Petrofac has been selected as Owner’s Engineer for Transitional Energy Group’s Gente Grande Green Ammonia Project in Chile. The project is expected to produce more than 1.3 million tonnes of green ammonia every year.

BASF has recently introduced two new hydrogenation catalysts to its E 15x series – the sulfur-resistant E 15x S catalyst and the novel low-density E 15x L catalyst family. The E 15x S family optimizes the processing of contaminated feedstocks while the E 15x L catalyst family minimizes precious metal loading.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of August 2022’ from all over the world. Right from Wood securing a 100 million dollar+ contract for a unique olefin complex in Europe to Eurotecnica winning a contract for the world’s largest melamine plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Green ammonia is gradually becoming popular within the industry due to its outstanding benefits such as the production of zero-carbon fertilizers and fuel. It is also an excellent energy storage medium and carrier of hydrogen which makes it more attractive to industry players. Many big-ticket projects with a dedicated focus on producing green ammonia have been announced worldwide in recent years and with time it’s only going to increase as more and more industrial firms join the net-zero objective.

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.

In the land of the rising sun, researchers have developed a new technology for small-scale ammonia production: The compact ammonia synthesis systems can enable smaller countries to establish their own decentralized NH3 production and could play an important role in the decarbonization of the industry. As so often, a sophisticated catalyst is the enabler.

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.

At this year’s Achema trade show which is claimed to be the world's leading trade show for the process industry, more than 2,200 exhibitors from over 50 countries along with 70,000 plus participants from 127 nations were present at the event which was held from August 22 – 26, 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany.

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.

Time is running out! We have to get our greenhouse emissions under control and eliminate it completely before it’s too late. The effects of climate change are already beginning to appear and, in this background, the most carbon-intensive sectors have undertaken sustainable business strategies to achieve their net zero goals but is it going to be enough? PROCESS Worldwide lists down four progressive solutions that will help industries to decarbonize their operations.