Sinopec buys waste heat system

Date: 
August 03, 2012
Sinopec, one of China’s top integrated petrochemical companies, is installing waste heat to energy and emission reducing system. To be online in 2013 at its Hainan petrochemical plant, it is UK-listed Wasabi Energy's first sale into China.

The 4.0 Mw Kalina technology power plant will capture waste heat from the paraxylene (PX) process stream and turn it into zero emission electricity as well as reducing the overall greenhouse gas emissions from the petrochemical plant.

John Byrne, Wasabi’s executive chairman, said the contract with Sinopec marked the beginning of “many commercial opportunities within China where there is accelerated development of energy efficiency and clean industrial development”.

The Kalina Cycle can be applied using heat from industrial processes or renewable heat sources such as geothermal and solar thermal applications.