OMV has successfully completed the turnaround of its petrochemical unit at the OMV Schwechat Refinery in Austria. Inspection, repair work and around 500,000 bolts were replaced on the equipment in the petrochemical unit of the refinery.

With the rise of investments in clean energy infrastructure, Wood has been awarded a contract to carry out feed studies for an extensive network of onshore low carbon pipelines in North America.

Sumitomo and Rio Tinto have plans to develop a hydrogen pilot plant at Rio Tinto’s Yarwun alumina refinery in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia in order to conduct the world’s first trial of lower-carbon alumina refining. The project will also include the retrofitting of processing equipment at the refinery.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of July 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Petrofac securing a 700-million-dollar EPC contract to Cepsa developing the world’s first production plant for renewable isopropanol, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Herding Filtertechnik’s latest filter element Herding Beta can be used at high operating temperatures and incorporates all the well-proven properties of the classic Sinter-Plate Filter.

Samson Pfeiffer offers smart valves that can be used for the purpose of hydrogen production. The firm supplies its valves to companies that focus on the development of electrolysis plants.

BASF has successfully completed the carve-out of its mobile emissions catalysts and precious metal services businesses and established the BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions entity in the USA.

Technip Energies has been selected by Hycc to develop Djewels, a green hydrogen project in the Netherlands. Mcphy’s innovative ‘Augmented Mclyzer’ technology will also be used for the project to produce up to 3,000 tons of green hydrogen annually from renewable power and water.

The consortium which includes seven companies Itochu Corporation, Nippon Steel Corporation, Taiheiyo Cement Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Itochu Oil Exploration Co., Inpex Corporation, and Taisei Corporation will conduct the joint study under the Tohoku Region West Coast CCS initiative.

The Hope project aims to build an offshore hydrogen production plant with a capacity to produce up to four tons a day of green hydrogen. Plug Power will be designing and delivering a 10 MW PEM electrolyzer system for this project which has received a 21.8-million-dollar grant from the European Commission.