PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the most recent plant engineering projects from all over the world. Right from Front-End Engineering Design (Feed) contracts to plant revamp projects, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Haldor Topsoe’s Tigas technology has been selected by Nacero for its Penwell facility in Houston, Texas, USA. With this technology, Nacero aims at reducing the lifecycle carbon footprint of its gasoline production.

Tidewater has chosen Topsoe’s Hydroflex and H2bridge technologies for its new renewable diesel facility in Canada which is expected to produce 3,000 barrels per day. Once completed, the project will be the country’s first commercial-scale stand-alone renewable diesel plant.

Haldor Topsoe and Nel have entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the intent to offer customers complete renewable electricity to ammonia and methanol solutions.

The new green ammonia facility will make use of Haldor Topsoe’s proprietary solid oxide electrolyzer cells (SOEC) to produce green hydrogen from 100 MWs of renewable electricity. The project is expected to be operational by 2024.

The large-scale manufacturing facility is expected to have an electrolyzer production capacity of 500 MW per year which can be expandable to 5 GW. Work on the unit will begin in 2022 and will be operational by 2023.

Haldor Topsoe’s total revenue increased by 5 % to 1,010 million dollars in 2020. Last year, the company also introduced a new organization to focus on carbon emission reduction technologies.

CVR Energy’s subsidiary has selected Haldor Topsoe’s hydroflex technology to revamp its Oklahoma refinery in the USA in order to produce 100 million gallons of renewable diesel per year. Under the terms of the contract, Topsoe will deliver basic engineering, license, proprietary equipment and catalyst for its Hydroflex technology.

Haldor Topsoe has announced the successful startup of the first Tertinox catalyst reference at Kavala Fertilizers in Greece. The move aims at reducing harmful N₂O and NOx in the nitric acid industry and the nitric acid unit is expected to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 30.000 tons CO2 equivalents per year.

Greenergy has plans to invest in Front End Engineering Design of a project to produce low-carbon transportation fuels from waste tires. The new facility is expected to process up to 300 tons of shredded tires each day to produce low-carbon fuels in the first phase. A second independent plant could also be set up to produce sustainable aviation fuel.