Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway) and Northern Lights have signed the world’s first commercial agreement on cross-border CO2 transport and storage. This is groundbreaking for the decarbonization of European heavy industry, opening the market for cross border CO2 transport and…
Ohmium International, a green hydrogen company that designs, manufactures, and deploys PEM electrolyzers, is collaborating with Shell India to evaluate hydrogen applications, markets, and project opportunities in India and globally. As part of the collaboration, both parties have intent to…
A next-generation ethane-feed steam cracker designed by Lummus Technology (Houston; www.lummus.com) has the ability to achieve zero carbon dioxide emissions in the production of ethylene. The zero-CO2 design utilizes Lummus SRT pyrolysis furnaces and a state-of-the-art product-recovery system. Lummus improved…
Flyash, a waste byproduct from coal burning, has been used effectively as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) in Portland cement to displace a portion of the cement and lower the CO2 emissions associated with cement making. But because coal burning…
Aluminum alloy 7075 has excellent mechanical properties, including high strength for lightweighting applications, but its production process is energy intensive, which raises costs and limits its use. Now, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL; Richland, Wash.; www.pnnl.gov) have developed…
thyssenkrupp Uhde has won a new contract from its long-standing customer and QatarEnergy’s affiliate, Qatar Fertiliser Company (QAFCO), for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of a world-scale ammonia plant, capable of producing its full output as Blue Ammonia. The…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and Associated British Ports (ABP) announced their intention to partner in bringing the first large scale, green hydrogen production facility to the UK. The facility would import green ammonia from production locations operated by Air…
Technip Energies (Paris) announced the purchase of the Biosuccinium technology from Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands), adding another technology solution to its growing Sustainable Chemicals portfolio. This technology synergizes with recently developed proprietary bio-polymer technologies and provides a commercially…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and Shell are making inroads into defossilizing heavy-duty road transport with Bio-LNG (liquefied natural gas). Shell is supplying 100 tons of Bio-LNG made from agricultural waste to Evonik. It is equivalent to the average fuel…
Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Quantafuel ASA (Oslo, Norway) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in the industrialisation and construction of waste plastics chemical recycling plants based on Quantafuel technology. This MoU positions Saipem to…