MOL Group has updated its long-term strategy and now aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 via a smart transition. The updated strategy focuses on renewable fuels, green hydrogen, biomethane and geothermal energy and the firm will spend more than 4 billion dollars on green investments.

Located in Iceland, Climeworks’ direct air capture and storage plant – mammoth is claimed to be the world’s largest direct air capture plant. With a nameplate capture capacity of up to 36,000 tons of CO₂ per year, the plant is modular is design.

Bunge and Chevron’s joint venture Bunge Chevron Ag Renewables has received the final investment decision approval to build a new oilseed processing plant in Louisiana, USA. The plant will process soybeans as well as softseeds.

Using a decanter to produce biofuel from organic waste: Organic waste goes into the air - at least that is Bisviridi's vision. The subsidiary of the British biogas specialist Biotech4 wants to convert oil and fat waste into crude oil for biofuels. Process engineering plays a decisive role in this...

It is a mammoth undertaking: Most nations want to become climate-neutral by 2050 – and with them the companies in the chemical industry. Because on the one hand it produces energy-intensively, and on the other it cannot do without carbon, the chemical industry is having a particularly hard time decarbonizing. But this only spurs the industry's researchers and engineers on even more.

Cepsa and Evos will work together to store green methanol produced by Cepsa at Evos’ storage facilities in Algeciras, Spain and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In addition to this, green ammonia will also be stored in Algeciras, Spain.

Guangxi Hongkun Biomass has selected Topsoe’s Hydroflex technology for producing sustainable aviation fuel at its plant in the Qinzhou Port Area Free Trade Pilot Zone of Guangxi, China. The project is expected to process 300,000 tons of feedstock annually.

Air Liquide and Sasol have entered into new power purchase agreements with Enel Green Power RSA. Under the terms of the agreement, Enel Green Power RSA will supply an additional capacity of 110 MW of renewable power to Sasol’s Secunda site in South Africa.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of April 2024’ from all over the world. Right from the MOL Group inaugurating one of the largest green hydrogen plants in Europe to BASF, Sabic and Linde starting up the world’s first large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnace, find out all the projects making headlines here.

A joint study will be carried out between Lummus Technology and Braskem to demonstrate Lummus’ SRT-e electric cracking heater. With this, both the parties aim to decarbonize one of Braskem’s sites in Brazil.