Claimed to be one of the world’s largest industrial heat pumps for CO2-free steam generation, BASF’s industrial heat pump at the Ludwigshafen site in Germany is expected to produce up to 500,000 tons of CO2-free steam per year. With a thermal output of around 50 MWs, the mega heat pump has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions at the site by up to 100,000 tons per year.

Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Ruhr University Bochum and Evonik Oxeno have developed a novel catalyst system that enables the use of the climate gas carbon dioxide as a raw material for the chemical industry.

The demand for green chemicals has significantly increased due to the pressing emphasis on decarbonization of industries, strong government regulations in support of the environment and a change in consumer preferences towards sustainable alternatives. PROCESS Worldwide shares an overview about the green chemicals market as well as highlights industry trends in this space.

Praj Industries utilized Axens’ Jetanol technology to demonstrate its Ethanol-to-Jet (EtJ) process at its fully integrated SAF plant in India. With this, the plant has now proven its technological readiness for both AtJ pathways.

Ørsted claims to be the first energy company in the world to reach its industry-leading decarbonization target, thereby reducing its carbon emissions by 98 %. Renewable energy now accounts for 99 % of the company’s energy production, while its scope 1 and 2 emissions intensity has been reduced by more than 98 % compared to 2006.

The consortium—Sumitomo Corporation, Asahi Kasei Corporation, Eneos Corporation, JFE Steel Corporation, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation—has been selected by Jogmec to conduct a commissioned design work for CO₂ separation, capture, liquefaction, temporary storage, and shipping facilities for Ship-Based Advanced CCS.

Aternium has chosen Siemens Energy to carry out a Front-End Engineering Design study for a clean hydrogen production facility. The Feed study will focus on optimizing the design, standardization, and engineering aspects of the facility to ensure it meets the highest safety, environmental and operational standards.

BASF’s new acid chlorides and chloroformates production plant is a fully modernized plant located at its Ludwigshafen Verbund site in Germany. The low three-digit million-euro investment includes a fundamental renewal of the production infrastructure for acid chlorides and chloroformates and increases production capacity at the site by approximately 30 %.

Eni is opening up its supercomputing infrastructure and making its computational capacity, specialist expertise and advanced tools available to companies, start-ups and research centres with an aim to support the development of artificial intelligence solutions and digital innovation.

Under a 20-year on-site gas supply agreement signed between Inoxap and Premier Energies, Inoxap will install and commission a cryogenic Air Separation Unit. The new unit is expected to supply 7000 nm3/h of gaseous nitrogen of 5N grade, 250 nm3/h of ultra-high purity gaseous oxygen of 6N grade, along with some additional liquid products to Premier Energies’ solar cell greenfield manufacturing facility in India.