PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of May 2022’ from all over the world. Right from developing a world scale ethylene plant in Europe to building one of the world’s largest PDH units in China, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as well as Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) is picking up steam and can be considered as revolutionary solutions that can help hard-to-abate industries to reduce their carbon emissions in the short-to-long term. Both CCS and CCU will play a vital role for these industries as they prepare to reach their goals of meeting net zero emissions by 2050.

Merck has recently inaugurated its new 290 million-euro biosafety testing facility in Rockville, Maryland, USA with an aim to meet the growing global demand for biosafety testing. The facility will house biosafety testing, analytical development, and cell banking manufacturing services.

PPG has plans to divest its architectural coatings business in the U.S. and Canada to American Industrial Partners for a whooping amount of 550 million dollars. The transaction is expected to close in late 2024 or early 2025.

Metso’s new facility will help customer-specific pilot-scale testing to be carried out in order to demonstrate the applicability and results of industrial-scale DRI smelting with Metso’s Outotec DRI Smelting Furnace technology.

Invista has decided to continue hexamethylene diamine production at its Orange site in Texas, USA after announcing to end its adiponitrile and hexamethylene diamine operations at the site last year.

Pilkington Italy has booked a new order for a second Gea Denox plant at its San Salvo site in Italy after installing one earlier at the site. The new Gea gas cleaning plant claims to reduce emissions for Nox down to 500 mg/Nm during energy-intensive glass production.

BASF has introduced Ultramid Low PCF and Ultramid Zero PCF within its polyamide value chain in Europe. Ultramid Zero PCF is the first polyamide 6 in the industry to achieve a CO2 footprint of net zero while Ultramid Low PCF is produced using electricity from renewable energy sources and low-emission steam.

The Rudong site in China is BASF Agricultural Solutions’ first CO2-emission-free production site. The site has modified its existing heating system from fossil-based steam to renewable energy.

The ‘Chbika’ project aims to develop 1 GW of onshore solar and wind capacities that will power the production of green hydrogen through the electrolysis of desalinated seawater and lead to the production of 200,000 tons per year of green ammonia for the European market. The project will constitute the first phase of a development program which is aimed at creating a world-scale green hydrogen production hub.