Nickel Refinery Supplying By-Product Carbon Dioxide to Utility Gas Provider

Summary

BOC Gases (an industrial gas producer and supplier) purifies and compresses process carbon dioxide received from the Kwinana Nickel Refinery (Nickel West). This synergy reduces the emissions of carbon dioxide to atmosphere, while also avoiding energy use that would otherwise be required to produce CO₂ from air.

Industry

Industry Sector	Specific Industry
mining and minerals sector	nickel refinery
utility gas sector	producer and supplier of industrial gases

Region

Kwinana Industrial Area, Kwinana, Western Australia

Applied Technologies

• gas purification

Triple Bottom Line Aspects (direct at operational level)

Economic	generated company income operational costs to purify CO2 from chemical plant
Environmental	proportion of CO 2 emissions from nickel refinery are no longer emitted to the atmosphere avoidance of energy use that would otherwise be required to produce CO2 from air
Social	increased employee satisfaction due to improved environmental performance of nickel refinery

Additional Comments

None.

References

• van Beers, D, Bossilkov, A and van Berkel, R (2005) “Capturing Regional Synergies in the Kwinana Industrial Area – 2005 Status Report”, CSRP Report (for Project 3B1), August 2005

Last Update

23 November 2005