The European Commission has organized a two-day event wherein 30 plus start-ups funded by the European Innovation Council will share their innovative solutions with 13 of the leading chemical companies and associations in the region with an aim to contribute to the European Green Deal.

KBR and Terrestrial Energy will jointly investigate the application of zero-emission thermal energy for hydrogen and ammonia production by analyzing the use of Terrestrial Energy’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) nuclear cogeneration technology.

BP has entered into strategic partnerships with Adnoc and Masdar for its blue hydrogen project, H2Teesside as well as its green hydrogen project, Hygreen Teesside respectively in the UK. Under the contracts, the Gulf firms will acquire stake in both the projects with an aim to develop low carbon hydrogen hubs in the country.

Shanghai Chemical Industry Park Industrial Gases, a subsidiary of Air Liquide, will invest more than 204 million dollars to build two hydrogen production units and related infrastructure in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park.

Engineering company ECI Group has signed two license agreements for Process Technology and Engineering Design with a confidential client in China. The plants will be part of the client’s refining and petrochemical integrated project, a mega complex to be located in the Province of Jiangsu.

The Module Type Package (MTP) provides a modern solution to modularize a plant in the domain of process industries. To achieve this, MTP defines an interface for the simple orchestration and connection of modules to a higher-level control system. With TwinCAT MTP, Beckhoff enables MTP project planning and automatic code generation. This solution opens up an integrated and efficient way to develop modules in the universal TwinCAT engineering environment.

The joint project ‘Hystoc EU’ is a byword for ‘Hydrogen Supply and Transportation using liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers’ (LOHC) and aims to establish and test an efficient hydrogen value chain utilizing Hydrogenious’ proprietary LOHC technology in Finland.

Repower EU is a plan to rapidly reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuels and quickly adopt the green transition. Cefic has recently issued a statement along with a position paper sharing its views on the plan.

Before new active ingredients can achieve market success, comes drug delivery. OSDs continue to rank highly as the formulation of choice. Why the pellet is probably the most versatile active ingredient formulation, but at the same time the most underestimated.

Petróleo Brasileiro has awarded an EPCC contract to Toyo Engineering to build a new diesel oil hydrotreating unit and hydrogen recovery unit at the replan refinery in Brazil. The project is expected to boost production of S-10 diesel (ultra-low sulfur diesel) by 63,000 bpd.