Long Son Petrochemicals have awarded a contract to Technip Energies for its Long Son Petrochemical Enhancemeant Project located in Lon Son Island, Vietnam. The project is among the first worldwide in recent years to convert a naphtha-based steam cracker to ethane.

Emerson and Aramco will work together to co-develop the next-generation corrosion management solutions for Aramco. As part of the corrosion R&D collaboration, Aramco will combine its expertise and intellectual property with Emerson’s advanced corrosion solutions to digitalize and transform corrosion management.

Emerson’s Aspen Hybrid Models have been integrated into Aramco’s existing refinery planning framework, leading to the development of one of the world’s largest multi-site, multi-period optimization models.

Topsoe has secured a grant of approximately 3.6 million dollars for Powerfactor, a project that focuses on ensuring Power-to-X plants connect safely and reliably to the power grid.

Dupont’s Memcor membrane bioreactor system has been chosen for the Riverstone Water Resource Recovery Facility in Sydney, Australia. The Memcor MBR system will consist of 2,592 Mempulse B50 MBR modules and will support a plant designed for an average flow capacity of 24.8 megaliters per day and a peak wet weather flow of 86 MLD.

UPM’s barrier and barrier base papers along with BASF’s Joncryl high performance barrier technology resins will be combined to enable the development of packaging materials suitable for a wide range of food and non-food applications that meet demanding regulatory requirements.

Thyssenkrupp Uhde has won pre-feed contracts for two large-scale green ammonia projects by Fuella. The projects are located in the Port of Pecém, Brazil and the Port of Açu, Brazil.

Under a long-term strategic alliance between Bayer and BP, both the companies will work together to jointly scale the crop camelina. The collaboration aims to further develop a reliable intermediate oilseeds market to meet the growing demand for biodiesel, renewable diesel, and sustainable aviation fuel markets.

The first of the two modules for Ineos’ ‘Project One’ cracker has been successfully delivered to the Port of Antwerp after being stuck in the Strait of Hormuz for months. The module weighs 6,920 tonnes and is 55 metres high.

This smart technology has been in the news for quite some time but how useful is it for industrial plants? Bart Moors, General Manager Process Industries Software at Siemens and Prathamesh Gawde, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Bentley Systems highlight the many benefits of adopting the digital twin technology across industrial facilities.