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Perstorp to convert base polyols production to more environmentally friendly grades

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions for its polyol customers and downstream value chains, Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) announced that it is converting all base polyols produced at their Perstorp, Sweden plant – Pentaerythritol (Penta), Neopentyl glycol (Neo) and Trimethylolpropane (TMP)…

Plug Power to build green-hydrogen plant in Belgium

Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) will build a 35-ton-per-day green-hydrogen generation plant at Port of Antwerp-Bruges, Belgium. Plug signed a 30-year concession agreement to build the plant at the Belgian port, the second largest in Europe. Plug plans to erect…

Worley awarded FEED contract for U.K. low-carbon-fuels project

Worley (North Sydney, Australia) was awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) services contract by Alfanar for a low‑carbon fuels project in Teesside, U.K. Alfanar’s Lighthouse Green Fuels project will convert residual solid waste into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and green…

New waste-to-hydrogen facility planned in Egypt

The General Authority for Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) signed a memorandum of understanding with H2-Industries Inc. to build a new Waste-to-Hydrogen facility at a new greenfield site in East Port Said, Egypt, a project with an estimated cost of…

KBR invests $100 million in plastics recycler Mura Technology

KBR, Inc. (Houston) has entered into an agreement to invest an additional $100 million in Mura Technology bringing KBR's aggregate investment in Mura to 18.5%. This investment provides Mura incremental capital to accelerate development of its plastics recycling projects and…

Topsoe technology selected for Braya Renewable Fuels Refinery in Newfoundland

Cresta Funds Management (Dallas, Tex.) has chosen Topsoe’s HydroFlex solution for revamping the Braya Renewable Fuels refinery (Braya) in Newfoundland, Canada. The refinery will produce up to 18,000 barrels per day of Renewable Diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) initially…

Cemex and partners inaugurate the Carbon Neutral Alliance at Rüdersdorf Cement Plant

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (Monterrey, Mexico) and its partners announced the inauguration of the Carbon Neutral Alliance, which aims to accelerate the development of innovative technologies designed to transform CEMEX’s Rüdersdorf plant into the first carbon-neutral cement facility by 2030.…

Recycling bauxite residues and electrowinning iron

Electrochem Technologies & Materials Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.electrochem-technologies.com) produced pure electrolytic iron (99.995% Fe) using its patented FerWIN process (diagram) — a sustainable zero-carbon iron-making technology — from ferrous sulfate heptahydrate (copperas) originating from the sulfation of bauxite residues. This…

Integrated technologies enhance ‘green’-ammonia economics

Ammonia produced using renewable energy is poised to be a crucial part of the hydrogen value chain as a mechanism for storing and transporting hydrogen. By combining two state-of-the art technologies for ammonia production and hydrogen storage, Hydrofuel Canada Inc.…

Global cement industry supports startups in drive to achieve ‘net zero’ by 2050

Last month, the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA; London, U.K.; https://gccassociation.org) revealed the first six startups that will be backed by its member companies as part of the first ever Innovandi “Open Challenge” in the race to achieve “net…