Vertex Energy has completed the first commercial sales of renewable diesel from its renewable diesel production facility at its Mobile refinery in Alabama, USA. The initial sales totaled 110,000 barrels of renewable diesel and the firm intends to work towards its target of achieving approximately 8,000 bpd, by the end of 2Q23.

Today, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) facilities around the world have the capacity to capture more than 40 Mt CO2 each year, according to the International Energy Agency. This figure is set to increase as more countries form CCUS-friendly policies in order to establish these green projects with aim to decarbonize its industrial facilities.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of March 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Lyondell Basell starting up the world’s largest PO, TBA facility to Indian Oil developing a mega petrochemical complex, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Steriline will be exhibiting its Robotic Nest Filling Machine at the upcoming Interphex 2023 trade fair in New York, USA. The firm’s technologies cater to the cell and gene therapy market.

Pall Life Sciences and Cytiva will operate as a combined business under the Cytiva name whereas Pall will be held as a product family name. The move will also lead to re-branding under the Cytiva brand name.

Lotte Biologics has acquired the Syracuse plant in the United States from Bristol Myers Squibb Co. and now plans to expand it by adding ADC contract manufacturing services as well as clinical drug substance incubation and drug product facilities. The firm also plans to invest 3 billion dollars to develop three mega plants in Korea by 2030 with a total production capacity of 360,000 liters of antibody drugs.

Brooks Instrument has released three new certifications available for its SLA Series and SLA Series Biotech mass flow controllers (MFCs) and meters, adding to its wide offering of product documentation.

Mitsui and Olin Corporation have set up the ‘Blue Water Alliance’ joint venture which will grant access to greater security of supply, enhanced logistics reliability, increased access to global product liquidity, and network optimization to support decarbonization.

Air Liquide’s autothermal reforming technology has been chosen by Inpex Corporation for Japan’s first demonstration project which aims to produce low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia. Once combined with carbon capture technology, autothermal reforming can achieve higher energy efficiency, lower investments and a production process which can assist in capturing up to 99 % of carbon in integrated industrial units.

Leybold has introduced two new vacuum pumps DV 650 and DV 800 FP-r under its Dryvac series. These solutions are compact, easy to maintain, clean and also offer high tolerance to vapor, liquid slugs and soft particles.