The Arbaflame project, backed by EU funding, aims to produce biomass pellets which can be used as a 100 % sustainable alternative to coal in power plants to produce carbon-neutral power. Sulzer Chemtech’s separation equipment has been selected to carry out the pellet production process.

In line with the Scottish Government’s ambition of achieving net zero emissions by 2045 in the country, Ineos Grangemouth will further invest 1.37-billion-dollars in addition to the over 686 million dollars already invested at its Grangemouth site in Scotland to deliver emissions savings of more than 60 % across the site by 2030 and thus, achieve net zero emissions by 2045.

An increase in natural gas prices in Europe has affected ammonia production margins which has led Yara to curtail around 40 % of its production across its numerous plants in the region.

Oerlikon Barmag has introduced its new eccentric screw pump series in the market which cover a throughput range of between 1 ml/min. and 30 l/h. The firm also offers the GM and GA series gear metering pumps along with its drum pump.

Shell has teamed up with BlueAlp to develop, scale and deploy BlueAlp’s plastic waste to chemical feedstock technology. The move will enable Shell to reach its ambition of recycling 1 million tons of plastic waste a year in its global chemical plants by 2025.

Ruskhimalyans, Linde, and Renaissance Heavy Industries have entered into an EPC contract to establish a natural gas liquefaction plant within Gazprom and Rusgazdobycha’s joint venture owned Gas Processing Complex near Ust-Luga in Russia. Under the terms of the contract, Linde and Renaissance Heavy Industries will be in-charge of construction and installation of two production trains with a total capacity of 13 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year.

Univation Technologies’ Unipol PE Process has been selected by Repsol for its new 300,000 TPY polyethylene (PE) plant at the company’s Industrial Complex in Sines, Portugal. Univation’s XCAT Metallocene Technology will also be used by the company to produce specialty metallocene PE grades for the European polyethylene film market.

Fluid Components International’s ST50 Series air/gas flow meter is suitable for the measurement of air and natural gas for industrial blowers & dryers in diverse industries such as food/beverage, pharmaceutical, powder/bulk solids, tobacco, etc.

Eni and Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) have entered into a Joint Cooperation and Licensing Agreement for a complete suite of residue hydrocracking technologies. Both the companies will work together to develop the next generation of process and catalyst technologies to address the complete conversion of low-value residua and alternative feedstocks to valuable transportation fuels and petrochemical precursors.

Renewable Energy Group (REG) has decided to shut down its 35 million gallon per year nameplate capacity plant located in Houston, USA in November 2021. The reason behind this is its existing lease agreement as well as lack of multi-feedstock processing capability for delivering clean fuels.