PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of October 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Solvay developing an electric furnace at its silica plant in France to Exxonmobil’s technology being selected for a demonstration plant in the Neom project, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Under a partnership frame agreement signed between both the parties, Metso has been selected as EV Metals’ Technical Partner for developing a Lithium Chemicals Plant in the Yanbu Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.

Under a strategic collaboration agreement between the two parties, Adnoc and MHI will work together to explore potential opportunities for building low carbon energy supply chains as well as advance carbon neutral solutions. The move is expected to speed up decarbonization in the energy industry.

The feasibility study has been awarded by Man Energy Solutions and the study is expected to investigate the full integration of Aker Carbon Capture’s standardized and modularized Just Catch 100 unit into a full power-to-fuel solution.

Thyssenkrupp Uhde will provide engineering and procurement services as well as its uhde ammonia technology license and proprietary equipment for the development of Proman’s 2200 metric tons/day ammonia plant in Topolobampo, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Dupont has introduced its first ion exchange resin – the Dupont Amberlite P2X110 for green hydrogen production. With this, the firm aims to support the trend of decarbonization.

Michelin, Ifpen and Axens have recently inaugurated what it claims to be the first industrial-scale demonstrator of a plant producing bio-based butadiene from bioethanol. The demonstrator is built at Michelin’s site in Bassens near Bordeaux in France.

Sumitomo Chemical has already begun the construction of a pilot facility in Japan to demonstrate a new environmentally-friendly process for producing propylene directly from ethanol. The pilot unit is expected to be completed by the first half of 2025.

China has delivered its first ‘Made in China’ large cruise ship and Akzo Nobel’s innovative and sustainable coatings were used for coating the vessel. The firm’s Intersmooth fouling control technology was utilized on the hull of the vessel owing to its high durability, low VOC content and excellent application properties.

Topsoe’s new ereact technology is claimed to be a groundbreaking technology for the production of low carbon hydrogen. Under the terms of the agreement, Aramco and Topsoe will develop a demonstration plant at the Shaybah Natural Gas Liquids recovery unit in Saudi Arabia.