Under an agreement signed between Linde and Heidelberg Materials, both the firms will jointly develop and operate a large-scale carbon capture and liquefaction facility in Germany. The new project aims to capture, liquefy and purify around 70,000 tons of CO₂ annually.

Solvolysis and pyrolysis are two established technologies for chemical recycling. Both of these technologies involve demanding tasks for the mixing technology. This article summarizes the practical approaches to address these challenges — from lab, through piloting and demonstration scale, before building a commercial reactor or plant system.

Clariant has inaugurated its new Catofin catalyst production site in China which aims to strengthen its regional presence and increase its local production of catalyst technologies. The project was completed in 18 months.

Under a joint venture, Saipem and Clough will establish a mega urea plant for Perdaman Industries in Western Australia. The plant aims to minimize both industrial emissions and the carbon footprint of fertilizer production.

thyssenkrupp At.Pro tec is well known for the development of the sequence impulse process (SIP). When used on cupola furnaces, it considerably increased their cost-effectiveness in the past. In over 10 years of development work with Schubert & Salzer as their partner, Dr. Rainer Klock and the team at At.Pro tec succeeded in getting the SIP technology to work on blast furnaces, too, with the help of sliding gate valves. This is a story of a researcher who is on his way to becoming a plant manufacturer.

Under a MOU signed between Keppel Infrastructure and Exxonmobil Asia Pacific, both the firms will work together to explore low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia solutions in Singapore. The move has been carried out in the background of the Singapore Government’s launch of the National Hydrogen Strategy which expects hydrogen to meet up to half of Singapore’s power needs by 2050.

Emerson has been selected to automate the Golden Triangle Polymers Project, one of the world’s largest ethane crackers. Located in the USA, the mega integrated polymers facility aims to achieve 25 % lower GHG emissions than similar facilities in the region.

Hapco, a joint venture of Aramco, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to establish a new refinery and petrochemical complex in China. Aramco will be supplying up to 210,000 barrels per day of crude oil feedstock to the facility which is expected to be operational by 2026.

Sulzer has started-up the world’s largest facility for styrene extraction from pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) derived from naphtha cracking. The plant makes use of Sulzer Chemtech’s proprietary GT-Styrene licensed technology to produce 100’000 tonnes of styrene annually.

With the series of process runs at its Porvoo refinery in Finland, Neste aims to understand how different types of waste plastics behave during chemical recycling in the refinery processes.