Waste water is more than just mud. In some industrial processes it is full of valuable raw materials, such as traces of the rare metal gallium. In order to recover them, researchers from Freiberg have now tested a new biotechnical process — and filtered metal ions out of the wastewater using a peptide gel.

Tirelli Robosorter is the result of the cross-industry expertise of Arol Group R&D team.

Elgi Compressors Europe has recently launched the ‘LD Series’ range of lubricated direct drive reciprocating air compressors in Europe. With the new piston air compressor technology, the series claims to offer high performance, low noise, and easy maintenance.

China has announced massive investments in one of the country's largest petrochemical industry sites. In Zhanjiang, at the southern tip of the People's Republic in Guangdong Province, another 45.2 billion dollars is being pumped into a Verbund site which will focus on petrochemicals and steel production over the next five years. The German chemical giant BASF is right in the middle of all this.

Under a ten-year contract signed between both the parties, Air Liquide will purchase 52 gigawatt-hours per year of solar photovoltaic renewable energy from Shell Energy Europe to power its industrial and medical gas production operations in North East Italy.

Under a joint study agreement, Pertamina and Air Liquide Indonesia have teamed up to develop Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) technology at the Balikpapan Refinery Processing Unit in Indonesia. The two firms will jointly conduct a study on CO2 Syngas and Flue Gas capture technology application from hydrogen production at the site.

Carbon transformation company Twelve is announcing 130 million dollars in a Series B and additional funding to scale the engineering, manufacturing, and deployment of its industrial-scale carbon transformation technology for the creation of a wide range of products with a lower carbon footprint.

Plug Power has plans to build a 100 MW green hydrogen plant at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium. On completion, the unit is expected to produce up to 12,500 tons per year of liquid and gaseous green hydrogen for the European market.

Everyone focuses first and foremost on purchase price when estimating pump life-cycle costs, but there are other optimisable costs that will help moderate pump-related expenses.

Air Products will develop a new industrial gas complex on BOO basis and supply hydrogen, nitrogen and steam to Indian Oil Corporation’s Barauni Refinery in Bihar, India. The project will help the Indian firm to expand its current production capacity of Euro-VI or BS-VI compliant gasoline and diesel at the site.