The company's solution is to follow land-based gas reforming principles: desulphurising LPG, methanising it by steam reformation and then removing carbon dioxide and water to leave SNG that can be burned in engines alongside LNG.
The company, the largest refiner in the Midwest, had reported its planned shutdown of an Coal Tar Light Oil and aromatics desulphurising unit for planned work that will last 45 days.
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Tianjin Huishengda Petroleum Technology, a local developer of refining technology, was contracted by PetroChina to pump a desulphurising agent into the oil as it was being offloaded at Dalian's Xingang oil terminal, the State Administration of Work Safety said on Friday.