Repsol has plans to invest 10.4 million dollars for the electrolyzer at the Petronor Refinery in Spain which will produce renewable hydrogen. Low and zero carbon footprint products will be manufactured by the firm with the use of this renewable hydrogen. The company aims to decarbonize its processes at all its industrial complexes.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of September 2021’ from all over the world. Right from building the world’s largest epichlorohydrin unit to investing 360 million dollars for establishing an API manufacturing unit, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Renewable Energy Group (REG) has decided to shut down its 35 million gallon per year nameplate capacity plant located in Houston, USA in November 2021. The reason behind this is its existing lease agreement as well as lack of multi-feedstock processing capability for delivering clean fuels.

With an annual production capacity of 450 thousand tons, the new polypropylene production plant will be built within the Ceyhan Industrial Zone in Ceyhan, Turkey. The 1.7-billion-dollar investment is claimed to be one of the private-sector’s largest industrial investments in the country and expected to triple the nation’s annual polypropylene production capacity.

Scientists have validated Ørsted’s targets for reaching net-zero emissions across its full value chain by 2040 which are consistent with limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Ørsted is the first and only energy company in the world to receive this new net-zero validation by the Science Based Targets initiative carried out by scientists.

Haldor Topsoe’s demo plant will utilize its electrified steam methane reforming technology (eSMR) for producing sustainable methanol from biogas at a competitive cost as compared to other non-fossil fuels. Located at Aarhus University’s research facility in Foulum, Denmark, the unit is expected to have an annual capacity of 10,000l of CO2-neutral methanol from biogas.

Sasol will be leading a feasibility study to explore the potential of the Boegoebaai project in South Africa as an export hub for green hydrogen and ammonia. The study which is expected to be concluded in two years will determine the project’s next move.

Arbor Gas has selected Topsoe’s Tigas technology for producing renewable gasoline at a new facility in the Gulf Coast region (USA). The facility is expected to produce 1,000 barrels per day of renewable gasoline and will be operational by 2024.

Phillips 66 and Plug Power have entered into a MOU under which both the companies will work towards scaling low-carbon hydrogen in the industrial and mobility sectors and developing hydrogen-related infrastructure. The company is currently establishing green hydrogen production facilities in the USA in order to supply 500 tons per day of liquid green hydrogen by 2025.

Clariant has completed the construction of its plant in Podari, Romania. Expected to produce ~50,000 tons of cellulosic ethanol per annum, the unit is claimed to be the first full-scale commercial sunliquid unit for the production of cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues.