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3D model Casing structures Final completed assembly

Figure 6 – Taranto plant from 3D model to operational in refinery

scale production of hydrogen at fuel station for the assembly, plant operation and pre-commissioning
hydrogen vehicles. phases (see Figure 6).
The Reactor-Syngas cooling process package is the
core of SCT-CPO technology and was designed taking
Third plant with SCT-CPO into account the experience in engineering and
technology a commercial scale construction of the two previous projects (Milazzo, Zero
Regio) and the operating experience of the Milazzo pilot
demonstration plant plant.

(Taranto refinery project – 2019/2021)
For any innovative technology the final and most Future Scale-up of the process
challenging experience is the “scale up” to industrial for higher capacities
maturity for commercial operation. Fores has
successfully accomplished this step in an integrated and enabling design features
plant-type solution provided for Taranto Refinery, with a
production design of 10’000 Nmc/h of hydrogen. On the basis of engineering and operating experience
Based on the positive experience of the syngas cooler in three CPO plants, in the past years Fores has also
proposed by Fores for the pilot plant in Milazzo, the explored the scale-up potential of the CPO process and
Client entrusted Fores with the development of the best its adaption to various client’s downstream applications
solution for syngas cooling and its complete design in several engineering studies:
both from thermal and mechanical point of view. - a 15,000 Nm3/h unit to produce hydrogen for a 20
Also in this case, Fores proposed a coil-type heat MW hydrogen Combined Cycle gas turbine power
exchanger and carried out its complete design (from plant for an Italian power producer;
conceptual to detail engineering) with the objective of - a 10,000 Nm3/h unit for debottlenecking a steam
obtaining the best integration with the SCT-CPO reformer in a refinery;
reactor, which was based on the Client’s IP. - a 8,000 Nm3/h unit with temperature control and
The plant has been contracted on a LSTK basis, integrated CO-shift heat exchanger;
starting from a basic engineering developed by ENI. - a single stream 600,000 Nm3/h CPO unit for a mega-
The activity involved the process and detail engineering, methanol plant for a Middle East client.
the complete engineering and construction of critical
process package (Mixer-Reactor-syngas cooler, see For the last on the list, a new single stream “mixer-
Figure 5), module engineering and packaged unit reactor-syngas cooler” concept for a capacity of
construction, as well as assistance on the site during 600.000 Nm3/h has been developed. Such large gas

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