大。”
这将需要零排放可再生能源制成的绿色氢气。
王磊 摘译自 ICIS
原文如下：
US crackers will be fuelled by hydrogen to reduce carbon footprint
NEW YORK (ICIS)--US crackers will eventually be fuelled by hydrogen rather than natural gas as the main energy source to significantly bring down their carbon footprint, the former CEO of Equate and MEGlobal said.
“What I think will happen in the US is a lot of the crackers will go to hydrogen as their fuel because crackers are huge consumers of energy. And once hydrogen becomes the driver, the plastic itself becomes a lot greener in terms of its carbon footprint,” said Ramesh Ramachandran in an interview with ICIS.
Ramachandran was CEO of Kuwait-based polyethylene (PE) producer EQUATE from 2017-2020 and CEO of UAE-based ethylene glycols (EG) producer MEGlobal from 2009-2017. He is now principal at consultancy MEGVIN Advisors.
Adding recycled content to plastics coming out of downstream units would further improve the environmental profile of the crackers, he noted.
“If you say that any packaging material you use in the US will have at least 30% recycled content, then I think you will have taken almost 70-80% of the [carbon] out of the ecosystem. And then you have pretty much won the war,” said Ramachandran.
Hydrogen used to heat crackers would completely change the carbon footprint of ethylene and downstream products such as polyethylene (PE) and ethylene glycol (EG) for the energy intensive chemical industry, he noted.
“You will need to generate the power from solar [and wind] and convert this to hydrogen and then get that hydrogen to a cracker which is why this is at least 5 years away. But the pressure is very high to get there,” said Ramachandran.
This would be the green hydrogen made from renewable energy with zero emissions.
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