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Worley studying feasibility of 25-GW green hydrogen project in Oman

Worley (North Sydney, Australia) has been contracted by Green Energy Oman (GEO), an international consortium, to support their 25-gigawatt (GW) low-carbon fuels project. Worley is providing concept feasibility study services to develop and challenge GEO's defined green hydrogen energy project.…

Air Liquide and Sogestran form JV for CCS and CO2 shipping

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) and Sogestran have signed an agreement to form a joint venture that will provide large-scale liquid CO2 shipping and barging solutions tailored to the needs of future Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects in Europe. This…

Nextchem completes construction of Italy’s first demonstration plant for chemical recycling of textile fibers

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiary NextChem has completed construction of the first demonstration plant in Italy for the chemical recycling of PET and polyester from textiles, as part of the European Union’s DEMETO project. The plant is located…

thyssenkrupp nucera to deliver electrolyzers for Air Products’ H2 facility in Arizona

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) has awarded thyssenkrupp nucera AG & Co. KGaA (Dortmund, Germany) the supply of its alkaline water electrolysis technology for a 10 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen in Casa Grande, Arizona.…

Siemens Energy to start production of hydrogen electrolyzers in Berlin

Siemens Energy (Munich, Germany) will locate the industrial production of electrolysis modules in Berlin and is thus taking the centerpiece of its hydrogen technology to the capital. Start of production at the location Huttenstrasse in Berlin’s Moabit locality is scheduled…

Sasol Chemicals and Holiferm enter partnership to develop new biosurfactants

Sasol Chemicals, a business unit of Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Holiferm Limited announced a partnership to jointly develop new biosurfactants and enable the broad commercialization of sophorolipids. Sasol Chemicals has agreed to purchase the majority of sophorolipids produced…

Veolia and Waga Energy commission one of the largest biomethane production units in Europe

Veolia (Paris) and Waga Energy have announced the commissioning of France’s largest biomethane production unit using biogas from a non-hazardous waste storage facility. Located on the largest biogas production site in France, Veolia’s industrial ecology hub in Claye-Souilly (Paris region),…

Alfa Laval to acquire edible oil and biofuel processing specialist Desmet

Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden) has signed an agreement to acquire Desmet, part of the Desmet Ballestra Group, a world leader in engineering and supplying processing plants and technologies for edible oils and biofuel sectors. The acquisition will strengthen Alfa…

Selective separation of individual rare-earth elements using DGA-based ligands

Utilizing rare-earth elements (REEs), such as for permanent magnets in renewable energy applications, requires costly chemical separations that generate large volumes of waste. A process featuring new diglycolamide (DGA)-based ligands and liquid-liquid extraction exhibits more effective separation of individual REEs,…

Pilot plant to produce ‘greener’ acrylonitrile at cost parity for carbon fiber

A pilot facility currently under construction in Charleston, W.Va. will produce renewable acrylonitrile (ACN) without requiring the traditional petroleum-based propylene as feedstock. Since ACN is the raw material used to make carbon fibers, the new route to ACN allows the…