Sustainability
CE Podcast: CCUS technologies with Black & Veatch’s Algert Prifti
On this episode of the Chemical Engineering podcast, senior editor Scott Jenkins hosts Algert Prifti, the CCUS Solutions Portfolio Manager and Decarbonization/CCUS Technologies lead at Black & Veatch. The discussion surrounds the current state of carbon capture technologies, utilization and…
Alfa Laval produces titanium heat exchanger plates with 25% recycled content
Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden) has set a new industry benchmark in manufacturing with a pioneering initiative at its gasketed plate heat exchanger factory in Jiangyin, China. As part of its ambition to reduce the carbon footprint of its heat…
Asahi Kasei signs MoU with Power to Hydrogen to accelerate commercialization of AEM water electrolysis
Asahi Kasei (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.com), a diversified global company, and U.S.-based Power to Hydrogen (P2H2; www.power-h2.com) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to evaluate manufacturing scale-up and commercialization of water electrolysis systems utilizing anion exchange membrane (AEM) technology to…
Carbon capture trial at ArcelorMittal’s Gent steelworks achieves 90% CO2 capture from blast furnace gas
A carbon capture trial by ArcelorMittal S.A. (Luxembourg City, Luxembourg), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan), BHP Group Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia) and Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd (MDP; Brisbane, Australia) has successfully captured carbon dioxide (CO2) from blast furnace gas…
Transition Industries signs EPC agreement for Pacifico Mexinol electrolyzer facility
Transition Industries LLC (Houston, Texas) announced that it has signed a definitive engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement with Siemens Energy AG (Munich, Germany) and Techint Engineering & Construction (Techint E&C; Buenos Aires, Argentina) for the approximately 210-MW electrolyzer facility…
Biomanufacturing at Scale: Separating Feasibility from Commercial Viability
Physical scalability in fermentation was established decades ago. The decisions that determine whether a bioprocess for making a specialty chemical becomes a profitable one are made earlier, and they focus on deployment execution and commercial position of the product Ask…
The Scale-up Gap in Bio-based Materials
Successful pilot operations are a necessary first step, but for bio-based processes, getting a product plant-ready requires navigating the gap between research environments and industrial plant settings A successful pilot batch has a way of changing the mood in a…
Topsoe selected as technology licensor for HDF Energy’s BaseBlue blue hydrogen project
Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has been selected by HDF Energy S.A. (Bordeaux, France) as technology licensor for BaseBlue. The power project is planned to supply data centers in Texas with reliable, low-carbon electricity. Under the agreement, Topsoe will provide the…
Stora Enso and Shanshan partner on lignin-based hard carbon anode demonstration line
Stora Enso Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) and Shanshan Technology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) have entered into a partnership to jointly accelerate the development and industrialization of sustainable battery materials with the construction of a demonstration line for lignin-based hard carbon battery…
Veolia and Sumitomo Chemical join Japan’s plastic resource circulation model project
Veolia Jenets K.K. (Tokyo, Japan) and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) have been selected to participate in the Ministry of the Environment of Japan’s FY2026 Model Project for Plastic Resource Circulation. By combining mechanical recycling (MR) and chemical recycling…