With a capacity of 750,000 tonnes of liquefied natural gas per annum, the new plant is expected to meet the growing demands of the domestic market. The contract for this project was awarded by Inner Mongolia Huineng Coal Chemical.

Skids, package units and flexible modules: The trends and facts in modular plant engineering – Flexible like a construction kit and powerful like a made-to-measure system: Modularisation has the potential to herald in a new era of plant construction. However, on the way there, there are not only technical hurdles to overcome — definitions are also being fought over. An status-report between PED, process skids and MTP.

From process and conveyor belts, from stainless steels to carbon steel or titanium, from endless loops to open units, with polished or ground surfaces, with tracks or level walls – Berndorf belts are quite diverse.

The second progress report for improvement of Reach Registration Dossiers has stated that the number of dossiers evaluated under the Cefic Reach Action Plan increased by 55 % last year as compared to 2019. A key highlight of the results is that 190 member companies with Reach registration dossiers signed the voluntary commitment.

Technip Energies has secured an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) contract by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) for upgrading its BR9 Expansion Project in Barauni, Bihar, India. The contract includes the installation of a new Once-through Hydrocracker Unit, a Fuel Gas Treatment Unit and associated facilities.

French agriculture has a wealth of raw and waste materials that are suitable for biogas plants. However, only half of the available materials are presently used for energy production. Thus, ambitious development plans have been drawn up: By 2020, the biomass share in the field of renewable energies in France is to rise to about 50 percent.

The advantages of flexible automation solutions have long been talked about, and now it comes down to putting them into practice. In doing so, the aim is to link the respective smart modules in such a way that the overall plant runs in harmony. ABB shows that it has mastered all the parts in the orchestra.

The larger the reaction vessel, the quicker products can be made – or so you might think. Microreactors show just how wrong that assumption is: in fact, they can be used to produce explosive materials – nitroglycerine, for instance – around ten times faster than in conventional vessels, and much more safely as well. At the ACHEMA trade fair, held June 18-22 in Frankfurt, researchers demonstrate microreactors they use for a very broad range of chemical processes...

Under the joint initiative Hybrit, SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall have started the construction of a large-scale hydrogen storage facility located next to Hybrit’s pilot facility in Luleå, Sweden. The storage facility is expected to be operational by 2022.

The new SEW-Eurodrive asynchronous motors meet Atex (Europe), IECEx (International) and HazLoc- NA (North America) requirements for deployment of equipment in explosion hazard areas.