Uniper has collaborated with the Port of Rotterdam Authority to develop green hydrogen production at Maasvlakte in the Netherlands. The move has been carried out based on the findings of a recent feasibility study and the growing demand for sustainable hydrogen from the Rotterdam petrochemical industry.

Promisces, an European project aims at preventing the circulation of polluting organic compounds in the environment by developing new technological solutions in order to support Europe’s ‘zero pollution’ and ‘circular economy’ strategy. A 14-million-dollar contract has been signed between the project partners and the European Commission, thus making Promisces an active part of the European Green Deal.

A MOU has been signed by the applied research institutes TNO, Dechema and Vito to set up a public-private platform on industrial carbon-neutrality which will assist the transition to industrial carbon-neutrality in the trilateral region (The Netherlands-Germany-Belgium). The platform aims to develop international collaboration between stakeholders from industry, governments, regulators, infrastructure asset owners and operators to achieve the objective.

There’s a new innovative and revolutionary microfluidic system which allows the mixing and extracting operations to be carried out using a mini glass chip which was otherwise conventionally performed with large-scale equipment. This microfluidic process boasts of combining numerous microfluidic chips simultaneously, thus, creating a ‘desktop chemical plant.’ Now, NTHU and Daicel have plans to integrate this microfluidic system into the chemical manufacturing industry.

With an annual production capacity of 450 thousand tons, the new polypropylene production plant will be built within the Ceyhan Industrial Zone in Ceyhan, Turkey. The 1.7-billion-dollar investment is claimed to be one of the private-sector’s largest industrial investments in the country and expected to triple the nation’s annual polypropylene production capacity.

Scientists have validated Ørsted’s targets for reaching net-zero emissions across its full value chain by 2040 which are consistent with limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Ørsted is the first and only energy company in the world to receive this new net-zero validation by the Science Based Targets initiative carried out by scientists.

Siemens Energy and Toray will jointly promote the development of the largest multi megawatt class PEM electrolysis in Japan under the Green Innovation Funding Program arranged by the Japanese Government. Toray’s new membrane technology will be used in the process. The companies aim to advance the technologies used in the production of green hydrogen by making use of renewable energy sources.

The University of Bayreuth under its H₂ Giga project focuses on the research, development, and industrial production of high-performance, low-cost electrolyzers to meet Germany's demand for green hydrogen. One of the seven H₂ Giga projects called ‘HTs: HTEL Stacks – Ready for Gigawatt’ has received funding of more than 11,00,000 dollars. Chair of Ceramic Materials Engineering at the University of Bayreuth is responsible for this collaborative project.

Exxon Mobil has called for engineering, procurement and construction contract bids with an aim to capture up to 1 million metric tons of CO2 annually at its LaBarge, Wyoming facility in the USA. The proposed 400-million-dollar expansion project is expected to commence operations by 2025.

Under the three agreements signed between BP, Adnoc and Masdar, the companies jointly aim to develop low carbon hydrogen hubs and decarbonized air corridors between the UK and UAE. BP and Adnoc also have plans to continue decarbonizing existing oil and gas operations by using methane detection, CCUS and pioneering digital technologies.