Técnicas Reunidas has bagged a contract for project management, engineering, procurement and construction management and supervision services for Ineos’ mega ethylene facility in Europe. Claimed to be a milestone project in the European chemical sector, the plant will be built in the Belgian port of Antwerp and will have a production capacity of 1.5 million tons annually.

A time and space-saving combination of process steps in one mixing reactor — In industrial production processes, chemical reactions are generally part of a multi-stage process chain comprising both the synthesis process itself and a number of processing steps before and after. The vacuum mixing reactors of Lödige Process Technology make it possible to perform several of these steps one after the other in the same machine.

Exxonmobil has developed an innovative methanol-to-jet SAF technology by using renewable methanol as feedstock. The move is aimed at decarbonizing the aviation industry and achieving a net-zero future.

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has regularly hit the headlines: in 2016, it beats Grandmaster Lee Sedol in playing Go, and in 2018, the auction house Christie's auctioned off the first artwork created by artificial intelligence, "Portrait of Edmond de Belamy", for over 400,000 dollars. And today the AI-based text generator GPT-3 from the research laboratory Open AI, co-founded by Elon Musk, is said to flood the web with fake news through machine-generated posts but what about industrial applications of artificial intelligence? What are the opportunities and challenges of AI in the process industry?

Why do you only need to remember one radar level sensor from now on? Whether you’re dealing with liquid or bulk material, whether at 6 GHz, 26 GHz or 80 GHz — in future, one radar sensor will cover all applications. It couldn’t be simpler, promise the radar experts at Vega, who have one thing in mind above all: better processes for the user.

With a mega investment of 7-million-dollars, Borealis has developed a new filtration system with assistance from the Technische Universität Wien and the Graz University of Technology. The system boasts of reducing the loss of plastic pellets into the environment in order to meet the goal of zero pellet loss.

With fast data communication and high bandwidths, Industrial Ethernet paves the way to Industry 4.0 in the chemical, oil/gas and petrochemical industries. But what about in zone 0, 1 or 2? From A for antenna to W for WLAN: typical problems that can arise with Ethernet installations in hazardous areas and the right solution.

Fintoil has partnered with Emerson and Neste Engineering Solutions to optimize operations at its under construction biorefinery in Finland. Automation software and advanced digital technologies will be installed at the plant which is expected to produce advanced biofuel and biochemical feedstocks that will assist in reducing emissions.

The process industries must establish efficient and circular processes that do not require fossil raw materials and energy. But what does that mean for the careful use of water as a resource? We talked about this with Dr. Thomas Track, Head of Dechema’s Water Management Department.

Kubota Corporation has taken over Brabender Technologie, one of the largest gravimetric feeding system firms in the world. With this move, the company intends to further expand its business in the gravimetric and volumetric feeder market.