Wacker has been able to successfully test CO2 capture from the silicone production process at its production site in Holla, Norway, where quartz and carbon are combined to produce silicon for use in its silicone products.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains has selected Braskem to negotiate terms of a 50 million-dollar award under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. With this huge funding, Braskem aims to expand its ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene production capabilities in Texas in order to cater to the lithium-ion battery separator market.

The consortium which includes Adnoc, Borealis and Borouge has entered into a Project Collaboration Agreement with Wanhua Chemical to develop a speciality polyolefins complex in the Fujian Province in China. The project is expected to produce 1.6 million tonnes per annum of speciality polyolefins.

With an aim to improve the energy efficiency of its 3,100 MTPD urea plant in China, Linggu Chemical has awarded Stamicarbon with a licensing and process design package. The proprietary Advanced MP Flash Design helps to reduce the overall energy consumption of the plant by up to 20 %.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as well as Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) is picking up steam and can be considered as revolutionary solutions that can help hard-to-abate industries to reduce their carbon emissions in the short-to-long term. Both CCS and CCU will play a vital role for these industries as they prepare to reach their goals of meeting net zero emissions by 2050.

Hycamite TCD Technologies has recently inaugurated Europe’s largest methane-splitting plant in Kokkola, Finland. Once fully operational, the nominal capacity of Hycamite’s Customer Sample Facility is expected to reach 2,000 tonnes of low-carbon hydrogen and 6,000 tonnes of high-quality carbon annually.

HIF Global has entered into a land reservation contract with the Port of Açu to develop an e-methanol project in Brazil with an aim to produce up to 800,000 tons per year of e-Methanol.

SK Energy will begin commercial operations for sustainable aviation fuels at its new facility in South Korea next month. The facility will make use of the advanced co-processing technology as well as bio-feedstocks such as used cooking oil and animal fat to produce SAF and other low-carbon products.

Mantel Capture has secured a funding of 30 million dollars for demonstrating its low cost and energy efficient carbon capture technology at an industrial site. The funding is being co-led by Shell Ventures and Eni Next.

Distillation is an important process for industrial process plants and can be segregated into seven main types – Simple, Fractional, Vacuum, Steam, Air-Sensitive, Zone and Short Path distillation. PROCESS Worldwide explains the core definition of distillation as well as elaborates on each of the different types of distillation used by industry players in great detail. Read on to know more…