PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of November 2023’ from all over the world. Right from OMV, Interzero developing Europe’s largest sorting facility for chemical recycling to inaugurating the world’s first pilot plant for green methanol in Germany, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Solvay has inaugurated a new blowing agent production unit in Rosignano, Italy. This project is expected to revolutionize the plastic foaming industry.

A 20-million-dollar investment has been announced by Lubrizol towards its Gastonia plant in North Carolina, USA. With this mega investment, the company aims to improve its production of innovative acrylic emulsions.

The new carbon capture and utilization technology will be tested at OMV Petrom’s Petrobrazi refinery in Romania. The tests which are a part of a demonstration campaign will be carried out in three countries - Denmark, Romania and Greece.

Cepsa and Evos will work together to store green methanol produced by Cepsa at Evos’ storage facilities in Algeciras, Spain and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In addition to this, green ammonia will also be stored in Algeciras, Spain.

Even after the Corona pandemic has subsided, the demand for pharmaceuticals is increasing. But the requirements are changing - and this has an impact on production equipment. Machines for packaging medicines are not exempt from this. And their manufacturers are only spurred on by this.

Linde under its subsidiary White Martins has plans to build, own and operate a second electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen in Brazil. On completion, the plant is expected to supply green hydrogen to glass manufacturer Cebrace to reduce emissions from their glass melting furnaces.

The mega and fully automatic sorting plant will produce feedstock for chemical recycling. OMV will invest 170 plus million euros to build the plant which is expected to have a capacity of up to 260,000 tonnes per year in Walldürn, Germany.

With the introduction of Tab-Ex 04 Pro DZ2 / D2, Pepperl+Fuchs has expanded its Tab-Ex tablet series. The tablet is based on the Samsung Galaxy Tabactive4 Pro and features a 480 nit 10” touch screen paired with the latest hardware and connectivity options.

Industrial plants are high risk zones and have to be monitored carefully to avoid any catastrophe. Supervision technologies such as advanced robots and drones play a crucial role here to make the job of monitoring the diverse elements of the facility less stressful, more convenient and less time consuming. Read on to know more about the benefits of these hi-tech technologies in industrial settings.