SABIC, SD and Linde to Explore Options for Sustainable Ethylene Glycol Production

SABIC, Scientific Design (SD) and Linde Engineering are collaborating to explore opportunities to decarbonize the SD ethylene glycol process. 

This collaboration seeks to develop solutions to reduce carbon footprint and achieve low-carbon emissions technology by offering SABIC's CO₂ recovery and purification technology to SD-licensed manufacturing glycol plants worldwide. The goal is to establish sustainable ethylene oxide and ethylene glycol production and set industry benchmarks for carbon-neutral industries.
 
The collaboration will leverage SABIC's proprietary CO₂ technology, which is already employed at the carbon capture and utilization (CCU) plant at SABIC affiliate, United. This technology has the capacity to recover and purify up to 500,000 metric tons (MT) of CO₂ per year, which would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere during ethylene glycol production. The captured CO₂ can be converted into products such as urea, a vital agri-nutrient that enhances agricultural yields; methanol, a building block for various chemicals and liquefied CO₂, widely used in the food and beverage industry.