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BAYTOWN, Texas (April 17, 2006) -- At a ceremony held at ExxonMobil, the U. S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE)
recognized ExxonMobil Baytown Complex with the 2006 Energy Star Combined Heat
and Power (CHP) Award for the site's cogeneration facilities.
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is an efficient, clean, and reliable approach to
generating power and thermal energy from a single fuel source. ExxonMobil's
cogeneration facilities increase the energy efficiency at the complex's
refinery, two chemical plants and research center and helps decrease the
region's emissions of greenhouse gases.
The facilities, located at the Baytown Olefins Plant, include a 160 megawatt
gas-turbine generator, coupled with a heat-recovery unit that can produce
560,000 pounds-per-hour of steam for use in manufacturing processes. Using
the most efficient technology available today, the new cogeneration unit
produces both steam and electricity from clean-burning natural gas at an
efficiency rate of about twice traditional power generation. The generator is
large enough to supply the average energy needs of at least 100,000 homes in
the United States.
Based on EPA calculations, the Baytown CHP system has an operating efficiency
of 73 percent and requires about 33 percent less fuel than equivalent separate
heat and power. These savings result in a carbon dioxide reduction of
approximately 619,000 tons per year.
"In an increasingly competitive global industry, projects such as cogeneration
are essential to our strategy of operating reliably and efficiently," said
Chris Erickson, Refinery Plant Manager. "In the past five years, our site's
energy efficiency projects including cogen have reduced emissions equal to
taking nearly 150,000 cars off the road."
Currently, ExxonMobil has more than 85 cogeneration units located around the
world that produce nearly 3,700 megawatts of electricity at 30 refineries,
chemical plants and natural gas processing plants worldwide. Energy savings
from these units are equivalent to the residential electricity needs of Maine,
Vermont and New Hampshire combined.
ExxonMobil Chemical is a global leader in technology, product quality and
customer service with petrochemical manufacturing and/or marketing operations
in more than 150 countries around the world. To find out more about ExxonMobil
Chemical, visit www.exxonmobilchemical.com.
Notes to editors:
The term "ExxonMobil Chemical" refers collectively to some or all of the
companies affiliated with Exxon Mobil Corporation which have chemical
manufacturing and/or marketing operations around the world.
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Using the most efficient technology available today, the new cogeneration unit
produces both steam and electricity from clean-burning natural gas at an
efficiency rate of about twice traditional power generation.
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