Hot prospect: Chemicals giants in world-first bid to tap green power for 850-degree 'cracker furnaces'

BASF, SABIC and Linde plan demonstrator to electrify widely-used industry process that currently relies on fossils

Temperatures of about 850 degrees Celsius are reached in steam cracker furnaces. — Temperatures of about 850 degrees Celsius are reached in steam cracker furnaces.Foto: BASF

Andrew Lee

Published 24 March 2021, 10:22Updated 24 March 2021, 10:22