Olivier Zehnacker

Gas separation with PuraMem® VOC Jan-Philipp Birke

June 2020

- General Presentation -

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 About Evonik

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No product is so perfect

CAR TIRES TOWELS VOC RECOVERY NUTRITION TABLETS

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No product is so perfect
that you can’t improve it

m o r e f ue l s a vi n g f l uf f i e r b e tte r p e rf orm a n c e h e a l th i e r m ore e f f e c ti ve

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Countless products gain their special attributes through our creative power.

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That’s specialty chemicals.
And that’s where we’re among the best in class.

€13.1 billion €2.15 billion €1.15

sales* adjusted EBITDA* dividend per share

16.4% 80% of sales from

€842 million
capital expenditures
adjusted EBITDA margin*
leading market positions

>32,000 101 €1.94

adjusted earnings
employees nationalities per share*

* Fiscal 2019, ongoing activities

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Innovation Growth Fields
Tangible size already today – strong growth ahead

Company Presentation – Q2 2020

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New divisional structure
Growth divisions with common themes and attractive growth drivers

▪ Active Oxygen
▪ Coating Additives
▪ Catalyst
▪ Comfort & Insulation ▪ Animal Nutrition ▪ Baby Care
▪ Silica
▪ Interface & Performance ▪ Care Solutions ▪ Functional Solutions
▪ Silanes
▪ Crosslinkers ▪ Health Care ▪ Performance Intermediates
▪ Coating & Adhesive Resins
▪ Oil Additives
▪ High Performance Polymers

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High Performance Polymers Business Line
Key products and applications

Key products

Long-chain polyamide granules and powders PEEK Rubber

VESTAMID®, TROGAMID®, VESTOSINT®, VESTAMELT® VESTAKEEP® VESTENAMER®

Fibers Membranes Structural foams Tapes

P84® SEPURAN® ROHACELL® VESTAPE®

Markets and applications

Automotive Aerospace Industrial, Sports Optics Medical Consumer Additive Rubber, Hot gas Gas separation
Oil & Gas goods manufacturing rubber filtration
recycling

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 PURAMEM® VOC
separation
technology

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VOC Membranes are mainly characterized by sorption mechanisms

Feed (pFeed) Permeate (pPermeate) Transport mechanism

pFeed pPerm pFeed > pPerm
1 Sorption feed side
2 Diffusion through membrane
3 Desorption permeate side

1 2 3

Flow

C4H10
l
N2
Membrane thickness

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PuraMem® VOC allows separation of
e.g. Air from heavy hydrocarbons
Membrane Type B
PuraMem® Membrane Type
e.g. SEPURAN® GREEN

Quick passage
through membrane

Higher hydrocarbons
Separation

Slow passage through

membrane
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PuraMem® VOC allows heavy hydrocarbons
to pass rapidely through the membrane

Methane
Ethane
Alkanes Propane
iso-Butane
n-Butane

Alkenes Ethene

Aromatics Toluene

Nitrogen
Permanent
Oxygen
Gases
Carbon Dioxide

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Gas permeation – process for separation of gas mixtures

Retentate
pFEED = 1 - 80 bar

Feed

gaseous Permeate
ppermeate = 0,5-5 bar
Membrane gaseous
or
liquid

▪ Selectivity is governed by interaction between components with the membrane material (Sorption, Diffusion)
▪ Driving force: Difference in partial pressure of the components between feed and permeate side

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PuraMem VOC Module design

Spiral wound element

→ high packing density

→ Standard geometry matching gas
permeation standards

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 Video

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PURAMEM® Product families based on spiral wound flat sheet

▪ Non-aqueous Liquid/Liquid Separation ▪ Vapor and Volatile Organic

▪ Organic Solvent Nanofiltraion Compound Recovery
▪ Superior stability in non-aqueous solvents ▪ Based on a proven and reliable
technology platform and production
infrastructure

OSN PURAMEM® VOC

▪ Generate extra product value in a wide

variety of applications in various process
industries ▪ Freely available on the market
▪ Reduction of cost, of energy consumption, ▪ Strong Price/Performance Ratio
and increased yield through gentle, ambient
temperature separations

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SEPURAN® Product families based on hollow fibres

▪ Market leading selectivity ▪ Market leader in Biogas upgrading

▪ Long term stability units
▪ Industry standard productivity

NG Green

SEPURAN®
▪ On site nitrogen generation ▪ He recovery from Source gas or
▪ Purities from 95-99.5% Diluted streams
▪ Superior air-factor (~2.2) ▪ H2 recovery
N2 Noble
▪ High productive modules ▪ H2/CO ratio adjustment
▪ CO concentration

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EVONIK membrane product portfolio currently targeting
all key gas separation membranes and is contineously expending

Technological development

2011 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

SEPURAN® SEPURAN® SEPURAN® PURAMEM® SEPURAN® SEPURAN® PURAMEM®

Green (Biogas) Noble (Helium) N2 OSN NG Noble (H2) VOC

More than 350 First of it’s kind Relaunch for Market launch Market launch
More than 150 Public launch in
references He source gas liquid/liquid & first large & first large
references 2020
upgrading unit separation scale NG plant scale reference

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Evonik membrane products are being produced at two sites within Europe

Evonik Fibres
and Membranes

Evonik MET, Evonik Fibres,

London (UK) London Schörfling Schoerfling (AT)

OSN
Gas Separation Hot Gas Filtration
VOC

Duramem® Module
SEPURAN® Module P84® Filter bag
Puramem® Module

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SEPURAN & PURAMEM operate worldwide with regional technical support

London
Marl Moskau
Toronto
Schörfling
Seoul
Parsippany Tokyo/Osaka
St. Louis
Dubai Shanghai

Mumbai
Kuala Lumpur

Singapore

São Paulo

Sales Office

Sales and Technical Office

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Evonik impacts on full value chain
leads to superior membrane products

Value chain of Evonik membrane business

PURAMEM® OEM /
Monomer Polymer Flat Sheet End User
Module Upgrading Unit

Technology Support &

Evonik Business Application Development

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The applications for PuraMem VOC can be separated into three clusters

Oil & Gas Storage Process Industry

▪ Dew point adjustment ▪ VOC recovery from ▪ Recovery of valuable
▪ LPG separation head gas (N2 or air) VOCs from offgas
▪ Pretreatment to gas ▪ Tank farms or gasoline ▪ E.g. recovery of
sweetening stations monomers from
▪ Meeting ambitious production
emission targets with ▪ Short payback periods
recovery as opposed to
destruction of VOCs
▪ Especially favorable at
low flow and high VOC
concentrations

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 Oil & Gas

- Pretreatment to gas
sweetening
- Dew point adjustment
- LPG separation

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Case Study for Oil & Gas:
Raw Natural Gas Dew Point Reduction with PURAMEM® VOC

Comments
Natural Gas with lower dew Point
▪ PuraMem ® VOC can be used for
Raw reducing pressure dew point of raw
Natural Gas natural gas before sweetening by
separating heavy hydrocarbons from
PuraMem® VOC methane

Compressor

▪ PuraMem ® VOC can also be used for

conditioning of fuel gas for a gas
Heavy Hydrocarbons for energy use
engine or turbine

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Case Study for Oil & Gas:
Separation of LPG from Natural Gas with PuraMem® VOC

Comments
NG in pipeline spec

▪ Focus can be on pipeline fuel or on

Raw LPGs
Natural Gas ▪ PuraMem® VOC significantly reduces
energy consumption of the LPG
extraction unit

Compressor Condenser PuraMem® VOC

▪ PuraMem ® VOC can also be used for
conditioning of fuel gas for a gas
LPG engine or turbine

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 Storage

- VOC recovery from

head gas
- Tank farms
- Gasoline stations

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Case Study for Storage:
Tank Vapor Recovery e.g. petrol station or tank farm by PuraMem® VOC

Comments

The membrane unit separates

exhaust gas of the underground
storage tank into

• a clean gas stream released into

the environment

• gasoline vapor enriched stream.

The gasoline vapor stream is
saturated and thus, liquifies

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 Process Industry

- Recovery of valuable
Organic Compounds
from offgas

- Recovery of
monomers from
production

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Case Study for Process Industry: Recovery of Educts from gaseous reactions
PuraMem® VOC recovering 85 % of product losses

Condensation is Still a significant

limited by the vapour 10% A 100 Nm³/h amount of valuable
liquid equilibrium!
70% N2 product in offgas!
Offgas – e.g. Nitrogen 30% A
with valuable product A

Compressor Condenser valuable product

90% A is recovered
by condensation

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Case Study for Process Industry: Recovery of Educts from gaseous reactions
PuraMem® VOC recovering 85 % of product losses

60 Nm³/h
Condensation is PuraMem® VOC 95% N2
limited by the vapour 100 Nm³/h 5% A
liquid equilibrium!
70% N2
~85% of
10% A
30% A
remaining
Offgas – e.g. Nitrogen
with valuable product A
product
recovered!
1000 Nm³/h 40 Nm³/h
Compressor Condenser valuable product
33% N2
70% N2
67% A
30% A
90%+8% A is recovered
by condensation

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Different behaviours between SEPURAN® and PURAMEM®
allow to select the best separation material

PuraMem® Membrane Type SEPURAN® Membrane Type

Quick passage
through membrane

Higher hydrocarbons
Separation

Natural Gas
Sweetening

Slow passage through

membrane
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Valorization of Gasification Process
Combining SEPURAN® Noble, PURAMEM® VOC and PSA

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 Evonik have strong know-how in the field of manufacturing and of
processing with membranes and spiral wound elements

Evonik recently launched a new generation of VOC recovery

membranes and is looking for in-field testing opportunities

Diversification of portfolio is based on a proven and reliable

technology platform and production infrastructure

Evonik membranes are freely available on the market

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