Linde has begun the supply of clean hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide to the global chemical and specialty materials company Celanese. Linde will be supplying carbon dioxide which has been captured from its carbon monoxide and hydrogen production facility at Clear Lake, Texas, USA.

Chiyoda Corporation has entered into a basic agreement with Toyota to jointly develop a large-scale electrolysis system. The partnership aims at contributing to the government targets which focuses on the introduction of electrolysis equipment both in Japan and overseas as part of the Basic Strategy on Hydrogen formulated by the government.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2024’ from all over the world. Right from Chevron Lummus Global commissioning the world’s largest all-hydroprocessing white oil unit to Lanzajet inaugurating the world’s first ethanol to SAF production facility, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Plug Power has begun the production of liquid green hydrogen at its Georgia plant in the USA. The company claims that this is the largest electrolytic liquid hydrogen production plant and largest PEM electrolyzer deployment operating in the U.S.

BASF process catalysts has collaborated with Envision Energy to further optimize the process of producing e-methanol from green hydrogen and CO2 via an advanced, dynamic process design. The partners aim to demonstrate the viability of the advanced process design next year.

Newcleo has collaborated with Maire’s subsidiaries Nextchem Tech and Tecnimont to study the application of Gen-IV nuclear technologies for the production of hydrogen and sustainable chemicals production.

Maire has recently entered into an agreement to acquire 80 % of Hydep and 100 % of Dragoni Group, both are well-known engineering services companies in the mechanical and electrochemical sectors.

With an annual production capacity of 5,000 tons, Arlanxeo has plans to develop a new hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber plant in Changzhou, China. The unit is expected to begin operations in the third quarter of 2025.

The world-scale carbon dioxide liquefaction plant will be built on-site next to Yara’s existing ammonia plant in Sluiskil, the Netherlands. The project is a key part of Yara’s clean ammonia initiative, in which 800,000 tons of CO2 will be captured, liquefied, loaded onto special ships every year and then subsequently locked away permanently below the seabed off the coast of western Norway.

Bechtel has announced the sustained pilot operations of its proprietary Low Energy Ejector Desalination System (Leeds) which is capable of recovering more than 50 % of treated water.