Developed by Technip Energies and Clariant Catalysts, the enhanced annular reforming tube for hydrogen (Earth) technology is a recuperative reforming technology which helps to lower CO2 emissions and produce energy efficient hydrogen. In an interview with PROCESS Worldwide, Stefan Gebert, Product Manager, Clariant Catalysts as well as Stéphane Walspurger, Product Development & New Technologies Manager, Technip Energies jointly explain this technology along with its numerous advantages.

Anellotech has demonstrated its new direct route to light olefins and BTX from conversion of mixed plastic waste. The firm’s Plas-Tcat catalytic pyrolysis technology was used for the demonstration which was carried out in a 0.5 tpd pilot plant.

Gevo has broken ground for the development of its first commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility in South Dakota, USA. The project - Net-Zero 1 will produce low-carbon SAF and construction is expected to begin in 2023.

BASF, Sabic and Linde have begun construction work on the world’s first demo plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracker furnaces in Ludwigshafen, Germany. With this project, the consortium aims to reduce CO2 emissions in the chemical industry by at least 90 % as compared to other technologies of today.

A team of researchers at University of Illinois Chicago has discovered a way to convert 100 % of carbon dioxide captured from industrial exhaust into ethylene, a key building block for plastic products.

Claimed to be the world’s largest reservation of electrolyzer capacity, Topsoe and First Ammonia have entered into a deal to begin the global market for green ammonia. Under this deal, Topsoe will provide an initial 500 MW of solid oxide electrolyzer cell units, which is scalable to 5 GW, to First Ammonia’s green ammonia plants across the globe.

The chemical company Yara along with Northern Lights, a joint venture firm of Shell, Equinor and Total Energies have entered into an agreement to transport CO2 captured from Yara Sluiskil, an ammonia and fertilizer plant in the Netherlands, and permanently store it under the seabed off the coast of Norway.

Graforce’s methane electrolysis technology (plasmalysis) makes use of LNG or LPG to produce clean-burning hydrogen and solid, high-purity carbon. The innovative technology is expected to help the EU meet its decarbonization targets.

Under the terms of the contract, Wood will provide the full engineering scope for developing a world-class mineral processing plant as well as offer detailed engineering and procurement assistance services to establish a new methanol-to-olefin based gas-chemical complex in Uzbekistan.

Engineering consortium Petrofac has received notification of a provisional award for an engineering, procurement and construction contract with Sonatrach for the Tinrhert EPC2 Development Project in Algeria. The contract is valued at approximately 300 million dollars, with Petrofac’s share around 200 million dollars.