The “dual carbon” goals will bring profound changes to the development of China’s economy. On the road to carbon neutrality in the process industry, digital technology is becoming a new engine driving the high-quality development of the industry. Through continuous digital technology upgrading and application innovation, Siemens is actively integrating cutting-edge technology into industrial practices to promote green productivity of China’s industry. An interview with Dr. Markus Lade, Senior Vice President of Digital Industries and General Manager of Process Automation Business Unit, Siemens, China.

Inpex Corporation has selected BASF’s CO2 capture technology for its Kashiwazaki Clean Hydrogen, Ammonia Project. The project is claimed to be Japan’s first demonstration project for the production of blue hydrogen, ammonia from domestically produced natural gas.

Plug Power will deliver two hydrogen liquefiers to TC Energy Corporation. The highlight of these systems is that it makes use of a hydrogen refrigeration cycle and is claimed to be one of the most energy efficient designs in the market.

Vertex Energy has completed the first commercial sales of renewable diesel from its renewable diesel production facility at its Mobile refinery in Alabama, USA. The initial sales totaled 110,000 barrels of renewable diesel and the firm intends to work towards its target of achieving approximately 8,000 bpd, by the end of 2Q23.

With a production of 1 billion cubic feet of hydrogen per day, Exxonmobil’s facility in Baytown, Texas, USA is expected to be the world’s largest low carbon hydrogen plant. The project will make use of Topsoe’s Syncor hydrogen technology to produce hydrogen as well as capture and store more than 98 % of its associated CO2 emissions.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Europe’s most sustainable cracker securing a funding of 3.5 billion euros to Exxonmobil investing 2-billion-dollars for expanding its Baytown chemical plant in the US, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Total Energies has collaborated with Petronas and Mitsui to establish a carbon storage hub in Malaysia. Under the terms of the contract, the parties will identify the best site for the project and also develop a business framework for commercialization of a carbon storage service in the country.

Chemours has plans to invest the hefty amount at its manufacturing facility in Villers-Saint-Paul, France for increasing capacity as well as advancing technology for its ion exchange materials. The move aims to support decarbonization and also accelerate the hydrogen economy.

With the approval, the joint venture will aim to produce cathode active materials (Cam) and precursor materials (PCAM) in Europe on a large-scale. It will also supply key materials to Power Co's European battery cell factories in the near future.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of March 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Lyondell Basell starting up the world’s largest PO, TBA facility to Indian Oil developing a mega petrochemical complex, find out all the projects making headlines here.