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Accelera delivers its largest electrolyzer system to Linde’s Niagara Falls facility

Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business segment of Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) has supplied a 35-megawatt (MW) proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer system, its largest to date, to support hydrogen production at Linde’s facility in Niagara Falls, New York. Powered…

USA BioEnergy selects JM and Honeywell technologies for new SAF facility in Texas

USA BioEnergy announced it has selected Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) and Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) to provide their process technologies to USA BioEnergy to produce synthetic paraffinic kerosene (SPK) at its Bon Wier, Texas biorefinery. JM/bp’s award-winning FT…

Worley awarded FEED verification contract for Preem renewable-fuels project

Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia)  has been awarded a contract by Preem AB (Stockholm, Sweden) for Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) verification for the planned conversion of the ICR plant at the Lysekil refinery in Sweden. The project aims to transform the…

HIF Global to construct Tasmania e-Fuels facility at former Burnie Paper Mill site

E-Fuels company HIF Global (Houston) announced that it plans to locate the HIF Tasmania e-Fuels Facility at the former Burnie Paper Mill site in South Burnie. The move will bring new life to one of the region’s most significant industrial…

Versalis and Veritas sign agreement promoting advanced polystyrene recycling

Versalis S.p.A., Eni’s chemical company, and Veritas, one of Italy’s largest multi-utilities operating in the Metropolitan City of Venice and in parts of the Province of Treviso, signed an agreement to promote the circular economy, with a particular focus on…

Metsä and Andritz start up pulp-mill CO2-capture pilot plant

Finnish pulp, wood and paperboard company Metsä Group (Espoo, Finland) has started operating a carbon capture pilot plant at its Rauma mill, in cooperation with technology company Andritz (Graz, Austria), which supplied the plant. The pilot will test the capture…

Ascend Elements produces recycled lithium carbonate from used Li-ion batteries at commercial scale

Ascend Elements (Covington, Ga.; www.ascendelements.com) achieved a significant milestone in domestic critical minerals recovery last month – producing >99% pure, recycled lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) from black mass for the first time at commercial scale. Black mass is a dark, powdery…

Dow and Gruppo Fiori develop new recycling process for automotive polyurethane waste

  Dow (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com), in partnership with Gruppo Fiori (Bologna, Italy; www.gruppofiori.it) recently announced the latest advancements in a jointly-developed, novel process that enables recovery of polyurethane (PU) waste from end-of-life vehicles without disassembly. This innovation combines Dow’s expertise…

Ecolab invests in Blastr Green Steel’s flagship project in Finland

Norwegian steel firm Blastr Green Steel (Blastr) announced that Ecolab Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.) has come onboard as a new strategic investor in its latest round of financing, aiming to collaborate on best-in-class water systems at its flagship ultra-low CO2…

Nuada carbon-capture technology goes live at enfinium’s energy-from-waste facility in the U.K.

Nuada’s (Newtownabbey, U.K.; www.nuadaco2.com) next-generation carbon capture solution is now operational at enfinium’s (West Yorkshire, U.K.; www.enfinium.co.uk) Ferrybridge-1 energy from waste (EfW) facility in West Yorkshire. The successful commissioning of the pilot plant marks the start of a collaboration between…