PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of March 2025’ from all over the world. Right from ABB and Charbone Hydrogen collaborating for green hydrogen production units to Aramco launching Saudi’s first CO2 direct air capture test unit, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The pilot plant has the capacity to recycle complex waste streams from end-of-life vehicles via chemical recycling in order to produce raw materials for new vehicle components such as foam for steering wheels.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2025’ from all over the world. Right from Repsol investing 800+ million euros for a renewable methanol project in Europe to Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s CCU technology being selected for ammonia, urea plants in Egypt, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Ima Active’s wedge wire screen drum is designed to integrate seamlessly with standard Perfima equipment, resulting in the innovative Perfima Edge. This enhancement brings the capability of side vented pan coating to smaller particles, such as pellets or minitablets. The drum's wedge wires feature a rounded, smooth design, ensuring minimal impact on the product and enhancing flowability. The drum’s unique structure also supports high process air volumes, enabling increased spray rates and efficient, short processing times comparable to traditional perforated drum coaters and provides an interesting alternative to fluid bed thanks to its reduced footprint by at least 30 %.

BASF has plans to shut down the adipic acid, cyclododecanone and cyclopentanone production units at the Ludwigshafen site next year. The move has been undertaken to improve profitability at the site.

BASF has recently inaugurated a new mega production plant for alkyl ethanolamines at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. With this project, the company is expected to increase its global annual production capacity for alkyl ethanolamines by nearly 30 percent to over 140,000 tons per year.

With everything changing around us right from the way we secure our knowledge, to communicating with people to the way the workforce across industries is being made to upgrade their existing skill sets to take on more productive tasks, one thing is certain: Change is constant. Smart technologies like Augmented Reality have not only entered the workforce but are transforming the workforce like never before.

BASF has switched its production to bio-based Ethyl Acrylate starting Q4 2024. Bio-based EA has a certified 14C-traceable content of 40 % and offers a product carbon footprint reduction of 30 % compared to fossil-based EA.

Numerous four-legged robot dogs are inspecting different spaces across the industrial plant; facility personnel are wearing head-mounted displays which helps them to get access to detailed information about an equipment or process in real time and diverse physical assets of a system or production process at the plant can be replicated into a virtual system, get ready for the plant of the future!

Under the terms of the 7-year Biomethane Purchase Agreement, Engie will supply BASF with 2.7 to 3.0 terawatt hours of biomethane. With this move, BASF aims to reduce its carbon footprint.