Indian Oil Corporation’s 10 TPD bio-ethanol project will be based on the company’s own technology developed by its R&D team and Nuberg EPC will be responsible for the establishment of the bio-ethanol plant project in Panipat, Haryana. The project will produce ethanol for fuel blending, a move that is in line with the Government of India’s Ethanol Blending Fuel vision.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you a snapshot of some of the most revolutionary technologies of this year. From major breakthrough technologies in steam methane reforming to solutions analyzing the composition of gas treating agents in real time, find out all the latest innovations making news here.

Saint-Gobain has plans to take over Rockwool India from the Alghanim group. The soon to be acquired firm offers numerous insulation products for thermal, acoustic and fire safety applications as well as has two manufacturing facilities in India with a total capacity of around 50,000 tons. With this move, the company plans to enter into the country’s stone wool insulation market.

Under a MOU signed between Shell and RWE Generation, both the companies will work together to advance projects that focus on production, use and distribution of green hydrogen. Apart from this, they will also look at other sustainable options such as CCS and blue hydrogen to decarbonise RWE’s gas and biomass-fired power plants in northwest Europe.

Perstorp has acquired GEO’s Di-Methylolpropionic Acid (DMPA) business with an aim to further strengthen its sustainable resins and coatings business. With this move, GEO will continue to produce DMPA exclusively for Perstorp in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA.

The newly introduced minicon series of plug connectors by R. Stahl offers protection against electrical equipment in hazardous areas and its modular structure can be configured in a number of ways for explosion-protected power supply, bus and Profinet networking.

Orlen Południe has started up the green propylene glycol production unit at its biorefinery complex in Trzebinia, Poland. The unit has a capacity of 30,000 tons a year and the complex will also include Poland’s first hydrogen hub.

Danish biotech company Biosyntia and the German Wacker Group have announced the signing of a contract to develop a large-scale production process for fermentation-based biotin. The long-term partnership aims to make fermentation-based biotin available for the full range of relevant applications as a sustainable, non-chemical, European-sourced alternative.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Saudi Aramco have mutually called off the 15-billion-dollar deal under which Saudi Aramco would acquire a 20% stake in the company’s oil-chemicals (O2C) business. The move has been undertaken in the background of RIL’s evolving nature of the business i.e. the company unveiled plans for its new energy & materials businesses under which the firm intends to develop the Dhirubhai Ambani Green Energy Giga Complex at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India, which is a major part of the its oil-to-chemicals (O2C) assets. Now, RIL and Saudi Aramco will re-evaluate the proposed investment in the O2C business.

Geothermal power plants produce superheated brine, which is full of lithium and other minerals. Berkeley Lab scientists now assess the technology landscape for developing a domestic source of lithium.