据MRCHUB网站7月20日莫斯科报道，法国液空集团表示，通过其工程和建造部门，将与美国石化建设工程商凯洛格公司（KBR）合作，提供基于自热重整（ATR）技术的完全集成的低碳氨解决方案。

法国液化空气集团是ATR技术的全球领导者，ATR技术是大规模生产低碳氢气的最佳解决方案之一，然后与氮气结合生产低碳氨。世界领先的氨技术公司KBR提供的解决方案也将有助于全球低碳氢市场的发展，因为氢转化为氨后，可以很容易地进行长距离运输。

液空集团将提供其在自热重整方面独特的专有技术，而KBR将提供其在合成氨生产技术方面的专业知识和世界领先地位。液空集团凭借近70年的经验，在氧基ATR技术领域确立了领先地位。自1943年以来，KBR已在全球授权、设计或建造了250多个基层氨厂。液空集团和KBR解决方案可以实现卓越的能源效率和世界领先的可靠性，其生产过程还可以在高度集成的工业设施中结合碳捕获技术，实现高达99%的碳捕集率。

2022年全球氨市场规模达到780亿美元，预计到2030年将超过1290亿美元；根据Precedence Research的数据显示，预计在2022年至2030年期间，这一数字将以年均6.5%的速度增长。如今，氨主要用作农业肥料。

从长远来看，液空集团和KBR将共同努力，为成为能源转型关键推动者的低碳氢开发形成助力。

氨可以很容易地长途运输，而且已经建立了大规模生产、运输和利用氨的全球供应链基础设施。一旦运输，氨可以转化回氢，有助于工业和交通的脱碳。2023年3月，液空集团宣布在比利时安特卫普港建设一座工业规模的氨裂解中试工厂。利用创新技术，该工厂将以优化的碳足迹将氨转化为氢。

郝芬 译自 MRCHUB

原文如下：

Air Liquide and KBR to offer ATR-based low-carbon ammonia and hydrogen technologies

Air Liquide, through its Engineering & Construction Division, will work with KBR to offer fully integrated low-carbon ammonia solutions based on Autothermal Reforming (ATR) technology, said the company.

Air Liquide is a world leader in ATR technology, one of the most suitable solutions for large-scale production of low-carbon hydrogen (H2), which is then combined with nitrogen (N2) to produce low-carbon ammonia (NH3). The solutions provided with KBR, the world leader in ammonia technology, will also contribute to the development of a global low-carbon hydrogen market as, when transformed into ammonia, hydrogen can be easily transported over long distances.

Air Liquide will provide its unique and proprietary expertise in Autothermal Reformer (ATR), and KBR its mastery and world leadership in ammonia production technology. Air Liquide has established its leadership in oxygen-based ATR technology through nearly seven decades of experience. Since 1943, KBR has licensed, engineered, or constructed over 250 grassroot ammonia plants worldwide. 

The Air Liquide and KBR solutions can achieve outstanding energy efficiency and world-leading reliability with a production process which also allows for a carbon capture rate of up to 99% in highly integrated industrial facilities when combined with carbon capture technology.

The global ammonia market size reached Ca. 78 billion US dollars in 2022 and is projected to surpass 129 billion US dollars by 2030; it is expected to grow by 6.5% per year on average between 2022 and 2030, according to Precedence Research. Today, ammonia is mainly used as a fertilizer for agriculture.

In the longer term, Air Liquide and KBR will work together to contribute to the development of low-carbon hydrogen as a key enabler of the energy transition. 

Ammonia can be easily transported over long distances and a global supply chain infrastructure is already in place for the production, transportation and utilization of ammonia at large scale. once transported, ammonia can be converted back into hydrogen to contribute to the decarbonization of industry and mobility. In March 2023, Air Liquide announced the construction of an industrial scale ammonia cracking pilot plant in the port of Antwerp, Belgium. Using innovative technology, this plant will make it possible to convert, with an optimized carbon footprint, ammonia into hydrogen.