With an aim to carry out sustainable operations, many industries are now increasingly making use of recycled or treated water which are sourced from wastewater treatment plants instead of using limited fresh water resources. New areas of interest such as green hydrogen production is also following the same route. Smart technologies are also being explored to optimize water usage, minimize wastage and even tap innovative ways to obtain water for industrial operations.

Under a MOU signed between Evonik and Qatar Free Zones Authority, Evonik will explore specific investment opportunities focused on sustainable solutions for energy transition in Qatar.

Evonik has expanded the manufacturing capacity of Tegosoft MM MB in China. The company’s Care Solutions organics plant, as a second site, will now be producing this product which will assist the firm to cater to the strong Asia Pacific market with ease.

MOL Group’s new polyol complex in Tiszaújváros has a capacity of producing around 200,000 tonnes of polyol per year. With this project, the company aims to establish new standards in terms of efficiency, environmental friendliness and automation by combining proven technologies with innovative solutions.

BASF has plans to expand its advanced additives plant at its Nanjing site in China. The expansion will include a production line, for high-performance Controlled Free Radical Polymerization dispersants, with state-of-the-art production processes.

The International Chemical Investors Group has decided to takeover Evonik’s superabsorbents business. The move is in line with Evonik’s goal of divesting its Performance Materials Division.

Under a term sheet signed between both the parties, AM Green will supply renewable ammonia from its Kakinada production facility in India to Yara Clean Ammonia which will use it to produce low-emission fertilizers as well as to de-carbonize other industries.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of May 2022’ from all over the world. Right from developing a world scale ethylene plant in Europe to building one of the world’s largest PDH units in China, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The digital twin technology replicates the physical assets of production processes or performance of a production system into a virtual system. With the adoption of this technology, industry players will be able to make use of real-time data to make informed decisions about the lifecycle of plants, processes as well as production, leading to optimized industrial operations across the chemical and petrochemical industries.

With chemical and chemical processing industries aiming to forge ahead in their automation and digitalization drive to develop their respective ‘Factory of the future’ or ‘Smart factory’, one thing is certain – it can’t be done without the use of robots at least for the time being. The concept of robots is not new but they have been transformed time and again to meet the challenges of today’s industrial plants especially with regard to plant inspection as well as maintenance and it won’t be wrong to term this phase as the ‘return and rise of robots.’