Expertise, technology and industrial gases Total solutions for the chemical processing industry
Air Products can help you stay competitive in the marketplace With an excellent on-time delivery record and outstanding safety performance, Air Products provides a total solutions approach to doing business. Our expertise, leading edge technologies, and worry-free supply of oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and other specialty gases can help you meet today s business challenges. 2
We understand your concerns Global competition, stringent environmental regulations, safety concerns, customer demands for higher value, and pressure to increase profits these are all common challenges for today s chemical processing industry (CPI). Air Products understands many of the issues that you are facing. We have been providing nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen as well as applications technologies and technical support to the chemical industry for decades. But we are also a specialty chemical producer, unique among the major industrial gas suppliers. So, we are intimately aware of issues that confront your business and what it takes to succeed. We face the same economic and regulatory pressures that you and your customers do. Like you, we are concerned about the environment and the safety of our people and the communities where we work and live. Our approach to customer relationships is based simply on understanding your needs first. That way, we can offer the right gases, mode of supply, technologies and technical support to help you be more successful. Air Products is capable of handling your diverse requirements and helping you: Maximize productivity Lower operating costs Improve environmental performance Enhance safety levels Improve product quality to meet your customers expectations Enhance reliability Increase return on investment We help you get more from our gases. 3
Our PolarFit size reduction systems can help you more efficiently grind materials such as rubber, plastics, carpets, adhesive and waxes, etc. Gas technologies to help improve your operations Sulfur plant using COPE oxygenenrichment technology to increase existing sulfur recovery capacity by 20% 100+%. Staying competitive often involves investing in new or better products, more efficient and safer work processes, or improved environmental compliance. Many chemical processes can be enhanced through gas technologies that help improve efficiency and quality, increase output or improve safety, which can result in lower total operating costs without significant additional capital. Because we manufacture specialty chemicals as well as industrial gases, we understand reaction chemistry, kinetics, mixing, and mass transfer issues that can be applied to your operations. 4
Air Products offerings benefit a diversified range of processes used in the CPI. Through our gas technologies, CPI players make possible many innovative products, including life-saving medicines, longer-lasting paints, to lightweight automobile parts that greatly enhance our quality of life. Pharmaceutical Coatings and paints Automobiles Powder 5
Applications/needs Chemical oxidation Combustion Gasification Fermentation Wastewater treatment Hydrogenation Safety Air Products offerings and benefits Oxygen as reactant for oxidation processes Increased capacity versus air Low-cost alternative to debottleneck limited production capacity Oxygen enrichment systems and modeling expertise Enhanced combustion and increased productivity at fluid catalytic cracking units (FCC) and sulfur recovery units (SRU) Capital cost savings Reduced emissions Oxygen enrichment for coal and biomass gasification Enhanced kinetics and improved productivity Oxygen enrichment and modeling expertise Reduced foaming and gas flooding Improved yields up to 50% Halia oxygen aeration systems Increased capacity versus air Improved productivity Hydrogen supply and optimization expertise Largest producer of hydrogen, with multiple supply options Technical expertise in gas/liquid mass transfer and modeling and computational fluid dynamics to increase yields Process safety assessment, flammability envelope of gas mixtures, gas safety and consumption audits 6
Applications/needs Inerting and blanketing Low-temperature reactions Process cooling Particle-size reduction Solvent/VOC recovery Cryogenic deflashing Tire curing Sparging/stripping Air Products offerings and benefits Nitrogen inerting control systems Safe storage and use of flammables or prevention of combustible dust explosions Improved quality and shelf life of air-sensitive materials PolarFit indirect, semidirect and direct cooling systems Liquid nitrogen is the most effective way for cooling temperatures below -40 C Faster reactions with complete control Meet quality and safety requirements Nitrogen flow control and temperature control systems Customized design cooling process Increased productivity and quality PolarFit liquid nitrogen grinding or milling Freezing with liquid nitrogen followed by grinding Gaseous nitrogen for micronisation applications Produces high-quality, very fine, uniformly sized particles Cryo-Condap nitrogen condensation systems Removed and recovered VOCs (Volatile Organic Compound) Environmental compliance Cost saving State-of-the-art deflashing equipment Liquid nitrogen cools and embrittles the parts, allowing for flash removal Maintains product quality, improves efficiency and saves cost High-purity nitrogen-steam systems Longer bladder life as oxygen level is less than 10 ppm Lower operating and maintenance costs while improving cycle time and production rates Nitrogen sparging systems Strip out volatile contaminants, improved efficiency In-vessel and in-line systems Air Products Express (APEX) Services Temporary nitrogen services Time saving, cost effective When you experience short-term or emergency industrial gas supply needs, particularly during start-ups, planned or unplanned maintenance activities, and plant and pipeline turnarounds, you need help quickly to remain online and productive. Air Products APEX Services offers a wide range of flow rates, pressures and temperatures, all delivered when you need them most. Our highperformance mobile pumping units can be quickly set up and easily adjusted to suit your needs. APEX Services saves you time, money and worry, in a safe and environmentally friendly manner. 7
A complete range of supply options to meet your needs
To meet your expectations, it is crucial that industrial gas supply is available when and where you need it. Air Products offers a wide variety of industrial gas supply options, from on-site to merchant-delivered liquid or gas, to meet your purity, volume and flow rate needs economically and effectively. With any of our supply options, Air Products is committed to providing on-time delivery of products that meet your specifications. How we work with you Industrial gas supply options Cylinders, dewars and microbulk for small- or medium-sized users. Merchant liquid Products are delivered in insulated tanks and store on-site for use as a gas after vaporization. On-site plant Gas generation systems, including membrane generators, nitrogen HN generators, nitrogen HPN systems, nitrogen standard and high-purity pressure swing adsorption (PSA) generators, oxygen vacuum swing adsorption (VSA) generators, PRISM cryogenic oxygen generation systems, hydrogen generators, etc. Air Products specialists can show you how to incorporate industrial gases into your chemical production processes to help you operate more safely and efficiently and with less impact on the environment. We can support you with: Objective analysis, process consulting, economic analysis Computer simulation Estimation and advice on safety issues New technological development Implementation and start-up Demonstration in your laboratory or pilot plants Pipeline supply A facility is usually built adjacent to or nearby our customer s facility and delivers product through a pipeline. 9
Count on our dedication to safety and sustainability Personnel and equipment safety is a paramount objective of the chemical processing industry. The challenge is to identify opportunities to upgrade the safety of existing operations without compromise. At Air Products, nothing is more important than safety not sales, not production, not profits. It is a commitment we all share and one that we share with our customers. We design and operate gas facilities worldwide to the highest safety standards. We are a safety leader in our industry and stand among the top performers of the Responsible Care program from the Association of Chemical Manufacturers (AICM). We are committed to putting our safety expertise to work for you through our safety training in using our products safely and providing safety analysis service and audits. Our stringent focus and efforts on safety have also been recognized by many industry authorities such as the Singapore Chemical Industry Council, the International Trade and Industry of Malaysia and the local governments in China, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. In addition, Air Products has received numerous awards and recognition for its commitment to sustainability: Named to the 100 Best Corporate Citizens List by Corporate Responsibility Magazine Named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indexes Named a Maplecroft Climate Innovation Indexes (CIIs) Leader Named to the Carbon Disclosure Project S&P 500 Leadership Index Named a constituent on the FTSE4Good Index Series 10
Asia Industrial Cryogenics Laboratory Located in the Air Products Asia Technology Center in Shanghai, our Asia Industrial Cryogenics Laboratory offers comprehensive technical consultation and support service from our technical experts and fully equipped facilities. Our cryogenic specialists can work with you to meet your product and process needs. We can run your product on production-scale equipment to help determine the feasibility of using cryogenics to improve your product quality or process efficiency as well as partner with you on joint R&D projects to develop new product offerings. 11
About Air Products Air Products is a leading global supplier of industrial gases, performance materials and equipment and services. We serve customers in industrial, energy, technology and healthcare markets worldwide. With fiscal 2012 revenues approaching $10 billion and operations in over 50 countries, 20,000 Air Products employees are working to build lasting relationships with our customers and communities based on understanding needs and delivering on them with integrity and passion. Through this understanding, we continually find innovative ways to help our customers win in markets around the world whilst maintaining our focus on being an industry leader in safety, health and preservation of the environment. For more information, please email us at asiacpi@airproducts.com or call our offices: Corporate Headquarters 7201 Hamilton Boulevard Allentown, PA 18195-1501 T 800-654-4567 T 800-224-2724 (Customer Service, Express Delivery Service) F 800-272-4449 China Floor 4&5, Building 72 Lane 887, Zu Chong Zhi Road Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park Shanghai, China T +86-21-3896-2000 F +86-21-5080-5555 Merchant Gases Hotline: 400-888-7662 Korea 7th Floor, Gateway Tower 12, Dongja-Dong, Yongsan-Gu Seoul, 140-709, Korea T +82-2-2170-8000 F +82-2-733-0287 Taiwan 5F, No. 21, Section 2 Chung Shan North Road Taipei 104, Taiwan, R.O.C. T +886-2-2521-4161 F +886-2-2581-8359 Malaysia Petaling Jaya Level 2, Bangunan TH Uptown 3 No. 3, Jalan SS21/39, 47400 Petaling Jaya Selangor, Malaysia T +603-7712-3668 F +603-7726-1832 Singapore 2 International Business Park The Strategy, #03-32 Singapore 609930 T +65-6494-2263 F +65-6334-1005 Indonesia Kawasan Industri Cikarang Blok F1-3 Cikarang, Bekasi Jawa Barat 17530 Indonesia Toll free 0800-100-8000 T +62-21-286-38600 F +62-21-898-40059 Thailand 11th Floor, Rajanakarn Bldg 183 South Sathorn Road Yannawa, Sathorn Bangkok 10120, Thailand T +662-685-6789 F +662-685-6790 India 7th Floor, Ceejay House Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli Mumbai 400 018 T +91 (0) 22-40323960/40323195 F +91 (0) 22-40323191/40323991 tell me more airproducts.com Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., 2013 (35505) 312-10-009-Asia-Feb13