The plant will provide CHS with the hydrogen needed to boost efficiency and increase production at its refinery.
TechnipFMC’s project team deployed the use of a drone to access the inside of the radiant box. The drone, which captured a high-quality video of the tube surfaces, allowed the project team to safely inspect the condition of the reformer tubes after installation.
Stan Knez, Senior Vice President, Onshore Process Technology, stated: “TechnipFMC is pleased to continue our long-term relationship with CHS through this strategic project, which not only utilised our steam reforming technology as a key differentiator, but was delivered with no recordable incidents.”
TechnipFMC’s operating center in Claremont, California, US, executed the project, which included advisory services for commissioning and start-up. Previously, the operating centre provided a steam reformer and a parallel reformer for the CHS refinery in Laurel and completed two hydrogen projects for the CHS refinery in McPherson, Kansas, US.
