The Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC; Tarragona, Spain) has launched a new pilot line for the manufacturing of ceramic devices using 3D printing for the generation and use of renewable hydrogen via solid-oxide electrolysis. This manufacturing process for complete…
Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced it has been selected by Technip Energies (Paris) to provide integrated automation and safety technologies to the Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) and Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) projects, which represent two of the…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is now evaluating a patented solvent-based process for food-safe HDPE recycled material at a pilot plant in Heerenveen, the Netherlands in collaboration with the independent technological institute NTCP. The innovation project, which is funded by the…
Carbios S.A. (St-Beauzire, France) and Wankai New Materials, a listed subsidiary of Zhink Group, the 3rd largest PET producer in China and 4th worldwide, announce the signing of the definitive agreement establishing a strategic partnership for the large-scale deployment of…
Japan Suiso Energy, Ltd. (JSE) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Kawasaki LH2 Terminal, a liquefied hydrogen base in Ogishima, Kawasaki City, Japan. Kawasaki LH2 Terminal is the key facility for the “Liquefied Hydrogen…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) has announced its participation in the Swiss Association for the Decarbonization of Industry (VZDI) methane pyrolysis project. VZDI inaugurated a unique methane pyrolysis plant at the production site of V-ZUG, a VSDI member and market leader in household…
Moeve (formerly Cepsa; Madrid, Spain) and Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced an expanded collaboration to scale up production technologies of bio-based Linear Alkylbenzene (LAB), the raw material for making LAS (Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate), the main surfactant in the production…
The widely used plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) can be depolymerized by reacting it with sodium hydroxide (NaOH) under strong mechanical impact from metal spheres in a ball mill. This type of mechanochemical route to recycling could alleviate some of the…
The production of commercially important hydrocarbons from synthesis gas (syngas; mixtures of H2 and CO) using the Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) process is a key strategy for making fuels and chemicals from a range of non-petroleum feedstocks. But F-T processes are relatively…
Among the major challenges facing efforts to chemically recycle common waste plastics is that many methods require a pure stream of a single type of polymer to be effective. Now, researchers at Northwestern University (NU; Evanston, Ill.; www.northwestern.edu), led by…