PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of November 2021’ from all over the world. Right from building one of the world’s lowest carbon-emitting crackers to developing a new novel methane-reducing feed additive manufacturing plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

TechnipFMC has partnered with Petronas to commercialize an innovative natural gas processing membrane technology which is capable of reducing greenhouse has emissions. The technology is claimed to be 30 % more efficient than existing gas treatment processes and can be used in offshore as well as onshore hydrocarbon production environments.

SAS, Vattenfall, Shell and LanzaTech have teamed up to explore the production of synthetic sustainable aviation fuel also known as electrofuel on a large scale in Sweden. The synthetic SAF will be produced from fossil free electricity and recovered carbon dioxide by making use of the LanzaJet ‘Alcohol to Jet’ technology.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of October 2021’ from all over the world. Right from the Rotating Olefins Cracker technology advancing the energy transition of olefin production to Ineos investing more than 2 billion dollars on green hydrogen projects in Europe, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Cadent’s HyNet North West project which includes a new hydrogen pipeline network has awarded Wood consenting, environmental assessment as well as front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts for the project. The project is expected to produce, store, distribute hydrogen, and capture as well as store carbon from the industry in the North West of England and North Wales.

Linde has started up its new hydrogen facility in Texas, USA to meet the growing demand of hydrogen in the region. The company has also entered into a long-term agreement with Phillips 66 to supply the hydrogen produced at the new plant to Phillips 66’s Sweeny Refinery in Old Ocean, Texas.

Lummus Technology has been selected by Korea Petrochemical Ind. Co. (KPIC) to provide a C4 acetylenes selective hydrogenation unit to its Onsan chemical plant in Ulsan, Republic of Korea. The new unit, which is part of the plant’s expansion plan, is expected to process 37,000 MTA of feed, leading to higher production rates of butadiene and raffinate products. The new unit will also prevent the burning of the byproduct stream resulting in lower emissions.

The unique crude oil steam-cracking technology has the ability to convert crude oil directly into ethylene, propylene and other chemical products. The successful trail marks the first industrial application of the crude oil steam-cracking technology in China and will pave the way for transforming China's petrochemical industry. The technology will also significantly shorten the production process, lower production costs and reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Haldor Topsoe and Green Fuel have signed a MOU under which both the companies will jointly work together to identify efficient and scalable technologies for green ammonia production in Iceland. Green Fuel has also secured a Letter of Intent to operate at the Bakki Eco-Industrial Park in north-east Iceland.

The new project is part of Ineos’ recent 2 billion dollar plus green hydrogen investment announcement in Europe. Under the new project, Ineos’ subsidiary Inovyn will develop a 100 MW electrolyzer at its Koln site in Germany in order to produce green hydrogen which will be used to manufacture green ammonia. The project will also develop E-Fuels through Power-to-Methanol applications at an industrial scale at the site.