Germany-headed The Linde Group and Evonik Industries intensify gas separation collaboration enabling Linde to offer a complete gas separation and purification portfolio.
Global gas technology and engineering company The Linde Group and the specialty chemicals group Evonik Industries have announced intensified collaboration in membrane-based gas separation within the framework of the groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of Evonik’s membrane production facility held in Schörfling, Austria on September 30.
Evonik’s polymer-based membrane technology will be used in the gas separation and purification plants of Linde’s Engineering Division. With this, Linde completes its portfolio, combining all relevant gas separation processes within one company. Evonik’s SEPURAN membranes enable efficient selective separation of gases such as methane, nitrogen, helium, and hydrogen from gas mixtures.
The collaboration between Evonik and Linde has already resulted in a reference plant for helium purification in Mankota, Canada, which started up in August of this year; this first-of-its-kind helium purification facility uses a hybrid process of membrane and Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) technology. The new plant processes 250,000 cubic meters of crude gas every day, producing industrial-quality helium of 99.999 percent purity.
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