CF Industries has awarded a licensing and engineering contract to Topsoe to support a front-end engineering and design study of a new low-carbon ammonia plant in Louisiana, USA.

Cost plays a vital role while developing industrial plants but by opting for a modular plant, capex costs, material costs and even labor costs can be slashed. Also, modular, skid-mounted units are developed in-doors under controlled environments and at speed which helps to save valuable time for industry players.

With an aim to manufacture advanced and energy efficient Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cells for clean hydrogen production, Topsoe will be setting up a factory in Virginia, USA. The move follows the company receiving nearly 136 million dollars in federal Section 48C tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act.

Guangxi Hongkun Biomass has selected Topsoe’s Hydroflex technology for producing sustainable aviation fuel at its plant in the Qinzhou Port Area Free Trade Pilot Zone of Guangxi, China. The project is expected to process 300,000 tons of feedstock annually.

Carbon Clean has achieved a fabrication milestone on the Flagshipone project which is claimed to be Europe’s largest e-methanol plant and Ørsted’s largest commercial-scale Power-to-X facility. The project is expected to supply up to 55,000 tonnes of e-methanol per year to the shipping industry.

These are the birth pangs of a new economy: the increasing demand for chemical products is bringing growth to the industry, which at the same time has to cope with the necessary transformation towards climate neutrality. For chemical plant construction, both of these factors mean a lot of work in the coming years - in addition to enormous challenges, huge opportunities await.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of April 2024’ from all over the world. Right from the MOL Group inaugurating one of the largest green hydrogen plants in Europe to BASF, Sabic and Linde starting up the world’s first large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnace, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Zaffra, the new joint venture will focus on developing and delivering Sustainable Aviation Fuel. With this move, Sasol and Topsoe will combine their expertise in order to decarbonize the aviation industry.

A leading South Korean industrial supplier of hydrogen, Approtium has selected Topsoe’s ammonia cracking technology, H2retake for converting low-carbon ammonia (blue ammonia) back into hydrogen at its facility in Ulsan, South Korea. The facility is expected to produce 75,000 metric tons of hydrogen every year.

Under a licensing and engineering agreement, Preem has chosen Topsoe’s Hydroflex technology to produce sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel at its lysekil refinery in Sweden. The technology will be used at the refinery’s Isocracker unit and have a capacity of 1.2 million cubic meters per year for the production of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel.