Air Products Membrane Solutions has plans to invest 10 million dollars for expanding its membrane production capacity at its St. Louis, Missouri facility in the USA. The move will create additional highly-skilled job opportunities as well as enable the firm to better support its customers.

Under a global licensing agreement signed between Topsoe and Steeper, both the parties will work together to introduce a complete waste-to-fuel solution. Steeper’s proprietary Hydrofaction technology and Topsoe’s unique technologies in renewable fuels and hydrogen production will be used for the development of the solution.

Under a MOU signed between both the parties, CF Industries and Lotte Chemical will jointly explore the production of clean ammonia in the U.S. along with long-term clean ammonia offtake into South Korea.

Under the ‘Plasco2 project’, Evonik along with its three partners aim to turn the greenhouse gas CO2 into a raw material which can then be used for the production of C4 chemicals. The partners are working together to extract synthesis gas from CO2 and hydrogen by means of a plasma reactor using a newly developed process.

In line with the goals of the European Green Deal, Ineos Olefins Belgium has plans to create the region’s most eco-friendly and sustainable cracker project ever at a whooping cost of 3+ billion euros. The landmark ‘Project One’ will be located at the port of Antwerp in Belgium and will make use of the latest technologies to produce ethylene with the lowest carbon footprint in all of Europe.

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Under an agreement between Cinea, Perstorp, and Uniper, ‘Project Air’ has been granted the hefty amount with an aim to decarbonize the European chemical industry. The CCU project will convert CO2, residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biomethane which will then be used for large-scale production of sustainable methanol.

Under a MOU, Adnoc together with the Government of North Rhine-Westphalia and Currenta will explore opportunities for the development of a low-carbon ammonia value chain in Germany. The aim of the contract is to produce and transport low-carbon ammonia as a fuel in energy generation.

Air Liquide’s autothermal reforming technology has been chosen by Inpex Corporation for Japan’s first demonstration project which aims to produce low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia. Once combined with carbon capture technology, autothermal reforming can achieve higher energy efficiency, lower investments and a production process which can assist in capturing up to 99 % of carbon in integrated industrial units.

Cepsa has entered into an agreement with the Spanish water utility company Arcgisa to use recycled water from wastewater treatment plants to produce green hydrogen at its San Roque Energy Park in Spain. The project is expected to reduce the consumption of global drinkable water by 5 %.