Prior to this role, Peter Zornio held the position of chief technology officer at Emerson’s Automation Solutions business. He is now responsible for leading innovation strategy, overall product roadmap, technology and portfolio direction, central R&D functions, and industry standards across Emerson.

Albemarle Corporation has recently launched a new technology – Merclok that can capture mercury from soil and mining waste. The technology is non-hazardous for workers who use the recommended personal protective equipment and is also safe for the ecological environment.

Fluor’s scope of work includes engineering, procurement and construction management services for Albemarle’s Lithium Conversion facility in China. On completion, the facility is expected to produce 50,000 tons of lithium hydroxide annually.

LG Chem has plans to build a ‘Dry Reforming of Methane’ facility, a carbon mitigation facility which lowers CO2 emissions by more than 50 % and produces raw materials for plastics from CO2 captured at the plant. Proprietary technologies will be adopted for this project.

Why do some heat exchangers fail while others run reliably year after year? Although hardly any process plant can do without heat exchangers, the apparatus itself is far too often a black box during operation. There is another way: If you understand which heat exchangers are fouled and why, and what needs to be done, you can save money, energy and cleaning costs.

With an aim to establish a global nylon 6,6 production facility at its South Carolina site in the USA, Invista has broken ground for a new nylon polymer facility at the site. The new plant is expected to increase the production volume of polymers at the site.

Sulzer has modernized its Kotka pump factory in Finland by inaugurating a highly automated and digitized pump production line which will help to reduce the production throughput time by 93 %. The firm has also launched a new logistics center at the site.

BASF Coatings has recently inaugurated its largest surface treatment site in Pinghu City, Zhejiang Province, China. The site offers various applied surface treatment products and solutions for numerous market segments and comprises of a smart factory which enables process automation and digitalization of the site operations for high efficiency in manufacturing and site logistics.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of October 2022’ from all over the world. Right from the world’s first demo plant for electrically heated steam cracker furnaces taking off to Dow and Mura developing Europe’s largest advanced recycling plant in Germany, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Under a long-term agreement signed between both the parties, Air Liquide will develop a new hydrogen production unit at the Grandpuits site in France. This unit will partly use biogas from Total Energies’ Grandpuits biorefinery and make use of Air Liquide’s carbon capture technology to produce renewable, low-carbon hydrogen which will be used by the biorefinery to produce sustainable aviation fuel.