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Green hydrogen: thyssenkrupp expands production capacities for water electrolysis to gigawatt scale

Green hydrogen is gaining in importance worldwide as an energy carrier and CO2-free feedstock for the chemical industry. As a result, demand is rising for industrial electrolysis plants that can produce green hydrogen cost-efficiently. Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany)…

Wood awarded contract for Humber Zero carbon-capture project

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) is delivering the concept selection and early design for the U.K.’s Humber Zero carbon capture project, which aims to create a zero-carbon industrial cluster, in a new contract for VPI Immingham. The project will integrate established…

Yokogawa signs investment partnership with chemical-recycling company Jeplan

Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) announces that it has signed an investment and partnership agreement with Jeplan, Inc., a polyester-material recycling company with a unique chemical recycling technology. The two companies will partner in a business that makes use of…

Black & Veatch to help Intermountain Power Agency transition to green hydrogen

Black & Veatch (B&V; Overland Park, Kan.) is working with Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) to accelerate IPA’s transition to green hydrogen as it works to substantially decrease and ultimately minimize its carbon footprint across Utah, Nevada and California. BV has…

Green hydrogen gains ground in the chemical process industries

According to water-electrolysis specialist Nel Hydrogen, the market driving a large part of the significant growth in hydrogen generation via electrolysis is the chemical manufacturing industry, with especially large demand from applications like ammonia and methanol production, but also in…

Major CCUS project begins operation in Canada

In Canada, the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL) system, the world’s newest large-scale carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) project, is now fully operational, said Enhance Energy, one of the project’s partners. The ACTL system captures industrial emissions and delivers…

LanzaTech launches sustainable aviation-fuel company LanzaJet

LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.), a leading biotech company and carbon recycler, has successfully launched LanzaJet, Inc., a new company that will produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). With its approach to commercialization of SAF, LanzaJet is creating regional jobs while enabling global…

HollyFrontier to convert Cheyenne Refinery for renewable diesel production

HollyFrontier Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) announced that its Board of Directors has approved a plan to convert the Cheyenne Refinery to renewable diesel production and to construct a pre-treatment unit (PTU) located at the Artesia Refinery. Including the previously announced renewable…

Dow, ArcelorMittal, Yara and more join cross-border carbon-capture consortium

Capturing CO2 then reusing it or storing it underground is one way to meet climate targets. Under the wings of Smart Delta Resources, a cross-border consortium of companies is taking the first step towards using this approach to significantly reduce…

North Sea green-hydrogen project welcomes a new partner

Neptune Energy (London) and DEME Group (Zwijndrecht, Belgiujm) have announced that DEME Offshore is joining the PosHYdon offshore hydrogen pilot as partner. DEME is the world leader in offshore wind energy and recently entered into partnerships through its subsidiary DEME…