Perstorp Group will be acquired by Petronas Chemicals for a whopping figure of 2.3 billion Euros. The move is in line with Petronas’ aim of accelerating its sustainability ambitions to achieve circular economy and carbon neutrality by 2050.

Air Products has plans to build, own and operate a green liquid hydrogen production plant in Arizona, USA. The 10 metric ton per day facility will supply hydrogen to the mobility market in California and other regions with an aim to decarbonize its transportation sector.

Industrial gases company Air Products announced that its subsidiary Air Products San Fu recently brought two new air separation units onstream. The project is part of the long-term agreements to provide ultra-high purity industrial gases to one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers in Asia.

Keynes Planungsgesellschaft is a German engineering and construction services company operating since the 1960s, focusing on all phases of plant planning. These range from maintenance projects covering the replacement or repair of small numbers of pipelines to larger projects involving upgrades and equipment retrofits and associated piping to even more complex, large-scale projects involving 500 to 3,000 pipelines. This case study focuses on the transition and Keynes’ experience of moving from PDS to Hexagon’s Cadworx Plant Professional software.

A new ethylene complex from Lyondell Basell and its Chinese joint venture partner has officially been put into operation. The petrochemical complex has started manufacturing the first end products with an annual capacity of 1.1 million tonnes of ethylene at the Panjin site in the northern Chinese province of Liaoning.

Under a final investment decision undertaken by Phillips 66, the company has plans to convert its San Francisco Refinery in California into one of the world’s largest renewable fuels facilities. The project – Rodeo Renewed is expected to commence operations in 2024.

Pharmaceutical companies are steadily adopting advanced analytics to understand their huge data sets in order to make better business decisions with greater accuracy, efficiency and speed. PROCESS Worldwide offers an insight into the application and requirements of this unique analytical technique in the pharma sector.

Dupont has installed its Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor technology at one of the wastewater treatment plants in the Gansu province, China. The green technology that requires ~75 % less energy than conventional treatment methods will help to expand capacity and improve water quality of the Yellow River.

With fast data communication and high bandwidths, Industrial Ethernet paves the way to Industry 4.0 in the chemical, oil/gas and petrochemical industries. But what about in zone 0, 1 or 2? From A for antenna to W for WLAN: typical problems that can arise with Ethernet installations in hazardous areas and the right solution.

Vynova has recently installed a hydrogen-fired steam boiler at its Tessenderlo site in Belgium and is also planning to add another boiler by the year end. With these, the firm intends to reduce CO2 emissions by 10,000 tons per year at its site.