Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has won a feed contract from Mexichem Fluor Japan for developing a new hydrogen fluoride production plant in Japan. The move is expected to strengthen the supply of fluorine compounds in the country.

Marubeni, Peru LNG and Osaka Gas have teamed up to carry out a Pre-Feed study for an e-methane project in Peru. Green hydrogen and CO2 will be used to produce the e-fuel.

Construction of two carbon capture units by Ørsted has begun in Denmark. The project is expected to capture and store carbon emissions from the woodchip-fired Asnæs Power Station in Kalundborg and the straw-fired unit at Avedøre Power Station in Greater Copenhagen.

Covestro has plans to invest a mid to high double-digit million-euro amount for the modernization of its production plant in Dormagen, Germany by 2025. With this, the company aims to significantly improve the plant's energy efficiency and thereby reduce CO2 emissions.

Ionway, a newly established joint venture of Umicore and Powerco, has plans to build its first cathode active material (Cam) production plant in Nysa, Poland. With this move, the joint venture aims to scale up the EU footprint in the e-mobility business and expand its annual production capacity to 160 GWh by the end of the decade.

Under a MOU signed between both the parties, KBR and ISU Chemical will work together to develop a commercial ammonia cracking project in the Republic of Korea. The project will make use of KBR’s H2Act ammonia cracking technology.

Climate change is real and there is an urgent need to reduce and eliminate harmful global greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector if we want future generations and habitat to survive on this planet. Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage is a key technology that can help today’s industries to decarbonize their operations and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

Lanxess will supply brine to Standard Lithium for industrial production of battery-grade lithium at its site in El Dorado, Arkansas, USA. Lanxess also aims at leasing a plot of land to Standard Lithium for the development of a production facility.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of August 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Fluor securing a feed contract for one of UK’s first planned commercial SAF units to Topsoe’s technology being selected for Canada’s largest renewable hydrogen project, find out all the projects making headlines here.

New Power Purchase Agreements have been signed between Air Liquide, Sasol and Mainstream Renewable Power for Sasol’s Secunda site in South Africa. Under the terms of the contracts, Mainstream Renewable Power will supply renewable power with a capacity of 97.5 MW to the site.