Alujain National Industrial Co. has chosen Lummus Technology’s C3 Catofin propane dehydrogenation technology for its new propylene plant in Yanbu, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The new, energy efficient plant is expected to produce 600,000 MTA of propylene on completion.

A joint project by Toho Gas and Nagoya University aims at the development of technology for CO2 separation, capture, and the like. To support the development and demonstration of this project, JGC Japan will focus on the Cryo-Capture technology which makes use of unused LNG cold energy in CO2 capture from factory exhaust gas.

Under a MOU signed between both the parties, Lyondell Basell and Shakti Plastic Industries will develop a fully-automated, mechanical recycling plant in India which is expected to produce 50.000 tonnes of recycled polyethylene and polypropylene annually.

How a desalination plant uses the most sustainable and available energy source to generate fresh drinking water — Seawater desalination has a large ecological footprint, as the processes used to generate fresh water from brine or seawater are energy intensive an often rely on fossil fuels. Luckily, the arid regions that rely on desalination the most have one resource in abundance: sunlight. Can solar power bring green drinking water to the Middle East?

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.

With an aim to expand the green hydrogen economy within Europe and across the globe, Cummins has plans to develop a new gigawatt PEM electrolyzer manufacturing plant in Guadalajara, Spain. The project is expected to produce 500 MW of electrolyzers annually and can be scalable to produce more than 1 GW every year.

Samson Pfeiffer offers smart valves that can be used for the purpose of hydrogen production. The firm supplies its valves to companies that focus on the development of electrolysis plants.

Precision and flexibility over speed — this is what is needed in manufacturing test preparations for clinical studies. With an eye to these requirements Harro Höfliger has developed an automatic powder dosing system for microvolumes. PharmaTEC talked to Dr. Elke Sternberger-Rützel, Head of Pharma Services, about the trick with piezoelectric crystals and the ideal application.

China has recently launched the biggest reform of its oil and gas industry in the last twenty years. Last week, the newly formed state-owned company Pipechina began purchasing the Chinese gas pipeline network. According to the Chinese state media, the company, also known as the "China Oil and Gas Pipeline Network", is acquiring Sinopec's Yulin-Jinan pipeline for 47.9 billion euros.

Levima Green (Shandong) Advanced Materials Co. has chosen Lyondell Basell’s Lupotech T high-pressure polyethylene technology for its new vinyl acetate copolymer line in China which is expected to produce 200 kilo tons annually.