Hydrocarbon producers face mounting pressure to become climate resilient, reduce carbon emissions, and focus on revenue streams from renewables. To alleviate this pressure, power generation organizations need to embrace renewable alternatives, and while some companies have become early adopters, many operators are looking at substantial changes to their business models to accommodate the transition.

Solvolysis and pyrolysis are two established technologies for chemical recycling. Both of these technologies involve demanding tasks for the mixing technology. This article summarizes the practical approaches to address these challenges — from lab, through piloting and demonstration scale, before building a commercial reactor or plant system.

KBR has secured a contract from Hyundai Engineering Company to supply proprietary equipment for the first modular plant for its leading advanced plastics recycling technology Hydro-PRT. The new unit will be installed at LG Chem's Chronos Project in Dangjin, South Korea.

Graforce has launched a new technology called methane electrolysis (plasmalysis) which is capable of converting LNG into CO2-free hydrogen. This technology only requires one-fifth the energy as compared to water electrolysis to produce the same amount of hydrogen.

Occidental’s first large-scale Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant in Texas, USA will be using Siemens Energy compressors to capture up to 500,000 metric tons of CO2 annually. Occidental’s subsidiary 1PointFive will be developing the project.

Strategic Biofuels has selected Johnson Matthey (JM) and BP’s joint technology for its Louisiana Green Fuels project (LGF) in Louisiana, USA. The project aims to convert 1 million tons of forestry waste feedstock into renewable diesel and is expected to produce 31.8 million gallons of biofuels annually.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of March 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Lyondell Basell starting up the world’s largest PO, TBA facility to Indian Oil developing a mega petrochemical complex, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The separation of liquid phases is the supreme discipline for centrifuges. Continuous processes and modular concepts bring more efficiency to extraction and separation and also give digitalization a boost.

Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, Chimei and Mitsubishi Corporation have come together to develop a unique renewable plastics supply chain which will make use of bio-based hydrocarbons (Neste Re) for the production of styrene monomer (bio-SM), and its mass balanced renewable plastics derivatives including acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (bio-ABS) for the production of renewable plastics.

BP Trinidad and Tobago has successfully begun gas production at its Cassia C platform which is expected to produce about 200-300 million standard cubic feet of gas daily. The project will enable the firm to produce low pressure gas resources from the Greater Cassia Area.