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.

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.

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.

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?

The future of process plant communication will be triggered by one key technology: Ethernet-APL. This end-to-end Ethernet solution will enable the free flow of information to and from the field and finally unleash the full potential of the visions behind Industry 4.0.

BASF is working with authorities in China to use more electricity from renewable sources at its chemical plants. The company has just announced a particularly ambitious goal for the new Verbund site in Zhanjiang, in the southern province of Guangdong: The first plants at the Verbund site, which is currently under construction, are to be operated entirely with renewable energies.

Electrostatic discharges create critical safety risks. This article provides examples in powder handling include pneumatic conveyors, big bag filling stations, and even silos where there is the danger of a conical pile discharge. Proper grounding techniques and the correct choice of big bags minimize the hazard.