SABIC, Scientific Design & Linde to jointly explore decarbonisation opportunities

SABIC, a global leader in the chemicals industry, Scientific Design (SD), an affiliate company licensing leader in ethylene glycol technology and Linde Engineering, a subsidiary of Linde, a leading global industrial gases and engineering company, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore collaboration opportunities to decarbonise the SD ethylene glycol (EG) process.

This collaboration will offer SABIC’s innovative CO₂ recovery and purification technology to SD licensed EG plants worldwide with the ultimate goal of establishing sustainable ethylene oxide (EO) and EG production.

SABIC’s proprietary CO₂ technology has already demonstrated its effectiveness in the world’s largest carbon capture and utilization (CCU) plant at SABIC affiliate, United. This technology has the capacity to recover and purify up to 500-ktpa of CO₂ per year. The captured CO₂ can be converted into urea, methanol, or liquefied for use in the food and beverage industry.