With the addition of Linde’s new ASU, the Wanhua Chemical Group has completed a major expansion project at its integrated chemical site and production center at the Yantai Chemical Industrial Park in China. The ASU will provide industrial gases to the company in order to manufacture isocyanate.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of July 2022’ from all over the world. Right from Lonza developing a large-scale fill & finish facility for commercial drug products to Shell building Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

With an aim to expand the green hydrogen economy within Europe and across the globe, Cummins has plans to develop a new gigawatt PEM electrolyzer manufacturing plant in Guadalajara, Spain. The project is expected to produce 500 MW of electrolyzers annually and can be scalable to produce more than 1 GW every year.

With an expected annual production capacity of 80,000 metric tons, the new Neopentyl Glycol plant will assist BASF to become one of the leading NPG manufacturers in the world. The project will also help to meet the growing demand for powder coatings in China.

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.

With an aim to increase green hydrogen production in the USA, Linde has plans to build its largest electrolyzer in New York, USA. The project is expected to double the company’s green hydrogen production capacity in the country.

HIF Global will develop the e-fuels plant in Matagorda County in Texas, USA and the project is expected to produce 200 million gallons of carbon-neutral gasoline annually. Construction of the plant will begin by 2023 and first production is scheduled for 2026.

Under an agreement signed between both the parties, Total Energies and Saria will work together to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on the Grandpuits zero-crude platform in France. Saria will supply used cooking oils and animal fats as feedstock to produce SAF.

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.

Global Amines’ new fatty amines production plant is now on stream. Located in Singapore, the plant will supply fatty amines to the company’s customers across the globe in the background of its high demand.