BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 9. US Air Products announced an investment of more than $15 million in the company's first carbon dioxide (CO2) production facility in Uzbekistan in April 2024, Vice President of Air Products at Central Europe and Central Asia Vaclav Harant told Trend.
“The production of high-purity CO2 will be realized at the ammonia production line based on Uzbekistan’s Navoiazot chemical complex. The new facility, the first of its kind in Uzbekistan, will use raw CO2 captured from the ammonia production line to produce high-purity CO2,” he said.
Vaclav Harant noted that the plant's production capacity will be 120 tons per day, which will be the largest and most sustainable CO2 production in the country to date, helping to solve problems associated with supply disruptions during the high season.
“After commissioning at the end of 2024, the plant will be able to meet the market demand for continuous and reliable supplies of high-purity CO2 in such segments as beverage production, modified atmosphere food packaging, preparation of welding mixtures, blast freezing of food products, agro-industrial complex, greenhouses, water purification, dry ice production, cryomedicine, and transport,” the representative of the company emphasized.
According to him, demonstrating Air Products’ ongoing commitment to developing operations in Uzbekistan, the company brings more than 80 years of experience and leading industrial gas services and technologies to support this unique project. Working together with partners, the company looks forward to helping them operate economically and sustainably and is excited about further opportunities for cooperation in the country.
Earlier, Air Products signed an investment agreement with Uzbekistan and Uzbekneftegaz to acquire, own, and operate a natural gas-to-synthetic natural gas processing facility in the Kashkadarya region of Uzbekistan for $1 billion.
The natural gas-to-synthetic gas industrial complex is an integral part of Uzbekneftegaz's multi-billion dollar gas-to-liquids venture, one of the most advanced energy plants in the world.
