Sumitomo and Rio Tinto have plans to develop a hydrogen pilot plant at Rio Tinto’s Yarwun alumina refinery in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia in order to conduct the world’s first trial of lower-carbon alumina refining. The project will also include the retrofitting of processing equipment at the refinery.

Adnoc, John Cockerill Hydrogen and Strata Manufacturing have entered into an agreement to produce electrolyzers in the UAE which can be used locally as well as exported across the globe. With this deal, the Arab nation intends to boost its hydrogen economy.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of June 2023’ from all over the world. Right from Indorama Ventures developing the world’s first PET biorecycling plant to Sasa Polyester Sanayi establishing the world’s largest PDH unit in Turkey, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The US-based company Wastefuel aims to use proven, scalable technologies to convert bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower carbon fuels, such as bio-methanol. With this mega investment, BP has expanded its investment in bioenergy.

Borealis has successfully completed the sale of its nitrogen business to Agrofert for 810 million euros. With this move, the Czech-based company will have access to Borealis’ production assets in Europe which will help the firm to strengthen its existing capabilities in the fertilizers and technical nitrogen business in the region.

The long-term agreement will form a part of Ørsted’s Mockingbird Solar Center project in Lamar County, Texas, USA which is expected to produce clean energy to power roughly 80,000 homes.

The Hope project aims to build an offshore hydrogen production plant with a capacity to produce up to four tons a day of green hydrogen. Plug Power will be designing and delivering a 10 MW PEM electrolyzer system for this project which has received a 21.8-million-dollar grant from the European Commission.

The green ammonia project will be built in Oman and is expected to have a capacity of 1.2 million tonnes annually. The produced green ammonia will then be transported to Korea.

Sulzer has started-up the world’s largest facility for styrene extraction from pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) derived from naphtha cracking. The plant makes use of Sulzer Chemtech’s proprietary GT-Styrene licensed technology to produce 100’000 tonnes of styrene annually.

HIF Global has chosen Johnson Matthey and Honeywell to conduct preliminary engineering for developing its first SAF facility in the USA. On completion, the facility is expected to produce 11,000 barrels per day of e-SAF.