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Feedstock
Towards renewable feedstock

We need to move away from fossil feedstock. The sooner the better. We see new sustainable applications for biomass, but also for carbon dioxide and hydrogen.

Moving to renewable resources

Green gas

Natural gas is used for a wide variety of purposes. Heating, producing base chemicals like ethylene or propylene, cracking into hydrogen and carbon dioxide, etc. Natural gas is readily available in the Chemport region. Still, much effort will be taken to move away from natural gas and use renewable resources instead.

Reducing green house gas emissions

Green electricity

The rather flat coastal regions are ideal for wind turbines. Even better are the wind parks on the North Sea (north of the Wadden islands). Many plants and private houses produce energy through solar panels.

Renewable feedstock

Biomass and agricultural residues

Biomass is a readily availabe source of renewable carbon. Therefore, it is a suitable platform for chemicals. For example saccharides, extraced from sugar beets. But through biorefinery, more biomass can be turned into sugars and valuable chemical building blocks. This is a focus area in Chemport Europe.

Carbon capture technologies

Carbon dioxide

There is a worldwide need to reduce carbon dioxide, one of the major greenhouse gases. At Chemport Europe, we actively support initiatives to convert CO₂ into useful chemical compounds. So we not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we also use CO₂ to replace fossil fuels as feedstock.

Electrolysis

Hydrogen

Hydrogen – the most abundant element in our universe – can be used as a fuel, but is also used by the chemical industry.

Natural source

Sodium Chloride

In Delfzijl, sodium chloride is mostly used to produce chlorine, which is used to create different carbon-chloride compounds, which are intermediates in organic chemistry. The chlorine is transported to businesses in the Netherlands and exported. The conversion of sodium chloride into chlorine is energy intensive, but the production company (Nobian) is using green electricity for its plant.

Purest in its kind

Magnesium Chloride

Next to a seam with sodium chloride in Veendam, there is a seam with possibly the purest magnesium chloride on the planet. This is dissolved and pumped above ground by NedMag, which transports the brine by pipeline to Delfzijl.

Feedstock Towards renewable feedstock