AGC Inc. (Tokyo) and Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) are collaborating on the design of a pilot breakthrough flat-glass line that is expected to reduce very significantly its direct CO2 emissions. As part of this R&D project, AGC’s patterned glass production line…
KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that its green ammonia technology, K-GreeN, has been selected by Enaex, S.A. for its innovative HyEx green ammonia project in Chile. The HyEx project will demonstrate operational stability of production of green ammonia using renewable energy…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary NextChem S.p.A. has signed an agreement with Biorenova S.p.A. to acquire, scale up and industrialize the proprietary CatC technology, a continuous chemical recycling process to recover monomers (building blocks for the…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has signed a long-term agreement to supply clean hydrogen and other industrial gases to OCI N.V.’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) new world-scale blue ammonia plant in Beaumont, Texas. Linde will build, own and operate…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work jointly on projects in India for production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) from low carbon alcohols through Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) pathway. India is…
Baker Hughes (Houston) announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) to jointly explore potential opportunities for the scale up and adoption of novel technology solutions for green hydrogen, green ammonia and geothermal projects. The companies see new…
Aker Carbon Capture AS (Lysaker, Norway) has been awarded a feasibility study for the development of two carbon capture plants for Röhm (Darmstadt, Germany) to capture nearly 500,000 tons CO2 per year. Aker Carbon Capture recently started up a significant carbon-capture…
A new advanced recycling process simplifies the task of breaking down polymer chains and stabilizing the resulting fragments. The Hydrochemolytic technology (HCT), developed by Aduro Clean Technologies, Inc. (Sarnia, Ont., Canada; www.adurocleantech.com), involves processing waste plastic with water, an inexpensive…
Chemical engineers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL; www.epfl.ch), in collaboration with scientists from Toyota Motor Europe (Zaventem, Belgium; www.toyota-europe.com), have invented a photoelectrochemical (PEC) “artificial leaf” that splits water vapor into H2. The technology features a…
Blue Planet Systems (Los Gatos, Calif.; www.blueplanetsystems.com) and Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) have announced a partnership to accelerate development of Blue Planet’s process for mineralizing carbon dioxide gas into construction aggregate for concrete. By sequestering CO2 into the…