Black & Veatch has secured a contract by Mitsubishi Power Americas and Magnum Development to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for a first-of-its kind advanced clean energy storage project in Delta, Utah, USA. The new green hydrogen hub is expected to convert 220+ MW of renewable energy daily to 100 metric tons of green hydrogen which will be stored in two salt caverns.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of April 2022’ from all over the world. Right from Southeast Asia’s first green e-methanol plant to the world’s largest green hydrogen hub in the USA, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Sasol ecoft and Uniper have plans to build a large-scale sustainable aviation fuel production facility in Långsele, Sollefteå under the joint venture ‘Sky Fuel H2’. With this project, the companies aim to produce sustainable aviation fuel by making use of green hydrogen and carbon from biomass.

Nel will be launched the world’s first fully automated electrolyzer production facility at Herøya, Norway. With a current production capacity of 500 MW which can be further increased to 2 GW, the plant is a vital project for the company which aims to achieve 100 % green renewable hydrogen consumption for the world’s industrial and mobility sectors.

Tianjin, China's fourth largest city relies more and more on the petrochemical industry for its economic development. The city government and Sinopec, China's largest state-owned chemical company have signed a new framework agreement according to which an additional 70 billion yuan (around 10.3 billion dollars) will be invested in key projects in Tianjin.

Air Products has plans to construct a 10 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen in Casa Grande, Arizona. The produced hydrogen will then be supplied to the mobility market in California as well as other places that require zero-carbon hydrogen.

Oil and gas company BP announced that it intends to invest up to $ 22.5 billion in the UK’s energy system by the end of 2030. The group wants to continue investing in North Sea oil and gas, while driving down operational emissions. BP is also in action on a range of lower carbon energy investments in the UK.

Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), CO2 Value Europe (CVE) and nova-Institute have recently published a study which showcases the chemical industry’s CO2 reduction potential via carbon capture and utilization (CCU).

Under a ten-year offtake agreement signed between both the parties, Clean Planet Energy will supply naphtha, produced by processing 20,000 tons of waste plastics, to BP from its Teesside facility in the UK initially. Later on, BP will have the right to offtake from its future plants globally. The circular naphtha can be utilized as feedstock into circular plastics value chains.

Siemens Energy has plans to carry out industrial-scale production of hydrogen electrolyzers in Berlin, Germany in order to boost the concept of green hydrogen. With an investment of more than 30 million dollars, the site is expected to commence production in 2023.