12-09-2024

Shell selects electrical tubular heaters from Axens for their base oil distillation unit in Wesseling

Axens, has been awarded by Shell Deutschland GmbH the Engineering, Procurement and Fabrication contract to supply Electrical Tubular Heater for Shell’s Base Oil Distillation Unit in Wesseling, Germany.

While Shell Deutschland GmbH had earlier this year announced its final investment decision to repurpose its European Shell Energy & Chemicals Park Rheinland in Wesseling, Axens’ Heurtey Petrochem Solutions, a global leader in process furnaces, will contribute to the site’s plan for electrification by providing its unique Electrical Tubular Radiant Heater solution.

Heurtey Petrochem Solutions’ Electrical Tubular Heater operates without direct emissions to the atmosphere, neither CO2 nor NOx, providing an alternative to traditional process fired heaters. Based on a fine tuning of the heat flux density, the Electrical Tubular Heater is designed to operate in very demanding process conditions and to a scale and standards adapted to industry present demand while benefiting from Heurtey Petrochem Solutions experience including references of electrical tubular heaters since the late 1990’s.

In a global context of industry decarbonization, Axens and Heurtey Petrochem Solutions provides support to a wide range of industrial actors to lower the carbon footprint of their installations, either for grass-root units or for existing assets.

Photo caption: Signing ceremony with, from left to right, Quentin Debuisschert, Chief Executive Officer of Axens, Hervé Lavieu, Vice-President Furnaces Product Line for Axens’ Heurtey Petrochem Solutions, Silvia Rossini, Sales Regional Manager for Axens’ Heurtey Petrochem Solutions, Amu Arenja, Senior Project Manager Shell Deutschland GmbH, and Marijn Bezuijen, Project Director Rheinland Transformation at Shell.

“We are honored that our solution fits with Shell project objectives while lowering CO2 emissions and reducing carbon footprint. Thanks to its proven technology, our Electrical Tubular Heater is ready to answer to the new challenges met by our clients in their decarbonization journey. Axens’ Heurtey Petrochem Solutions demonstrates its ability to act proactively for the energy transition at industrial level, with a solution tailored to meet a wide variety of customer plant typologies” Hervé Lavieu, Axens’ Heurtey Petrochem Solutions’ Vice-President Furnaces Product Line.