Arkema has plans to double its Sartomer photocure resins capacity at its Nansha plant in China owing to the rising demand in Asia for innovative solutions in electronics and renewable energies.

With the completion of the demonstration of the world’s highest-current water electrolyzer, Hydrogen Optimized has advanced its large-scale green hydrogen technology – the Ruggedcell unipolar electrolyzer. The 22-million-dollar Ruggedcell high-current electrolyzer development program was launched by Hydrogen Optimized with an aim to develop the world’s largest green hydrogen production systems.

Haldor Topsoe and Green Fuel have signed a MOU under which both the companies will jointly work together to identify efficient and scalable technologies for green ammonia production in Iceland. Green Fuel has also secured a Letter of Intent to operate at the Bakki Eco-Industrial Park in north-east Iceland.

BASF is all set to create its new subsidiary for renewable energy activities next year. The new business aims at supplying BASF’s sites in Europe with electricity from renewable energies and will also act as a global consulting firm for its Group companies in the field of renewable energies.

The Idcyclib project (Innovation platform of a green, detectable and directly recyclable lithium-ion battery) is the joint project of 12 partners from industry and research who have partnered together to make a sustainable and industry-ready concept for battery cell production, recycling and reprocessing transferable.

Alfa Laval’s new CM Connect is a subscription-based condition monitor and cloud gateway which enables plant operators to access data of rotating equipment on processing lines from a remote location. The solution proves useful for the hygienic processing industries.

The leading trade fair for the process industry is scheduled to take place from August 22 to 26, 2022, at the Frankfurt exhibition center. Originally, Achema was scheduled from April 4 to 8, 2022. Given the increasing uncertainty caused by the new Corona variant, those responsible — after intensive discussion with the community and the Achema Committee — have decided to do so.

The new project is part of Ineos’ recent 2 billion dollar plus green hydrogen investment announcement in Europe. Under the new project, Ineos’ subsidiary Inovyn will develop a 100 MW electrolyzer at its Koln site in Germany in order to produce green hydrogen which will be used to manufacture green ammonia. The project will also develop E-Fuels through Power-to-Methanol applications at an industrial scale at the site.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of October 2021’ from all over the world. Right from the Rotating Olefins Cracker technology advancing the energy transition of olefin production to Ineos investing more than 2 billion dollars on green hydrogen projects in Europe, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Enexor BioEnergy has been chosen by Plug and Play to join its Energy and Sustainability Accelerator which aims at reducing carbon emissions. Under this new role, Enexor BioEnergy will use its Bio-CHP system, which converts organic, plastic or biomass waste into renewable power and thermal energy, to launch renewable energy pilots across Asia.