We are committed to sustainability principles and to supporting improvements on issues of sustainability in our core businesses of the process and energy industries. Our commitment to sustainability is driven from top-down. Development of our capability in delivering sustainable technologies, projects and process improvements is one of the fundamental elements of our strategic vision for our company. The realisation of this improved capability extends over short-, medium- and long-term business plans:
- Short-term - Services driven. Translate the fundamental process and system integration skills that underpin our conventional business to offer distinctive and differentiated services to industry to improve energy and environmental performance. Implementation via current project delivery business and developing consulting business.
- Medium-term - Technology driven. Aggressively promote the technologies already held in-house or under development to offer options with improved environmental, economic and social outcomes. Examples include our own gasification technology that is utilised in the largest commercially demonstrated IGCC power plant. IGCC is a leading contender to yield ’clean coal‘ power production.
- Long-term - Stepping out. Based on our internal, broad-based technology assessments, identify key future sustainability opportunities, road maps to get there and commit to the necessary capability and technologies to deliver those opportunities.
Sustainability underscores everything we do. It defines our desire to minimise the material and social impact of the assets that we design, build and support. It extends to safe and clean work practices, and is reflected in the services and advice we provide to our customers.
We were implementing this philosophy long before 'sustainability' and 'corporate social responsibility' became business buzz words. Responsible action has a long and productive tradition at ThyssenKrupp, Uhde and Uhde Asia Pacific.
There are two key ways in which we address sustainability:
- Our behaviour. We aim to reduce the impact of our operations on the environment and the community.
- Our projects. We design, build and manage sustainable assets for our clients.
Our services range from capital and operational solutions through to auditing and reporting. Our affiliations allow us to provide a comprehensive range of services including:
- Process plant optimisation
- Operating practices optimisation
- Process energy assessment/efficiency improvements
- Emissions estimates for existing & new facilities
- Heat integration studies
- Lifecycle assessment
- Sustainability metrics for phases of project & triple bottom line analysis
- Water utilisation studies
- Economic analysis
- Land use – pipelines, new facilities, logistics
- Land degradation/contamination/remediation
- Greenhouse gas reporting
- Noise/odour/visual amenity
- Sustainability reporting
- Benchmarking
Our currently available proprietary technologies that can be offered with sustainability benefits include:
- Advanced gasification technologies for coal, petroleum coke and oil, including PRENFLO™ and HTW
- Acid gas removal from natural gas and synthesis gas using Morphysorb® Technology
- EnviNOx® for removal of NOx and N2O from nitric acid plants
- Substantial improvements in energy efficiency of ammonia plants