Titan’s Oval Gear flow meters have played a vital role in converting bio waste into sustainable biofuels for Green Fuels’ biodiesel plants. The chemically resistant flow meters when combined with the Namur switch were suitable for precise batch dosing at the firm’s plants and can also be used across a wide range of applications. The switch ensures that the flow meters deliver highly accurate flow measurement in explosive atmospheres.

Mitsui and GS Energy have plans to join the low carbon blue ammonia project in Ruwais, UAE as equity partners wherein they will also supply large volumes of blue ammonia to the energy and industrial sectors in Japan and Korea in order to achieve decarbonization of these sectors. The partnerships will strengthen Abu Dhabi’s position as a leader in low-carbon fuels and clean hydrogen economy.

Incitec Pivot and Fortescue Future Industries have collaborated to undertake a feasibility study for producing green hydrogen on an industrial-scale at the company’s existing Gibson Island fertilizer manufacturing facility in Australia. The new project aims to produce around 50,000 tons of renewable hydrogen annually which will then be converted into green ammonia for Australian and export markets.

Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s Envinox technology has been installed at the specialty chemicals company Arxada in Switzerland. The unique technology is expected to reduce the chemical firm’s annual emissions of laughing gas by at least 98 %, thus saving up to 600,000 tons of CO2-equivalents annually.

Chevron’s mammoth budget for next year includes spending 12.6 billion dollars in upstream operations including 6.4 billion dollars for its U.S. upstream operations and another 6.2 billion dollars for international operations. Another 2.3 billion dollars will be spent on its domestic and global downstream operations.

Under a MOU signed between Technip Energies and Svante, both the companies will work together to further develop Svante’s solid sorbent carbon capture technology and also explore opportunities for developing industrial scale carbon capture projects in Europe, Middle-East and Africa and Russian Federation markets where the technology would be used.

Under a Letter of Intent signed between Lummus Technology and Phigenesis, the Lummus new hope plastics pyrolysis technology will be used by Phigenesis in its new chemical recycling facility which is expected to have a capacity of 150,000 tons per annum. With the help of this technology, Phigenesis will recycle waste plastics to manufacture petrochemical feedstock materials. The project will significantly increase the current chemical recycling capacity in Europe.

Saudi Arabia has announced that it intends to become carbon neutral by 2060 and in this background Sabic, the country’s major petrochemicals company has developed a carbon neutrality strategy under which it plans to support its global projects by supplying innovative technologies to achieve this goal.

Ineos Styrolution has decided to go ahead and invest in Europe’s first polystyrene advanced recycling pilot plant in Swindon, UK. Partnering with Recycling Technologies, the company is all set to establish the project by 2022 which will be based on Recycling Technologies’ fluidised bed reactor technology.

The Vogel Pharmaceutical Engineering International Forum (VPEIF) 2021 was successfully held on October 20-21 in Taizhou, China Medical City, China. Focusing on the latest trends in global pharmaceutical engineering, R&D, production, and quality management, the show comprised of one main session and five parallel sessions which were led by industrial experts and enterprises in the region.