SK Energy will begin commercial operations for sustainable aviation fuels at its new facility in South Korea next month. The facility will make use of the advanced co-processing technology as well as bio-feedstocks such as used cooking oil and animal fat to produce SAF and other low-carbon products.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of June 2022’ from all over the world. Right from Oman developing its first waste-to-hydrogen facility to Europe starting up an e-cracking furnace experimental unit, find out all the projects making headlines here.

German utility EWE has awarded Siemens Energy with a contract to supply a 280-megawatt electrolysis system in Emden, Germany. The project is expected to provide up to 26,000 tons of green hydrogen annually for various industrial applications in the region.

Linde has plans to invest more than 2 billion dollars to develop a world-scale integrated clean hydrogen and atmospheric gases facility in Alberta in order to supply clean hydrogen to Dow’s Fort Saskatchewan Path2Zero Project in Canada.

Under the terms of the agreement, Ima Life will make a strategic investment in Rheavita as well as support the company in advancing and commercializing its breakthrough continuous freeze-drying technology for biopharmaceutical products.

Under the European IPCEI Hy2Infra wave, BP has secured funding for its 100 MW green hydrogen project located next to its Lingen Refinery in Germany. On completion, the project has the potential to supply green hydrogen to its refinery as well as industrial customers in the region.

Gail has successfully inaugurated its first green hydrogen production plant in Madhya Pradesh, India. The project implemented by Tecnimont in collaboration with Nextchem is expected to produce 4.3 tons per day of green hydrogen.

Michael Carus, Founder and Managing Director at Nova-Institute shares his views on replacing fossil-based naphtha with alternative naphtha in refineries and crackers. He also elaborates on the advantages and challenges of incorporating alternative naphtha in existing refineries and crackers.

Industrial smart sensors are in high demand across various industries and the rise of Industry 4.0 as well as the Industrial Internet of Things are the core reasons behind this market scenario. The many advantages, trends as well as the future of industrial smart sensors within the next decade are all highlighted in this article.

The UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. In this background, BP, Equinor, Shell and Total Energies have collaborated together to support this initiative.