PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of September 2022’ from all over the world. Right from the world’s first demo plant for electrically heated steam cracker furnaces taking off to Dow and Mura developing Europe’s largest advanced recycling plant in Germany, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Under a MOU signed between both the parties, BASF will provide its advanced OASE blue CO2 capture process technology while GS E&C will offer a one-stop solution from specialized engineering services, carbon capture, project financing to storage and utilization for developing modular solutions for carbon capture facilities.

The world’s largest chemical company will soon be in China! The merger of chemical giants Sinochem and ChemChina has recently been approved, thus, paving the way for Sinochem Holdings, a mighty single organisation with estimated sales of more than 144 billion dollars! In this background, we bring to you the top 10 chemical companies in China making headlines.

Haldor Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy and Vestas are working together to develop the world’s first dynamic green ammonia demo plant in Denmark. The plant’s dynamic approach will directly connect power from wind turbines and solar panels to the ammonia plant to enhance cost-effectiveness of the project.

On a recent visit to evaluate several level transmitters on chemical storage applications at a new combined cycle power plant, Magnetrol-Ametek had the opportunity to work with the EPC firm, plant personnel and the chemical supplier. This provided an interesting look at the level instrumentation package for the chemical storage side of things from an engineering perspective, as well as from a daily operations point of view.

Siemens Digital Industries Software has joined hands with sustamize and developed the new Teamcenter Carbon Footprint Calculator software which helps companies to measure, simulate, reduce and track their product carbon footprint early on in the development phase.

Yokogawa Electric has been selected by Shell as the Main Automation Contractor for the Holland Hydrogen I plant being developed in the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands. Yokogawa will optimize operations at the plant which is expected to produce up to 60,000 kilograms of green hydrogen per day.

Stäubli Robotics will be launching its new series of robots – Stericlean+ at an upcoming pharma event in 2022. The robots are designed exclusively for use in isolators and deliver high flexibility and precision.

Maire Tecnimont has awarded KBR with a technology contract for its 1.1 million ton per annum blue ammonia plant in the USA. The project will transition from blue to green ammonia production in the future.

Technip Energies has won a large contract, which is between 250 million euros and 500 million euros of revenue, for Ineos’ Project One ethane cracker in Belgium. The 1,450 kta cracker will be using Technip Energies’ technologies to reduce its CO2 footprint by less than 50 %.

Total Energies and Holcim have collaborated together to study various energies and technologies for developing an efficient CCUS system which will help to decarbonize Holcim’s entire cement plant in Belgium. The partnership will also aim at establishing renewable projects to power an electrolyzer in order to generate green hydrogen for e-fuels as well as to power Holcim’s new oxyfuel kiln.

Haldor Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy and Vestas are working together to develop the world’s first dynamic green ammonia demo plant in Denmark. The plant’s dynamic approach will directly connect power from wind turbines and solar panels to the ammonia plant to enhance cost-effectiveness of the project.

Specialisation, small product quantities and fast production cycles in granulation require pharmaceutical manufacturers to think of adaptive plant technology. The whitepaper reveals what is key to keep your production of solids flexible.

In the China Biopharmaceutical Industry Report, the analysts provide insights into recent market developments and current conditions and highlight the industry's opportunities and challenges.

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The efficiency of a fermentation process in pharma or food production often remains unchallenged for years, unless there are acute issues. The white paper gives insights on how to use Artificial Intelligence to improve this process.

On a recent visit to evaluate several level transmitters on chemical storage applications at a new combined cycle power plant, Magnetrol-Ametek had the opportunity to work with the EPC firm, plant personnel and the chemical supplier. This provided an interesting look at the level instrumentation package for the chemical storage side of things from an engineering perspective, as well as from a daily operations point of view.

F.H. Papenmeier has introduced a small luminaire – Lumistar ESL 53Led Ex which proves beneficial for process monitoring in hazardous areas. It can be used in extremely high environment temperatures.

Challenges for manufacturers of explosion protection solutions – LNG, hydrogen, and digitalization of process plants with Ethernet-APL are focal points for manufacturers of explosion protection solutions. We talked to Dr Andreas Kaufmann, Head of Marketing and Innovation at R. Stahl, about how the Ex specialist is dealing with these future challenges.

MSA Safety’s fixed gas and flame detection monitoring solution – Field Server FGFD Protoair Gateway enables process and plant engineers to supervise their systems around the clock.

Under a definitive agreement, Nouryon has plans to acquire Adob Fertilizers which specializes in water-soluble fertilizers and micronutrients. The move is expected to strengthen the company’s crop nutrition business.

A large-scale biologics drug substance manufacturing facility is being built in Scandinavia and Fluor Corporation has been chosen to carry out procurement and construction management services for the project. The facility is expected to be operational by 2025.

Wuxi STA has recently developed its first high potency oral drug product manufacturing facility in China. With this project, the company aims to expand its integrated drug product R&D and manufacturing services to customers across the globe.

Until the pandemic, most people had never heard of mRNA vaccines. Today, they are widely expected to hold the key to curing life-threatening diseases such as cancer — unfortunately at a potentially prohibitive price.

By making use of efficient equipment – the Bauer PMSM technology along with Allweiler pumps – Stendal’s wastewater treatment facility in Germany is aiming to become entirely energy self-sufficient by 2025.

As a specialist for pumping complex media, Netzsch Pumps & Systems offers customised solutions. New at Netzsch is the Periproc peristaltic pump. According to the company, it is insensitive to dry running and pumps aggressive and abrasive media with 70 percent solids content without any problems.

Industrial pumps are important elements of the process industry. Mostly used for transferring liquids, air and gases, these pumps are also one of the major energy consumers in a plant which leads to significant overall costs. Industry players are therefore on the constant lookout for pumps that are both energy as well as cost efficient. We bring to you an insight into some of the latest energy efficient pumps available in the market today.

Hydrowatt is presenting its radial pump portfolio at the trade fair. One of the product highlights at the show is the hermetically sealed radial piston pumps which have an integrated and extensible elastomeric sleeve.