BASF has plans to construct a commercial-scale battery recycling black mass plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. With a processing capacity of 15,000 tons of EV batteries and production scrap every year, the plant is expected to be built to the highest EHS standards.

With a revenue of 1.4 billion dollars in 2020, Tata Chemicals needs no introduction. Zarir Langrana, Executive Director and President (Global Chemicals Business), Tata Chemicals in an interview with PROCESS Worldwide shares the various measures undertaken by the company in the background of trending concepts such as circular economy, digitalization and decarbonization.

Under a joint study agreement, Pertamina and Air Liquide Indonesia have teamed up to develop Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) technology at the Balikpapan Refinery Processing Unit in Indonesia. The two firms will jointly conduct a study on CO2 Syngas and Flue Gas capture technology application from hydrogen production at the site.

Repsol has started up its 2.5 MW electrolyzer at its Petronor industrial center in Biscay, Spain which is expected to produce 350 tons per year of renewable hydrogen for industrial use.

Suspending their businesses, exiting projects and vowing to stop all new investments, this is how global energy and chemical firms are protesting against the world’s largest exporter of crude as well as the leading producer and exporter of natural gas – Russia.

In the background of rising inflation, W. R. Grace has announced an increase in global prices for its Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalysts. The company states that the move was necessary as inflation was impacting the energy as well as raw material markets.

The Module Type Package (MTP) provides a modern solution to modularize a plant in the domain of process industries. To achieve this, MTP defines an interface for the simple orchestration and connection of modules to a higher-level control system. With TwinCAT MTP, Beckhoff enables MTP project planning and automatic code generation. This solution opens up an integrated and efficient way to develop modules in the universal TwinCAT engineering environment.

Today, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) facilities around the world have the capacity to capture more than 40 Mt CO2 each year, according to the International Energy Agency. This figure is set to increase as more countries form CCUS-friendly policies in order to establish these green projects with aim to decarbonize its industrial facilities.

The process industries must establish efficient and circular processes that do not require fossil raw materials and energy. But what does that mean for the careful use of water as a resource? We talked about this with Dr. Thomas Track, Head of Dechema’s Water Management Department.

Neste has launched a strategic study to transition its Porvoo refinery in Finland into a renewable and circular solutions site. The move is expected to discontinue the refining of crude oil at the site by the mid-2030s. The company is also exploring opportunities for green hydrogen at its refinery.