Solvay and Iberdrola Renouvelables France have plans to enter into a 20-year corporate power purchase agreement under which Iberdrola will supply 60 % of the produced green electricity to Solvay’s industrial sites in Tavaux and Saint Fons in France.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of October 2022’ from all over the world. Right from the world’s first demo plant for electrically heated steam cracker furnaces taking off to Dow and Mura developing Europe’s largest advanced recycling plant in Germany, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Digital pumps are here to stay: A recent study shows that the market for digital and connected pumps could nearly double in size within the next decade. But which trends and developments drive the market and what to expect of the next decade?

Improving productivity, flexibility, and speed in operations as well as processes is the goal which every industry player strives to achieve and digital transformation offers just that. With its many efficient and problem-solving technologies, the industry is slowly beginning to realize the plus points and necessity of this much needed transformation. After all, everyone wants to stay ahead in the game and nobody wants to be left out.

Time is running out and we are still struggling to achieve the net zero emissions deadline by 2050 but there’s still hope. The industrial sector, one of the most carbon-intensive industries, is consciously making an effort to decarbonize itself and one of the methods which the sector is adopting is by switching to the production of clean green hydrogen as well as low carbon hydrogen i.e. blue hydrogen.

ABB has entered into an agreement with Hydrogen Optimized to expand its existing partnership in the field of large-scale green hydrogen production systems. The deal also includes an investment into Hydrogen Optimized’s parent company.

Ethernet-APL (Advanced Physical Layer) offers considerable benefits for end users in the process industry by facilitating seamless connectivity between field devices using the Ethernet protocol and greatly simplifying the creation of high-performance automation networks.

Any review of China’s chemical industry in 2021 is dominated by the two big issues the industry had to wrestle with: climate neutrality and Corona. These are the same issues that will dominate the year 2022. The industry as a whole in the People’s Republic is facing enormous challenges and changes — while at the same time there are great growth opportunities for certain sectors. However, the ongoing global epidemic, including in China, continues to create uncertainty.

In a new study, a research group at Arizona State University explores different approaches to catalysis, a chemical process that plays an essential role in biological reactions, as well as many industrial applications.

The increasingly relevant climate change coupled with the worldwide static increase in energy consumption by industry and private households requires us to rethink. New climate-neutral alternatives are being promoted more and more. One of the biggest hopes in the field of climate neutrality is hydrogen. But what is hydrogen? How can we produce it and where can it help us?