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.

Akzonobel has recently announced that all of its manufacturing locations in Latin America are now operating on 100 % renewable electricity. The move is in line with the company’s ambitions of slashing carbon emissions across its full value chain by 50 % by 2030.

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.

Yara Growth Ventures has successfully invested in Dynelectro, a firm that develops electrolysis technologies for low-cost renewable hydrogen. The move is in line with Yara’s goal of decarbonizing its fertilizer production and enabling the hydrogen economy.

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.

Under the terms of the contract, Vattenfall has begun supplying Borealis’ operations in Stenungsund with a total of 175 GWh of renewable energy per year from its hydropower plants in Sweden.

Bloom Energy has partnered with Shell to explore opportunities for innovative large-scale, renewable hydrogen energy projects. The parties aim at developing replicable, large-scale, solid oxide electrolyzer systems for hydrogen production.

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.

Linde under its subsidiary White Martins has plans to build, own and operate a second electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen in Brazil. On completion, the plant is expected to supply green hydrogen to glass manufacturer Cebrace to reduce emissions from their glass melting furnaces.

Arkema has entered into long-term renewable energy contracts with Tennessee Valley Authority, Entergy and 3Degrees. With this move, the company is expected to obtain approximately 40 % of the power needed to run its operations in the United States from renewable sources.