With this mega project in Illinois, USA, Air Liquide has plans to bring its worldwide biomethane production capacity to 1.8 TWh. The new unit will produce biomethane from biogas from a solid waste treatment plant and will have a production capacity of 380 GWh per year.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2022’ from all over the world. Right from China’s first megaton CCUS project to developing Europe’s first lithium refinery, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The ‘3D’ carbon capture pilot plant is the brainchild of a consortium including Totalenergies, Arcelor Mittal, Axens and IFP Energies Nouvelles. The plant has started up at Arcelor Mittal’s Dunkirk site in France and will capture 0.5 tons of CO2 an hour. The project is an important step in decarbonizing the steelmaking industry.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of March 2022’ from all over the world. Right from Exxon Mobil constructing one of the world’s largest CCS projects in USA to an Aramco JV establishing a mega refinery and petrochemical complex in China, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Krones has developed its first solution for ozonizing water – the Krones Ozonomic ozonizer. Developed in-house, the solution is the latest addition to the firm’s portfolio of water-packaging equipment.

In a field test, a chemical plant in Japan ran autonomously for 35 days with the assistance of an artificial intelligence (AI) solution developed by Yokogawa and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology. The next-generation control technology is capable of taking into account numerous factors such as quality, yield, energy saving, and sudden disturbances.

Schubert & Salzer Control Systems will be showcasing its latest range of aseptic and sliding gate valves for the food industry at the soon to be held Anuga Foodtec trade fair in Germany.

The Fluid Components International’s (FCI) FLT93 Series Flow Switch is SIL-2 rated and assists in protecting pricey pumps from dry running conditions which shorten their lives.

Air Products and the Hamburg Port Authority have entered into a MOU to explore the potential of developing a hydrogen value chain across the port of Hamburg in Germany. The collaboration aims to increase the production, supply chain and consumption of hydrogen in the region.

What do operators of the technology-focused process industry expect from a pump manufacturer? Well, they certainly expect in-depth application knowledge relating to all aspects of central production processes. Industry-specific know-how is and always has been an important driving force behind innovation at Grundfos. Today, other topics like resource efficiency and sustainability are gaining hugely in importance.