PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of December 2024’ from all over the world. Right from Qatar Energy breaking ground on a 1.2-billion-dollar blue ammonia plant to the world's first full-scale carbon capture unit reaching mechanical completion, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Honeywell’s Ecofining technology has been selected by the St1 Refinery to produce sustainable aviation fuel. The Gothenburg plant is expected to produce 200,000 tons of renewable fuels annually and can utilize flexible feedstocks, including used cooking oil, animal fats, and tall oil fatty acids from paper and pulp mills.

Asahi Kasei has secured government support to expand its manufacturing capacity for cell frames and membranes of alkaline water electrolyzers for the production of green hydrogen at its plant site in Kawasaki, Japan.

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USA Bioenergy has acquired 1,600+ acres of land in East Texas, USA for its new 2.8-billion-dollar sustainable aviation fuel refinery. The advanced biorefinery has already secured a 20-year offtake agreement with Southwest Airlines.

Celanese has collaborated with Cloverdale Paint to produce sustainable paint solutions with the help of its carbon capture and utilization technology. This move is expected to promote a circular economy as well as reduce carbon emissions.

Under an agreement signed between Neste and Braskem, Neste will supply renewable and recycled feedstocks to Braskem for producing polymers and chemicals. The products will be sold primarily in South America.

New Energy Risk (NER) has been chosen by Topsoe as its insurance partner for its SOEC (solid oxide electrolyzer cells) hydrogen electrolyzer products. With this, the company aims to de-risk the development of SOEC as well as the customers’ green hydrogen and Power-to-X projects.

A groundbreaking ceremony was recently held by Henkel to establish a new adhesive manufacturing facility in China. With a hefty investment of 120 million euros, the new plant is expected to increase the firm’s production capacity of adhesive products in the country.

Neste has plans to re-evaluate its earlier investment strategy of investing into a 120 MW electrolyzer project to produce renewable hydrogen at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. The core reasons behind the withdrawal are the firm’s challenging market conditions and financial performance.