Climate-neutral transportation, chemicals, heating and basic industries – hydrogen is supposed to do the trick. But the light gas is making it difficult for plant manufacturers. Can material storage offer an alternative and save the energy transition?

India is a land of water in many places: Huge streams, thousands of lakes and the ocean shape the face of the subcontinent. However, barely more than a third of India's wastewater is currently treated - the consequences for the population of billions are considerable. But there are examples that are encouraging - and technologies that are helping to bring life back.

Siemens makes use of its Vxlan transmission technology to run the Profinet protocol in real time via a private 5G network. A central control system for multiple mobile participants also helps to reduce energy and maintenance costs.

Under the collaboration agreement between Strategic Resources and Cipher Neutron, Cipher Neutron will supply AEM electrolyzers to Strategic’s Blackrock Project's metallurgical facility in Québec, Canada. The move is expected to accelerate Strategic’s green hydrogen production and explore the production of green steel.

Under a MOU signed between both the parties, Cummins and Chevron will further expand their collaboration by working towards hydrogen, natural gas and other lower carbon fuel value chains.

A time and space-saving combination of process steps in one mixing reactor — In industrial production processes, chemical reactions are generally part of a multi-stage process chain comprising both the synthesis process itself and a number of processing steps before and after. The vacuum mixing reactors of Lödige Process Technology make it possible to perform several of these steps one after the other in the same machine.

Aker Carbon Capture has delivered the world’s first carbon capture pilot for smelters in Rana, Norway. The pilot unit is connected to Elkem’s plant in Rana which produces high-purity ferrosilicon as well as microsilica and on full-scale, it is expected to capture 1.5 million tonnes of CO2.

The working world is becoming more and more mobile in the process industry. The acceptance and the desire for more mobility in operations is there. So, it is the right time to bring mobile devices even in the hazardous areas into the field, says Nader Halmuschi, who is leading the new Business Unit Automation and Communication Systems at the explosion protection expert Bartec.

It’s hard to imagine biotechnological production without the reactor out of the bag — but is the single-use megatrend still in vogue elsewhere in these sustainability-minded times? It certainly is, says Marcus Bayer, Market Segment Manager Single-Use at Hamilton.

Hycc’s green hydrogen project H2ermes is expected to produce 100 MW of green hydrogen in order to reduce emissions from numerous sectors such as steel, aviation, mobility and shipping in the broader Amsterdam region, the Netherlands.