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.

Electric vehicles are in great demand across the globe as it does not emit any emissions. The significant growth of this sector has encouraged industry players in the supply chain to develop more advanced, sustainable and high-energy density battery solutions in the form of completely new batteries and innovative battery materials for EVs.

BASF is expected organize and manage the entire recycling process for the lithium-ion batteries used on Iveco Group electric vans, buses and trucks. The move is in line with Iveco Group’s circular economy strategy of increasing the lifetime of its batteries while decreasing its overall environmental impact.

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.

BASF process catalysts has collaborated with Envision Energy to further optimize the process of producing e-methanol from green hydrogen and CO2 via an advanced, dynamic process design. The partners aim to demonstrate the viability of the advanced process design next year.

Under a black mass purchase agreement signed between both the parties, BASF and Stena Recycling will work together to develop improved black mass production processes in order to achieve high recovery rates for metals to support closed loop solutions for the European electric vehicle battery market.

On December 21, 2023, BASF, Letter One and Harbour Energy reached an agreement on the future of Dea Wintershall's exploration and production business. The business, excluding Russia-related activities, is to be transferred to Harbour Energy.

The chemical industry is striving to accomplish decarbonization in its overall operations in order to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. For this purpose, the sector is exploring many existing as well as innovative technologies to help it transform like never before.

Dr. Markus Kamieth has been appointed as the new chairman of BASF’s Board of Directors. He will succeed Dr. Martin Brudermüller, who has held the post since 2018.

As the year 2023 is now passé and the New Year has begun with great vigor, we have listed below the ‘Top 10 Articles’ of PROCESS Worldwide in 2023. These write-ups have attracted the most views by our readers, we hope you enjoy reading all of them.