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Hydrogen-rich compressor packages

for refinery applications

Clauger-Technofrigo supplied engineered compression packages
for a tail gas application at a refinery in Azerbaijan.
Utilizing GEA’s largest screw compressor in the range, the GEA
model “XH”, this system is part of a modernization program of
the refinery complex in Azerbaijan

Silvana Bazzani, Head of Sales
Giuseppe Camposeo, Engineering Manager
PGE Division, Clauger Technofrigo

Clauger-Technofrigo
tail gas compression
packages featuring
GEA XH oil-flooded,
single-stage screw
compressors

lauger-Technofrigo’s hydrogen rich The PSA technology will help Azerbaijan meet the
gas compression packages were growing domestic demand for transportation fuels.
selected as part of Pressure Swing Hydrogen technology is an important element of this
Adsorption (PSA) technology to modernization program aimed to remain among the
supply high-quality hydrogen for the most advanced refineries in the region, further improving
Cmodernization of an Oil Refinery in environmental protection along with the quality of life in
Azerbaijan. Pure hydrogen is essential to the refining Azerbaijan.
process, where it is used to decontaminate oil and
facilitate catalytic processes that produce clean-burning When completed, the modernization will enable the
fuels, including those that meet Euro V standards for refinery to process 7.5 million metric tons per annum
vehicle emissions. of crude oil blended from local sources. Hydrogen is
key in the refining process, being produced as a
“Clauger-Technofrigo’s hydrogen byproduct of refining, and intentionally from a steam
rich gas compression packages methane reformer. PSA technology purifies this
were selected as part of Pressure hydrogen so it essentially can be recycled into the
Swing Adsorption (PSA) technology to refinery to remove impurities and to perform catalytic
supply high-quality hydrogen for the processes that transform crude oil into clean fuels
modernization of an Oil Refinery in and other products.
Azerbaijan

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