OQ Chemicals is in the process of expanding its production capacity for carboxylic acids in Germany. The firm’s carboxylic acids are used in the animal feed industry to produce innovative feed additives as well as in the production of highly efficient lubricants for eco-friendly, and energy-saving air conditioning systems.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of December 2022’ from all over the world. Right from developing Europe’s largest green hydrogen hub to Sulzer offering technologies for the world’s first commercial scale e-methanol plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Coating is nowadays an integral part of pharmaceutical tablet and pellet production. Nevertheless, there are some problem areas that have not been adequately solved so far, some of which are nearly accepted, although they have an impact on almost every coating process and entail economic losses. To a certain extent, this is due to a presumed lack of possible solutions - but they do exist and are promising. In particular, a new generation of tablet coaters is addressing these challenges in an innovative way.

Wood has secured a Feed contract by Gen2 Energy to develop a new 100 MW green hydrogen production facility in Mosjøen, Norway. The plant is expected to produce around 45 tonnes of green hydrogen daily.

The increasing demand for industrial pumps in China has led Netzsch Pumps & Systems to relocate to a new site in order to expand its production capacity. The site is located on the Dinglian Industrial Park, one of the five state-approved industrial parks in the Lanzhou New and High-tech Industrial Development Zone.

Cepsa will be investing a hefty amount of 3-billion-euros to establish the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe. In addition to this, the firm will invest another 2-billion-euros to develop a 3 GW portfolio of wind and solar energy projects in order to generate renewable electricity for the project.

Under a MOU signed between BP and the Government of Egypt, BP will conduct numerous studies to analyze the feasibility of developing a large-scale green hydrogen production facility in Egypt.

SGP Bioenergy has plans to establish Latin America’s largest renewable fuels plant in Panama. For this project, the company has selected Topsoe to support the production of low-carbon fuels. Once complete, the biorefinery is expected to produce 180,000 barrels per day of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel, and 405,000 metric tonnes of green hydrogen annually.

KBR’s clean ammonia platform aims to meet the future demand for sustainable energy and fertilizers. The move has been undertaken by the firm as the global demand for clean ammonia is expected to increase significantly in the future.

The separation of liquid phases is the supreme discipline for centrifuges. Continuous processes and modular concepts bring more efficiency to extraction and separation and also give digitalization a boost.