Adnoc Refining is expected to complete the first phase of its Waste Heat Recovery project at the General Utilities Plant in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, UAE. The 600-million-dollar project will recycle waste heat generated from the plant, thus increasing power production and thermal efficiency of the facility by around 30 % with no additional emissions.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of December 2022’ from all over the world. Right from developing Europe’s largest green hydrogen hub to Sulzer offering technologies for the world’s first commercial scale e-methanol plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

With an aim to remain competitiveness in today’s rapidly changing economic and geopolitical environment especially in Europe, OQ Chemicals has decided to realign its organization and reduce its workforce in Germany.

The requirements for pumps are clear: A safe, efficient and reliable performance — An yet, corrosive media provides a tough challenge for the versatile machines. Can engineers only choose between wear and energy loss? Lined magnetic drive pumps could change the way we handle fluidics.

Italian chemical company Sabo acquired Evonik’s two TAA production sites in Marl, Germany and Liaoyang, China, as of January 1, 2023. Around 250 employees have been transfered to new owner.

Brightmark RNG has successfully delivered the first renewable natural gas from its Larson Project in Okeechobee County, Florida. The firm aims to establish an extensive network of projects across the U.S. to produce dairy RNG for lower carbon intensity transportation fuel.

Petrofac has been selected as Owner’s Engineer for Transitional Energy Group’s Gente Grande Green Ammonia Project in Chile. The project is expected to produce more than 1.3 million tonnes of green ammonia every year.

In response to increasingly stringent regulations for the production of injectable drugs, Ima Life has been pioneering a solution whose technologies hinge on the integrated use of advanced robotics. Both European and North American guidelines, respectively the cGMP Annex 1 and FDA guidelines, are demanding closer attention with regard to eliminating the risk of contamination. The development of Injecta, Ima Life’s fill-finish processing solution for RTU components, which handles injectables in aseptic conditions under isolator, owes a significant part of its ongoing success to the excellent partnership built between Ima Life engineering team and Kawasaki Robotics experts.

Oxychem has selected thyssenkrupp nucera to install the next generation ebitac v7 electrolyzers at its large-scale chlor-alkali electrolysis plant in LaPorte, Texas, USA. The firm aims to convert the facility to the membrane chlor-alkali technology from the existing diaphragm cell technology.

A research team from the Otto Diels Institute of Organic Chemistry at Kiel University has developed a special palladium catalyst that can for the first time selectively activate carbon-hydrogen bonds.