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SK Innovation to use pyrolysis oil from plastics recycling as refinery feedstock

SK Innovation’s Ulsan Complex (Ulsan CLX) will be the first in South Korea to introduce pyrolysis oil as feedstock material for refinery/petrochemical processing. Aside from its innovative approach as a solution to waste plastics, what makes this advancement more striking…

ALPLA to acquire German PET recycler

ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is acquiring BTB PET-Recycling GmbH & Co. KG, based in Bad Salzuflen, Germany. The company turns PET bottles into recycled material, which is then predominantly used for the production of new beverage bottles. Its bottle-to-bottle packaging…

Operation begins at the world’s largest direct air capture, CO2-storage plant

Last month, Climeworks (Zurich, Switzerland; www.climeworks.com) started operations of Orca, said to be the world’s first and largest climate-positive direct air capture (DAC) and storage plant. Located in Hellisheiði, Iceland, the Orca plant has a capturing capacity of 4,000 ton/yr…

Integration of CO2 direct air capture and alcohol-to-jet fuels manufacturing

A feasibility study is underway for the world’s first commercial facility that integrates direct air capture (DAC) of atmospheric carbon dioxide with gas fermentation of CO2 and production of aviation fuels. LanzaTech (Chicago, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) and Carbon Engineering (Squamish, B.C.;…

LyondellBasell and Evonik expand energy alliance

  LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) signed an agreement to purchase high-pressure steam generated from natural gas. The agreement allows LyondellBasell to phase out coal from its  power plant in Wesseling, Germany, by December 2023. …

McDermott joins AquaVentus consortium to advance renewable hydrogen production

McDermott International Inc. has joined AquaVentus, a growing consortium of more than 70 companies, organizations and research institutions collaborating toward green hydrogen energy production in the North Sea. AquaVentus unites international industry leaders with a shared vision for advancing hydrogen's…

Shell starts up RNG production at biomethane plant in Oregon

Shell Oil Products US, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has successfully achieved startup and production of renewable natural gas (RNG) at its first US biomethane facility, Shell New Energies Junction City in Oregon. The facility utilizes locally sourced…

Shell and BASF collaborate to deploy adsorption technology for carbon-capture applications

Royal Dutch Shell (The Hague, the Netherlands) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) have worked together to evaluate, de-risk, and deploy BASF’s Sorbead Adsorption Technology for pre- and post-combustion Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) applications. The Sorbead Adsorption Technology is used…

Gevo awarded patent for alcohol-to-fuels process technology

Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced that it has received a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a process that encompasses upgrading ethanol and bio-based alcohols into drop-in, bio-based diesel and jet-fuel products. The USPTO has…

NextChem to start feasibility study for a green ammonia plant in Iowa

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announced that its subsidiaries NextChem, MET Development and Stamicarbon have reached an agreement with U.S.-based Greenfield Nitrogen LLC, to develop the first dedicated green ammonia plant in the US Midwest. As part of the agreement,…