Adnoc has partnered with Siemens Energy to co-develop blockchain-based low-CO2 energy certificates. This solution will help to certify the carbon intensity of a range of products from Adnoc including Murban crude, ammonia, and aviation fuels.

Prior to this role, Peter Zornio held the position of chief technology officer at Emerson’s Automation Solutions business. He is now responsible for leading innovation strategy, overall product roadmap, technology and portfolio direction, central R&D functions, and industry standards across Emerson.

The Trace-Gas FID technology platform is designed for high precision analysis of organic hydrocarbon compounds (VOC/THC/Methane).

Alfa Laval has launched two new mixproof valves – the Alfa Laval Unique Mixproof CIP and Unique Mixproof Process. The Unique Mixproof CIP is a double-seat valve that safely and efficiently manages the flow of cleaning media during cleaning-in-place while the Unique Mixproof Process, a compact version of proven Alfa Laval double-seat valves, is configurable and available in various sizes to meet the manufacturers’ requirements.

Johnson Matthey has sold part of its battery materials business to EV Metals Group. The deal includes the company’s assets at the Battery Technology Centre in Oxford & Battery Technology Centre as well as pilot plant in Billingham; a research centre in Moosburg, Germany; the partly constructed site in Konin, Poland and the firm’s Elno technology.

Pfeiffer Vacuum has introduced a new vacuum calculator that can identify matching products for specific applications as well as perform different calculations for self-configurated pumping solutions.

Lanxess has introduced three new weak acid cation (WAC) resins along with two weak base anion exchange resins in its Lewatit product portfolio. The new WAC resins consist of renewable raw materials.

The mixing of a viscoplastic fluid with an anchor impeller is studied visually. Three different types of experiments, documented through videos and still images, demonstrate the existence of an unyielded region, rotating like a rigid body. These results are in good agreement with previous workers’ numerical predictions, and dramatically show the influence of yield stress on mixing effectiveness, even with a well-designed agitation system. The unyielded region is the equivalent, for a close-clearance impeller, of the stagnant region outside the well-known ‘cavern’ forming around a small-diameter impeller. Furthermore, for such systems the presence of motion is not by itself a criterion by which quality of mixing can be assessed.

Air Products and Gunvor Petroleum Rotterdam have plans to develop a green hydrogen import terminal in Rotterdam. Green ammonia will be received at the site from Air Products’ green hydrogen production locations.

The new facility is expected to initially convert up to one million tons of municipal solid waste annually, later it can be expanded up to four million tons of waste, to produce 67,000 tons of green hydrogen and one million tons of CO₂.