PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of January 2023’ from all over the world. Right from inaugurating one of the world’s largest plants for krypton, xenon production to developing the world's largest low-carbon hydrogen facility, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The new world-scale project will be integrated with Aramco and Total’s existing Satorp refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. It will assist the refinery to convert refinery off-gases, naphtha, ethane and natural gasoline into higher value chemicals.

Chemical, pharmaceutical and food producers, colleges and universities all over the world use them: Wet-milling technology has been revolutionized by WAB with the development of its horizontal agitator bead mills. At this year’s Achema, the resourceful Swiss company was presenting the latest generation of its Dyno-Mill UBM (Universal Bead Mill).

Repsol, Naturgy, Reganosa have plans to establish a 200 MW renewable hydrogen plant which will initially have a capacity of 30 MW. Once complete, the plant will produce 30,000 tons of renewable hydrogen per year and will then supply it to Repsol’s refinery in A Coruña as well as other consumers.

Kemira has recently joined the Renewable Carbon Initiative which focuses on speeding up the transition from fossil carbon to renewable carbon for all organic chemicals and materials. By associating with the initiative, Kemira aims at advancing innovative sustainability practices with a focus on promoting circularity and a bio-based economy.

SGP Bioenergy has plans to establish Latin America’s largest renewable fuels plant in Panama. For this project, the company has selected Topsoe to support the production of low-carbon fuels. Once complete, the biorefinery is expected to produce 180,000 barrels per day of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel, and 405,000 metric tonnes of green hydrogen annually.

HIF Global will develop the e-fuels plant in Matagorda County in Texas, USA and the project is expected to produce 200 million gallons of carbon-neutral gasoline annually. Construction of the plant will begin by 2023 and first production is scheduled for 2026.

Fluor has secured a front-end engineering as well as a detailed design, engineering and procurement services contract to establish a new renewable diesel unit for Imperial’s major renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery in Alberta, Canada. Expected to produce approximately 20,000 barrels of renewable diesel daily, the project is expected to be the largest renewable diesel production facility in Canada.

Federated Co-Operatives Ltd has selected Topsoe’s Hydroflex process for its new renewable diesel plant in Saskatchewan, Canada. On completion, the facility is expected to produce 15,000 barrels per day of low-carbon renewable diesel.

The Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) has welcomed the European Commission’s ‘Communication on Sustainable Carbon Cycles’ which focusses on the necessary measures for achieving climate neutrality in 2050. RCI has even called for implementation of its important measures.