Air Liquide has annonced that its 50,000 Nm3/hr per hour of hydrogen plant supplying the ESSO refinery at Port-Jérôme, near Le Havre, France has gone into succesful operation. This ultra modern plant is using Topsoe's hydrogen processes and catalysts, and has been built under the Air Liquide/Topsoe Alliance.

The Alliance

Topsoe and Air Liquide (Paris, France) have a strategic alliance to the effect that Air Liquide will utilise Topsoe technologies in plants to supply hydrogen, carbon monoxide and syngas to its worldwide customers.

Air Liquide will own, operate and maintain the plants and will utilise its own and other technologies for separation and purification of the final products. For more information on Air Liquide, please visit www.airliquide.com.