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Haldor Topsoe joins large-scale green-hydrogen project in Denmark

Haldor Topsoe (Lyngby, Denmark) announced that is has joined an ambitious sustainable fuels project in Denmark. The project aims to develop a ground-breaking hydrogen and sustainable fuel facility based on electrolysis in the Greater Copenhagen Area. The project is expected…

Significant progress toward hydrogen-compatible microturbines

Capstone Turbine Corporation (Van Nuys, Calif.) announced that through a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, it has achieved significant progress in the development of a hydrogen-operable microturbine product. Development testing performed at Argonne demonstrates that…

New Occidental-backed development firm to deploy direct-air carbon capture

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC, a subsidiary of Occidental, and Rusheen Capital Management, a private equity firm, have formed a development company, 1PointFive, to finance and deploy Carbon Engineering’s large-scale Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology for carbon capture, utilization &…

BP, Aria Energy and Republic Services start up renewable natural-gas project in Tennessee

Republic Services Inc., and energy partners Aria Energy and bp plc (London), announced the startup of a landfill-gas-to-renewable-natural-gas (RNG) project at South Shelby Landfill near Memphis, Tennessee. The project directly supports Republic's commitment to send 50 percent more landfill gas…

CPI Bookshelf: September 2020

The following is a list of recently published books with relevance to the chemical process industries (CPI): Trevor Kletz Compendium: How his Best Process Stories are Still Relevant Today. Andy Brazier, Fiona MacLeod, David Edwards and others, Elsevier Press, 2020,…

Gevo and Praj to commercialize sustainable aviation fuel in India

Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) and Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India) have signed a binding, definitive Master Framework Agreement (MFA) to collaborate on providing renewable, low carbon, low particulate, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and renewable premium gasoline in India and neighboring…

Siemens Energy signs green-hydrogen agreement with China Power

Siemens Energy and Beijing Green Hydrogen Technology Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Power International Development Ltd. (China Power), signed an agreement on providing a hydrogen production system for a hydrogen fueling station. Located in Yanqing District, Beijing, one…

PPG and Berkeley National Lab receive DOE funding for sustainable coatings development

PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) for a research initiative aimed at developing energy-efficient coatings systems for the automotive industry. The PPG project – “Modeling Coating Flow and…

Neste to supply sustainable aviation fuel to three major U.S. airlines

Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) is supplying Alaska Airlines, American Airlines and JetBlue Airways with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for flights from San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The low-carbon and high-quality fuel will contribute to each airline’s efforts to reach their…

Phillips 66 plans to transform San Francisco refinery into world’s largest renewable fuels plant

Phillips 66 (Houston) announced that it plans to reconfigure its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to produce renewable fuels. The plant would no longer produce fuels from crude oil, but instead would make fuels from used cooking oil, fats,…