A trio of industry-leading companies have launched the world’s first plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnaces.
The announcement comes three years after Linde, BASF and SABIC signed a joint agreement to develop and demonstrate solutions for electrically heated steam cracking furnaces.
Located at BASF’s Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, the plant aims to show that continuous olefin production is possible using electricity as a heat source.
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