PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of May 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Topsoe developing the world’s first industrial scale SOEC electrolyzer facility to Mc Dermott securing a PMC contract for India's first mega-scale MAH plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Air Products has entered into an investment agreement with the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Uzbekneftegaz JSC to acquire, own and operate a natural gas-to-syngas processing facility in Uzbekistan. The plant is claimed to be one of the most advanced energy plants in the world and currently produces 1.5 million tonnes per year of high value-add synthetic fuels for domestic use and export.

The pharmaceutical industry is changing rapidly and so are the equipment used in the production space. Robots are being constantly updated with new and advanced features to deliver contamination-free and high-quality drugs quickly and efficiently to the end consumer.

The long-term agreement will form a part of Ørsted’s Mockingbird Solar Center project in Lamar County, Texas, USA which is expected to produce clean energy to power roughly 80,000 homes.

Softing Industrial has introduced a range of functionalities in version 3.40 in its edgeconnector products and edgeaggregator which makes integration into IT solutions much easier.

With 3 petaflops of computing power, the new supercomputer is the world’s largest supercomputer used in industrial chemical research and has been started up at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in Germany.

The pharmaceutical industry is changing rapidly and so are the equipment used in the production space. Robots are being constantly updated with new and advanced features to deliver contamination-free and high-quality drugs quickly and efficiently to the end consumer.

Titan Enterprises’ new UV resin printer facilitates highly iterative design and has the capacity to make small, precise changes to designs. This helps R&D design engineers to experiment with novel designs at a lower cost, both in time and money, and rapid prototyping.

The new demonstration unit will make use of Technip Energies' electric steam cracking furnacetechnology (efurnace by T.EN) which will help companies to use renewable electricity as a heat source for the olefins cracking process in the future. This move is expected to significantly reduce greenhouse gas footprint of the olefins production process.

İgsaş - İstanbul Gübre Sanayii has selected thyssenkrupp Uhde’s new uhde ammonia converter cartridge and Johnson Matthey’s high-performance catalyst Katalco 74-1 for its existing ammonia plant in Turkey. With this, the company aims to significantly reduce the pressure in the synthesis loop of its ammonia plant while maintaining the nameplate capacity of 1,200 mtpd.

The new production plant i.e. the Hydrogen Valley Rosignano project will be developed in Rosignano, Italy and intends to decarbonize Solvay’s activities in the region. The plant will have a capacity of 756 tons of green hydrogen per year and will be used for the production of peroxides on site.

thyssenkrupp At.Pro tec is well known for the development of the sequence impulse process (SIP). When used on cupola furnaces, it considerably increased their cost-effectiveness in the past. In over 10 years of development work with Schubert & Salzer as their partner, Dr. Rainer Klock and the team at At.Pro tec succeeded in getting the SIP technology to work on blast furnaces, too, with the help of sliding gate valves. This is a story of a researcher who is on his way to becoming a plant manufacturer.

Under a MOU signed between both the parties, Leonardo and Siemens Digital Industries will work together to provide advanced cybersecurity solutions for IT or OT technologies specifically for digital and integrated industrial infrastructures.

In the chemical industry, plants need to be kept up-to-date at all costs and different kinds of robots help plant operators to achieve this goal. Whether you need them for inspection in a hazardous/confined zone or for collecting data, these 3 types of industrial robots are all you need in an industrial setting.

In January 2023, Vega, manufacturer of level, switching and pressure instrumentation, delivered what it claims is the world's first level sensor with integrated cyber security. With this, it wants to send a strong signal against the increasing threat from cyber criminals, also throughout the industry.

With the help of the pressurised enclosure, explosion protection is simple and flexible. Above all, it can be used to implement difficult Ex challenges, which is why many users make use of this solution. Two industrial plants in the petrochemical industry in Kuwait and Egypt show how this works in practice.

Rotzinger Pharmapack has entered the US market and recently exhibited numerous solutions including pharmaceutical and cosmetic products packaging at the Interphex trade show in New York, USA.

3M’s hefty investment will include improvements to the facilities and equipment as well as the recruitment of 60 people to work full time in its manufacturing facilities in Europe.

Food packaging is one area where plastic is used in abundance as it keeps food fresh for a longer period of time, is cost effective and flexible in nature. With the plastic menace looming over us, it’s time to switch to more eco-friendly materials which deliver more sustainable food packaging options but what does this mean for packaging machine manufacturers in the food sector? Read on to find out…

Berry Global, Peel Plastic Products and Exxonmobil have joined hands to use ISCC Plus certified-circular plastics into pet food packaging. Exxonmobil’s Exxtend technology will be used for advanced recycling of the plastic waste.

Chemical pumps of the Mega CPK type series of KSB are now available in 55 sizes with more than 78 hydraulic systems. The available materials of grey cast iron, nodular cast iron and cast steel, stainless steel as well as duplex and special alloys, such as titanium and Hastelloy, result in a wide range of applications.

Alfa Laval releases new condition monitoring software with built-in analytics. Using artificial intelligence, it helps hygienic industries prevent unplanned downtime, extends lifetime of valuable assets and helps reach sustainability targets.

Pfeiffer Vacuum has introduced the new advanced Hipace 80 Neo – the world's first laser-balanced turbopump in its class. The solution offers improved durability and lower vibration as well as noise emissions.

Flowserve Corporation has recently introduced its new Sihi Boost Ultraplus dry-running vacuum pump which has the potential to reduce cycle times for batch processes by up to 50 percent or more.

Under an agreement between both the parties, Lummus will acquire Siemens Energy’s Zimpro wet air oxidation technology and Pact system, along with the associated intellectual property, lab equipment and associated assets. With this move, the firm aims to expand its portfolio for sustainable, integrated water solutions.

LG Water Solutions has been chosen as the exclusive RO membrane supplier for the Ashdod Desalination Project in Israel which is one of the largest desalination plants in the country.

Weeefiner has partnered with Sensmet to develop an Intelligent Recovery Unit that has the capacity to recover metals from mining-impacted waters. The metal recovery and water treatment solution will be provided by Weeefiner whereas the online measurement technology will be provided by Sensmet.

The Bahr El Baqar wastewater treatment project has three Guinness World Records to its name – the largest water treatment plant in the world, the largest sludge treatment plant and the largest single-operator ozone generating plant. Situated in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, the project is changing the dynamics of the country which is suffering from a water-crisis.