Project One Everything You Need to Know About Europe’s Most Sustainable Cracker

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With a whooping investment of 4+ billion euros, Project One—Europe’s most sustainable cracker—is the largest investment in the region’s chemical sector in the past 2 decades. The project is expected to produce 1.5 million tonnes of ethylene annually and will have a carbon footprint of less than half of the 10 % best-performing steam crackers in Europe!

Located in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium, this revolutionary project aims to transform the European chemical industry like never before. Project One is the brainchild of UK-based firm Ineos, one of the largest chemical producers in the world, and involves the development of a new ethane cracker which is expected to produce 1.5 million tonnes of ethylene by using ethane as feedstock as opposed to naphtha.

Ethane and naphtha are two critical feedstocks for industrial steam crackers, however, most of the crackers in Europe use naphtha as a feedstock primarily because the aging and old crackers have only been designed to process naphtha which involves an energy-intensive cracking process. Whereas, Project One will make use of ethane as it’s an energy efficient feedstock as compared to naphtha, and requires less energy for cracking.