Abstract
With the increasing global awareness for the preservation of the environment, Governments became convinced that our industrial practices had an impact towards environmental deterioration through an anthropogenic climate change, which mandated Governments to demonstrate actions towards serious cutting back of carbon emissions.
It is accepted that the Petroleum and Power industries are among the highest sources of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions and whilst they have an impressive record of constantly searching for ways to meet the energy supply with cleaner and more efficient technologies; they continue to be challenged to meet the energy demand under increasing local and global regulations to reduce their Carbon footprint forcing them to consider alternative approaches for facilities design and operation.
Apart from proceeding challenge; these two industries have something else in common namely: their need for Hydrogen generation. Hydrogen demand is evidently increasing in Petroleum industries for various uses in Refineries, Petrochemicals and Fertilizer industries. Similarly; demand for Hydrogen as clean source of energy is growing in the Power industry. It is this common need for Hydrogen that directed our attention to identify an opportunity for cross industrial integration through Hydrogen production resulting in various substantial environmental & business benefits in an affordable and reliable way.
