With the development of the propane dehydrogenation project in Pakistan to establishing large-scale green hydrogen production plants across the globe, PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the most recent engineering projects of the week.

Everything metallic corrodes. The oil and gas industry spends approximately 1.14 billion euros (1.37 billion dollars) a year trying to prevent the damage this causes. How to reduce the costs of corrosion by using environmentally benign corrosion inhibitor products? Dr. Nihal Obeyesekere, Clariant's Head of Global Innovation Integrity Management for Business Unit Oil and Mining Services, has won the 2021 NACE Fellow Honor from the Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP).

Chevron Phillips Chemical’s new world-scale unit has broken ground in Old Ocean, Texas, USA. The 266 KTA plant will make use of the company’s proprietary on-purpose 1-hexene technology to produce exceptional purity comonomer grade 1-hexene from ethylene in order to expand its alpha olefins business.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the most recent plant engineering projects from all over the world. Right from Front-End Engineering Design (Feed) contracts to plant revamp projects, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Wood has recently signed a three-year engineering framework agreement with NEL Hydrogen. Under the terms of the contract, both the companies will work together to develop large-scale green hydrogen production plants across the globe.

Polystyreneloop Cooperative has established a new recycling plant in Terneuzen, the Netherlands. The facility is expected to launch on June 16, 2021 and will have the capacity to recycle 3,300 metric tons of polystyrene foam demolition waste per year.

With the help of special bacteria and an innovative process concept, BASF and Lanzatech have been able to produce n-octanol at laboratory scale from carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The combination of Lanzatech’s gas fermentation technology into BASF’s Verbund will help the firms to move into the direction of a carbon-neutral circular economy.

Bilfinger has entered into a three-year partnership with a customer from the pharmaceutical industry. Under the terms of the deal, Bilfinger will optimize the asset management, including maintenance and modifications for production equipment which process human plasma for the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals.

Under the Circular Plastics Fund, Dow, Lyondell Basell, and Nova Chemicals have teamed up to accelerate investment in plastics recycling infrastructure. The Fund invites businesses across the plastics value chain to join in advancing the recovery and recycling of plastics in the U.S. and Canada.

Under the Larsen and Lam Climate Initiative, Omni CT’s unique ‘Waste to Hydrogen Product’ technology will be used to tackle the issues of climate change. 35 million dollars will be invested by this Initiative for developing Omni CT’s first commercial production plant in California, USA which will produce negative carbon hydrogen.