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New TECH Report - Hydrogen Peroxide (2024 Program)
Hydrogen peroxide is one in a series of reports published as part of NexantECA’s 2024 Technoeconomics – Energy & Chemicals (TECH) program.
Overview
Hydrogen peroxide is one of the most powerful oxidizing agents known and is a primary component for bleaching and disinfectants applications as well as being a key feedstock to produce other chemicals such as propylene oxide. It is considered a green/environmentally friendly chemical due to the decomposition by-products being water and oxygen.
Within the TECH report, NexantECA provides the insights behind recent capacity additions and details a high-level analysis to the business and strategic considerations from the perspective of a company entering or expanding into the hydrogen peroxide market.
- What are the major production technologies for hydrogen peroxide and how do they differ?
- Who are the main technology owners and licensors?
- What are the recent technological innovations for hydrogen peroxide production?
- What are the primary end use markets for hydrogen peroxide?
- Where is the future market growth?
- Where are the main producers?
- What is the business and regulatory environment like for hydrogen peroxide today?
- How does carbon intensity change for the different production routes for hydrogen peroxide?
Commercial Technologies
The majority of global capacity is based on the anthraquinone auto-oxidation process which uses hydrogen and air as raw materials and a palladium-based catalyst. The report presents the three major production technologies.
R&D efforts, such as those directed toward developing a direct synthesis route (i.e., without the use of an anthraquinone working compound), are also discussed in the report.
Process Economics
The cost of production for three prominent production routes has been estimated for plants located in the United States, Western Europe, the Middle East, and China for the first quarter of 2024. These regions/countries account for the large majority of global hydrogen peroxide capacity. The analysis breaks down the key factors in determining the unit cost of production.
Commercial Overview
The applications for hydrogen peroxide fall into the following broad categories.
- Bleaching (paper, pulp and textile) as it is a strong, non-polluting oxidizing agent.
- Chemical Synthesis (principally HPPO)
- Environmental (particularly wastewater treatment and chemical purification)
- Electronics
- Food
- Mining
- Others such as consumer care, aquaculture, agriculture, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and aerospace applications.
The analysis discusses each end use and explores the future growth aspects.
Contact a member to our Insights & Analytics team to find out more about this report
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