Saudi Aramco and Sabic AN have been awarded the world’s first TÜV certificate of accreditation for blue hydrogen, ammonia products. This move marks a significant milestone in the development of ‘blue’ hydrogen and ammonia businesses.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of July 2022’ from all over the world. Right from Lonza developing a large-scale fill & finish facility for commercial drug products to Shell building Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Graforce’s methane electrolysis technology (plasmalysis) makes use of LNG or LPG to produce clean-burning hydrogen and solid, high-purity carbon. The innovative technology is expected to help the EU meet its decarbonization targets.

Making the right decision when it comes to packaging material is a challenge for manufacturers. Factors such as product protection, machine runnability, environmental friendliness, cost-effectiveness and consumer expectations all need to be reconciled. A seemingly sustainable material may not necessarily be the most ecological solution. Packaging machine manufacturer Schubert has been building up comprehensive expertise for several years, which it intends to make increasingly available to its customers in the future.

The OPC Foundation (OPCF) and the Fieldcomm Group (FCG) have got together to drive multi-vendor interoperability of instrumentation devices based on OPC UA and the extensions for the field level, named OPC UA FX. The partnership is expected to harmonize OPC UA-based field instruments and increase the development and adoption in automation.

With an aim to provide technical skills and knowledge to budding students intending to join the global industrial automation sector, Honeywell in collaboration with the University Politehnica of Bucharest has launched the ‘Industrial Automation Lab’.

Evonik has revealed that it plans to substitute up to 40 % of natural gas at its German sites with alternative energy sources in the background of a looming Russian gas stop. The firm’s Marl site, which is its largest German site, is currently in the process of using LPG to generate energy.

Fluid Components International’s ST80L Series thermal mass flow meter is used for the vegetable oil hydrogenation process. The flow meter provides accurate H2 gas mass flow measurement which helps the food and beverage sector to deliver tasty products.

Saudi Aramco and Sinopec have entered into a MOU to collaborate on multiple areas such as assessing refining and petrochemical integration opportunities; engineering, procurement and construction; oilfield services, upstream and downstream technologies as well as collaboration across carbon capture and hydrogen processes.

Nutrien has appointed Ken Seitz as its new President and CEO. Seitz had been appointed as interim CEO by the firm since January 2022 and under his leadership, the company has achieved significant results.