As we move towards a climate-neutral future, great hopes are being pinned on hydrogen as a key element of the energy transition. The energy-rich molecule can be used for storage and can act as an ideal versatile chemical energy carrier. But how might the hydrogen economy of the future look like? What volumes are required and what infrastructure is suitable? This trend report provides answers to these questions.

Dow and Procter & Gamble have plans to develop a new recycling technology which mainly focuses on the conversion of hard-to-recycle plastic packaging into recycled polyethylene with near-virgin quality and a low greenhouse gas emissions footprint.

MOL Group has updated its long-term strategy and now aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 via a smart transition. The updated strategy focuses on renewable fuels, green hydrogen, biomethane and geothermal energy and the firm will spend more than 4 billion dollars on green investments.

A consortium of 15 companies including Neste have successfully concluded a joint ‘E-Fuel research project’ in which high temperature electrolysis (SOEC), carbon capture, and hydrocarbon synthesis technologies were demonstrated and production of synthetic e-fuels was also accelerated.

It dyes jeans blue, is found in PUR foam and rocket fuel and is extracted from naphtha on a scale of millions of tons: Aniline. The versatile basic chemical is set to turn green thanks to bioprocess engineering - a project in Leverkusen shows how straw can be turned into plastic

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of November 2023’ from all over the world. Right from OMV, Interzero developing Europe’s largest sorting facility for chemical recycling to inaugurating the world’s first pilot plant for green methanol in Germany, find out all the projects making headlines here.

At the recently held COP28 event, Total Energies entered into three cooperation agreements with Petrobras in Brazil, Socar in Azerbaijan and Sonangol in Angola. Under the terms of the contract, the company will supply its Ausea technology to these three firms to detect and quantify their methane emissions.

H2site has commissioned the first on-board ammonia cracking system by utilizing its integrated membrane reactor technology to produce high-purity hydrogen for onboard power generation using a PEM fuel cell.

Axens, SMS group and IFP Energies nouvelles have entered into a co-development agreement for the optimization of the Reverse Water Gas Shift technology which plays a vital role for converting CO2 to renewable or low carbon fuels and chemicals intermediates.

To meet the strong industry demand, Air Products has plans to increase the winding capacity at its LNG equipment manufacturing facility in Port Manatee, Florida, USA. With this move, the firm aims to improve its equipment delivery schedules.