Exxonmobil’s advanced fluid bed Methanol-to-Gasoline technology has been chosen by Aramco for the development of a synthetic fuel demonstration plant in Neom’s Hydrogen Innovation and Development Center in Saudi Arabia.

The overall global market for industrial valves is expected to rise in the coming years. Valve manufacturers have introduced various kinds of valves for diverse applications and industries this year. PROCESS Worldwide highlights some of the latest solutions in this space.

H2 Energy Esbjerg has awarded ABB with a contract to provide electrical engineering support for its green hydrogen production facility in Denmark. The new 1 GW facility is expected to produce 90,000 tons of green hydrogen per year.

Allied Green Ammonia has chosen Topsoe’s green ammonia technology for its ammonia plant in Gove, Australia. With a production capacity of 2,500 metric tons per day, the unit is expected to start producing green ammonia in 2028.

Galp has awarded engineering, procurement services and construction management contracts to Technip Energies for an advanced biofuels unit and a green hydrogen unit for its Sines refinery in Portugal.

Under a commercial agreement signed between the two firms, Yara International will lower its annual CO2-emissions by 800,000 tons from ammonia production at its Sluiskil site in the Netherlands. The CO2 will then be liquefied and shipped by Northern Lights to permanent storage on the Norwegian continental shelf under the seabed.

Kellas Midstream has begun Feed work on the H2northeast hydrogen project in Teesside, USA. For the project, the firm has partnered with Johnson Matthey as well as Worley and Johnson Matthey’s LCH technology will be used to produce low carbon hydrogen at the site.

Repsol has started up its 2.5 MW electrolyzer at its Petronor industrial center in Biscay, Spain which is expected to produce 350 tons per year of renewable hydrogen for industrial use.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of October 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Solvay developing an electric furnace at its silica plant in France to Exxonmobil’s technology being selected for a demonstration plant in the Neom project, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Sulzer Chemtech has plans to launch a portfolio of licensing technologies which will help in carbon-neutral polymer recycling. The move is in line with the growing demand for a circular economy of plastics.