PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of November 2024’ from all over the world. Right from BASF partnering with Exterra for commercial scale CCS project in Canada to Topsoe’s technology being selected for one of Brazil’s first SAF plants, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Europe’s largest industrial carbon capture facility was recently inaugurated at Yara’s plant in Sluiskil, the Netherlands. The inauguration took place in the presence of Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten, European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth Wopke Hoekstra, and President and CEO of Yara International, Svein Tore Holsether.

With a focus on energy, industry and advanced technology, Adnoc, XRG and Masdar have entered into agreements with some of the major German firms. The agreements have the potential to enable more than 5 billion euros of investment.

Moeve and Arcelormittal have entered into Spain’s largest energy savings certificate agreement with an aim to accelerate the decarbonization of the steel industry. The agreement is claimed to be ten times larger than the biggest transaction of its kind recorded in Spain to date.

BASF’s newly established Core Transformation Office drives the implementation of cross-unit transformation projects across all core businesses, service units and corporate center units. The program ‘Coreshift’ aims to achieve up to 20 % net cash fixed cost savings in the core by 2029, compared with the 2024 baseline.

Under a partnership between Xanadu and Mitsubishi Chemical, both the companies will work together to advance semiconductor fabrication technologies by making use of quantum computing algorithms.

WPU has selected Sulzer to provide its Pyrocon technology and engineering services for its new chemical recycling facility in the Netherlands. With a capacity to process up to 80,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste per year, the new site is located next to Vitol’s VPR refinery in the Port of Rotterdam.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has released the final investigation report on the disastrous chemical fires and toxic gas release which took place at the Bio-Lab Facility in Conyers, Georgia in 2024.

Chiyoda has partnered with Toyota to develop a water electrolysis system for a low-carbon hydrogen project in Japan. The water electrolysis system will be installed in Aichi Steel’s Chita Factory using a wind power plant owned by Eurus Energy.

Kemira and IFF have announced that their planned biobased materials manufacturing site has now been relocated from Kotka to Hanko in Finland. The new site specializes in industrial enzymes for the home and personal care, and food and beverage sectors.