EPA honors CB&I, Albemarle with Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
CB&I and its technology partner Albemarle have been awarded the 2016 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge award from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the jointly developed AlkyClean process technology, a solid acid catalyst alkylation technology jointly developed by CB&I, Albermarle and Neste Oil.
The EPA's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge program promotes the environmental and economic benefits of developing and using novel green chemistry, while recognizing individuals and organizations on a national level for successfully researching, developing and implementing such technologies.
Albemarle and CB&I, along with all other award recipients, were formally recognized on June 13 at the 2016 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Ceremony in Portland, Oregon.
"CB&I is proud to be a recipient of this prestigious award from the Environmental Protection Agency. Our AlkyClean technology provides customers in the gasoline alkylation market a solution to produce higher octane alkylate—or premium gasoline—with less environmental impact," said Philip K. Asherman, CB&I's president and CEO. "CB&I is committed to the investment and implementation of industry technology and solutions that contribute to the positive health of the environment and help our customers meet government regulations."
“Albemarle has been working side-by-side with our technology partners for several years to develop a commercially viable and safe option to produce high-quality alkylate without the use of liquid acid catalysts,” said Silvio Ghyoot, president of Albemarle’s Refining Solutions global business unit. “We are honored by this prestigious award and recognition of the unique AlkyClean technology for its potential as a game-changing technology for our refining customers.”
Albemarle’s AlkyStar catalyst, together with CB&I’s novel reactor scheme, produces high-quality alkylates, aclean fuels blending component, without the use of liquid acid catalysts in the alkylate manufacturing process. Not only is AlkyClean technology inherently safer when compared to technologies employing liquid acids, there are also environmental benefits due to the reduction of waste streams such as spent acids and acid-soluble oils.
CB&I's technology portfolio boasts additional green technologies such as its CDAlky alkylation processtechnology, which also offers an improved process to obtain high-octane, premium gasoline. Chevron Lummus Global, a joint venture between CB&I and Chevron, offers a Biofuels ISOCONVERSION process that converts renewable fat, oil and grease feedstock into high yields of pure hydrocarbon fuels. Additional proprietary technologies in the CB&I portfolio reduce sulfur in transportation fuels. These technologies offer a sustainable alternative for new projects and help revamp plants or refineries to meet US and global energy regulation changes.
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