Uhde to build Thai plant
Germany’s Uhde has been commissioned to build a turnkey plant complex for the combined production of biodiesel (methyl ester) and fatty alcohols at Map Ta Phut, Thailand.
The contract is for a 200,000 tonne-per-year methyl ester plant and a fatty alcohol plant with an annual capacity of 100,000 tonnes. The scope of the contract includes the engineering, the supply of all materials and equipment, plus construction and supervisory services. The contract is worth about €95m.
The methyl ester plant will be based on a process licensed by AT Agrar-Technik of Schlaitdorf near Stuttgart in Germany, while the fatty alcohol production process will be supplied by Düsseldorf-based Cognis Deutschland.
According to Uhde, a key feature of AT Agrar-Technik's esterification process is its flexibility with respect to the feedstocks, which can be used, allowing a variety of oil-bearing plants, animal oils and fats and old vegetable oils to be processed.
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