ENHANCING METHANOL CAPACITY WITH TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION

Jim LoneyOctober 17, 2017Gasification & Syngas Technologies Conference

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One of the world’s largest engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction and maintenance companies

Providing innovative and integrated solutions for methanol facilities of varying sizes across the globe

More than 60,000 employees executing projects globally

Experience with all methanol licensors

Fluor has an extensive resume of major USGC Petrochemical projects

Delivering capital efficient solutions for today’s methanol projects

Integrated EPFC approach that drives to a lower TIC

Single point responsibility with financeable ‘wrap’

Zero Base ExecutionSM project delivery

Modularization ~ 15% reduction on TIC from stick built

Global Sourcing Strategies

Proprietary CO2 Technology solution for existing and new methanol facilities

ABOUT FLUOR

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3rd Gen Modular

ExecutionSM

Zero Base

ExecutionSM

Integrated EPFC

tools

Revamp and new

build methanol

facilities

Experience with

all licensors

Performance

testing

Material

management

Supply and

procurement

capability

Commercial

Strategies Group

Global supplier

agreements

Supplier quality

surveillance

Capacity to self-

perform fabrication

of modules

SMFI - Edmonton,

Canada

ICA Fluor - Tampico,

Mexico

ANGS - Sakhalin

Island, Russia

COOEC-Fluor -

Zhuhai, China

Construction

equipment

Tool program

Equipment

planning and

forecasting

Scaffolding

Blast-resistant

air shelters

Start-up and

commissioning

Operations and

Maintenance (O&M)

Plant engineering

Inspection and integrity

Asset management

solutions

Turnarounds, outages,

and shutdowns

ENGINEERING PROCUREMENT FABRICATION ANDMODULARIZATION

DIRECT HIRECONSTRUCTION

O&M MODIFICATIONAND ASSET INTEGRITY

Fully Integrated Solutions

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NTS The Concept – Econamine FG PlusSM CO2 Enhancement

Steam methane reformer (SMR) based methanol plants have excess hydrogen compared to the ideal hydrogen-to-carbon oxides ratio

Without adjustment, the purge stream will be rich in hydrogen which is typically used as reformer fuel

This purge stream can be converted to additional methanol if there is a source of carbon oxides

The source of CO2 is Fluor’s Econamine FG+ process which captures CO2 from the reformer flue gas

Adding CO2 increases the plant methanol production capacity and improves plant efficiency

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NTS The Concept – Econamine FG PlusSM CO2 Enhancement

Three Options:

1. For existing plants, add a purge converter and combine the hydrogen-rich purge stream with CO2

2. Add CO2 to the existing process and debottleneck existing equipment

3. Incorporate into the design of new facilities

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NTS The Concept - Econamine CO2 FG PlusSM Enhancement

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Simplified Econamine FG PlusSM flowsheet

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Prosint Methanol Plant, Brazil

Fluor demonstrated this concept at the Prosint methanol plant in Brazil starting in 1999 for over 15 years

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Addresses the need for an alternative to large scale new build Methanol facilities

Applicable to existing SMR based Methanol Plants which use natural gas feed stock

Divert existing purge stream from use as fuel to new purge converter

Replace diverted reformer fuel with natural gas

Use existing product storage tanks and shipping infrastructure

Methanol production increases 33% from 2800 MTPD to 3720 MTPD

Efficiency improves about 4%

Reformer stack CO2 Emissions per tonne of methanol are reduced by about 20%

Fluor Solution

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Additional equipment required:

Purge Converter/Loop

Distillation with Reboilers/Condensers

Econamine FG Plus Carbon Dioxide Capture – about 1200 tonne/day Direct Contact Cooler; Flue Gas Blower; Absorber; Stripper; CO2 Product Compressor

Plot space requirement: about 250’ by 400’

Natural Gas usage increases about 30%

Power usage increases by about 6 MW

Steam usage increases by about 135 tonne/hr

Cooling duty increases by about 600 x 106 BTU/hr

Implementation Considerations

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3D Rendering of Econamine FG PlusSM

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Summary Fluor capacity enhancement applicable to existing SMR based

Methanol Plants which use natural gas feed stock Can also be incorporated into new designs

Methanol production increases 33% from 2800 MTPD to 3720 MTPD

Incremental improvement in efficiency – about 4%

Additional benefit of reducing reformer carbon footprint by 20% - overall CO2 per tonne of methanol improves by about 4%

Alternative solution to a new large scale methanol facility

Fluor integrated EPFC execution model:

Safety in Design

Cost and Schedule Predictability

Assurance of Quality

Delivering Capital Efficiency

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NTS Using carbon dioxide recovery to increase methanol

productionContacts:

Technical : Jim Loney, Director, Process Engineering

jim.loney@fluor.com 001-949-349-7490

Sales: Sarah McKay, Director, Sales

sarah.mckay@fluor.com 001-949-349-5492

Econamine FG PlusSM process and licensing information: Satish Reddy, VP Process Technology

satish.reddy@fluor.com 001-949-349-4959 or 001-281-263-1245

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