Air Liquide has developed a new 20 MW PEM electrolyzer which is now producing up to 8.2 tons per day of low-carbon hydrogen in Bécancour, Québec, Canada. The electrolysis unit is equipped with the Cummins technology and is expected to meet the growing demand for low-carbon hydrogen in North America.

A new project at Jacobs University is set to drastically simplify the application and implementation of biocatalytic processes in industrial practice.

Reliance Industries has appointed Texan based Fluor with project management services at its its world scale Jamnagar refining and petrochemical complex in Western India, wehere the company plans one of the largest coke gasification facilities worldwide.

KBR has been selected by Keppel Data Centres to carry out an energy transition study in which the company will have to evaluate scenarios for alternative hydrogen-based energy sources to supply to new data centers in Singapore.

Achema Pulse is a new digital format that has been introduced to complement the prominent trade fairs Achema and Achem Asia. Scheduled to be held from June 15 – 16, 2021, the virtual platform aims at bringing together industry leaders and market players from the process industries in order to explore opportunities for collaboration and establish new contacts.

Solvay’s hydrogen platform will offer the polymer membranes technology which is expected to be a vital contributor to the electrolyzer and fuel cells markets. Through this platform, the company also plans to contribute multiple other applications and components to the hydrogen market.

The American Chemistry Council’s Chemical Activity Barometer rose 1.5 % in January on a three-month moving average basis following a 1.3 % increase in December. The Council also stated that the barometer rose 1.3 % in January on a year-over-year basis.

Chemicals giant Bayer plans to get rid of the remaining material science and polymers business: The company wants to focus on life science solutions, bringing its subsidiary Bayer material Science on the stock market by 2016. Already in 2004, the company had divested large parts of its speciality chemicals and polymer business into the new formed Lanxess.

Especially for rough industrial processes Leybold introduces the uncomplicated, dry rough vacuum Clawvac pump. Besides food processing, packaging and environmental technology applications, it is suitable for drying and sterilization processes. The company also offers with the Clawvac System series a new multiple pump system. These systems are based on Clawvac and offer a redundant plug-and-play solution.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has been granted the first patent for a method to simultaneously extract carbon dioxide and hydrogen from seawater. This single process provides all the raw materials necessary for the production of synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuels.