With the Dreyclean LT high-performance cleaning granulates, Dreychem has developed a mechanically acting cleaning granulate that is able, even without any abrasive ingredients in the recipe, to eliminate particularly stubborn incrustations and other deposits very effectively.

Morocco has recently announced its plans to develop the Hevo Ammonia Morocco project, the largest green hydrogen and green ammonia project in the country. On completion, the project is expected to produce 183,000 tons of green ammonia and reduce 280,000 tons of CO2 annually.

Preem and Vattenfall will be continuing their collaboration on fossil-free hydrogen gas for producing biofuels on a large-scale in the background of a study conducted in spring. The study reveals that Preem’s Lysekil plant in Sweden is ideal for building a 50 MW electrolysis plant for hydrogen biofuel production.

Haldor Topsoe’s Syncor autothermal reforming technology has been chosen by Air Products for its world-scale net-zero hydrogen energy complex in Canada. The technology will be installed at Air Product’s new facility which will help to capture over 95 % of CO2 emissions.

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has introduced a scalable system for chemical disinfection. The system is equipped with a compressed air-operated dual-substance nozzle which provides reliable disinfection with hydrogen peroxide and also helps to save costs.

Namur’s (User Association of Automation Technology in Process Industries) working Group 2.6 'Digital Process Communications' has recently published a Position paper which focuses on APL network topologies for the process sector.

It is quite time-consuming to constantly check the iron content in drinking water manually. The Bürkert Online Analysis System with the MS06 iron analyzer for photometric iron measurement does this fully automatically, includes several measuring points and allows long maintenance intervals.

Ethernet-APL is the new two-wire, intrinsically-safe physical layer suitable for use in demanding process automation applications. Its benefits include dramatically improved communication speed, hazardous area reach, power to field instrumentation, and long cable runs.

Haldor Topsoe’s Syncor autothermal reforming technology has been chosen by Air Products for its world-scale net-zero hydrogen energy complex in Canada. The technology will be installed at Air Product’s new facility which will help to capture over 95 % of CO2 emissions.

KBR has secured the technology contract from the Haifa Group for two of its process plants at Mishor Rotem in Israel. KBR will provide license, basic engineering design and proprietary equipment for both the plants.

McDermott has won an engineering and procurement contract from Heat Transfer Technologies DMCC for a spent caustic treatment solution for Baltic Chemical Plant’s Gas Chemical Complex (GCC) project, claimed to be the world’s largest polyethylene integration project.

The French energy group Total Energies and the engineering company Technip signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement to jointly develop low-carbon solutions for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production and offshore facilities to accelerate the energy transition.

According to market research, the market volume for "green" chemistry is due to almost double by 2025. Our white paper sets out how contract manufacturers are reacting to the trend for sustainability.

This paper will show by means of the example of a pusher centrifuge how to achieve optimum product quality, maximum energy efficiency and operation with a minimum of downtime and it describes the most important innovations of the past decade.

This paper looks at how the earlier PTA production method involving a multi-stage process with pressure and atmospheric centrifuges and a re-slurry tank can be replaced with one stand-alone device – the rotary pressure filter (RPF).

Do you want to operate radiometric measurements with minimal uncertainties to allow optimum performance of your process? Minimize error sources, so that difficult level, density & bulk flow measurement tasks achieve highest accuracy & reproducibility

Swep has launched new products which enhance the company’s ‘All-Stainless’ range of brazed plate heat exchangers. The latest addition to the existing portfolio is the B85S medium-size high-capacity model and the B221 as well as the B222 models will be coming soon.

Asahi Kasei Medical has plans to double the production capacity of its hydrophilic PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) hollow-fiber membranes at its spinning facility in Oita, Japan. The membranes are in high demand in the background of the Covid-19 pandemic as they are used in the production of Planova Bioex filters which are essential to mass-produce anti-coronavirus agents.

With the Dreyclean LT high-performance cleaning granulates, Dreychem has developed a mechanically acting cleaning granulate that is able, even without any abrasive ingredients in the recipe, to eliminate particularly stubborn incrustations and other deposits very effectively.

The year 2020 has confronted Feige Filling, one of the market leaders for filling equipment, with very special challenges: Within a very tight time frame and under pandemic conditions, seven fully- automatic fillers had to be planned and manufactured for a Chinese customer.

Amidst the global pandemic, there was an urgent need to manufacture Covid vaccines across the globe. In this scenario, the pharma company Catalent converted one of its aseptic processing lines, which specialized in powder processing, to liquid processing. The move helped the firm to produce its first commercial batch of Covid vaccines in April 2021.

Gea’s new pharmaceutical separator lines ‘aseptic’ and ‘pure’ are ushering in a new era for biopharmaceutical separation processes. The separator lines are used in all pharmaceutical and biotechnological downstream processes.

With an aim to meet the global pharma and biotech demand, Nouryon has plans to expand its Kromasil manufacturing facility in Bohus, Sweden. The move is expected to support the company’s global leadership position in high-performance silica.

Steriline has designed and supplied a robotic pilot line to Shilpa Medicare for processing vials, pre-filled syringes (PFS) and cartridges for injectable oncology drugs. The innovative pilot line operates with limited human intervention.

Leanbio works with a number of pharmaceutical and biotech organizations to scale up their biologics manufacturing processes. The pilot plant is therefore used for a wide range of different products, requiring versatile equipment which also prevents cross contamination. Peristaltic pumps from WMFTG offered a versatile solution to reduce cleaning requirements while still preventing product contamination and facilitating equipment reconfiguration between batches.

The Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) has plans to replace all industrial pump bearings at its facilities across Dubai with grease-free Thordon water lubricated bearing solutions. With the installation of these solutions, DEWA aims to reduce downtime as well as the costs associated with grease and spare parts procurement.

The new screw vacuum pumps Dryvac DV 500 and DV 800 will be presented by Leybold in the spring of 2021. These vacuum pumps compress completely dry, i.e. without operating lubricant in the compression chamber and are therefore ideally suited as backing pumps in food packaging or in pumping sets in heat treatment or coating systems, as they have significant advantages over oil-lubricated piston or rotary vane vacuum pumps.

VDMA’s Food Processing and Packaging Machinery trade association will be participating at Achema Pulse’s Process Technology Forum. The show is expected to present numerous topics such as hydrogen, chemical recycling, digitalization as well as automation. VDMA will also hold sessions on OPC UA and Circular Economy at the Forum.