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E.ON and thyssenkrupp bring hydrogen production to the electricity market

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany) has reached a further milestone in the reliable use of renewables: Its proprietary water-electrolysis technology for the production of green hydrogen meets the requirements for participation in the primary control reserve market. In the…

Recently Published Books for the CPI: July 2020

The following recently published books may be of interest to chemical process industries (CPI) professionals: Smart Manufacturing: Applications and Case Studies. Edited by Masoud Soroush, Michael Baldea and Thomas Edgar, Elsevier Press, 2020, 525 pages, $200.00. Analytical Design of PID…

Thyssenkrupp Materials Services and mantro launch joint venture for steel recycling

thyssenkrupp Materials Services  and mantro GmbH have founded a new steel-recycling joint venture called mt industry recycling GmbH. The joint venture aims to achieve a more effective return of steel scrap to the production processes of the manufacturing industry and…

Eni and Maire Tecnimont strengthen partnership with waste-to-hydrogen and waste-to-methanol projects

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and NextChem, the Maire Tecnimont Group’s subsidiary for green chemistry, strengthened their partnership, which will conduct research for a new project to be developed in Taranto, in addition to ongoing engineering studies for a waste-to-hydrogen production…

Mitsui enters strategic alliance with New Zealand hydrogen supplier Hiringa Energy

After recently investing in a U.S.-based hydrogen company, Mitsui & Co. (Tokyo) is joining forces with another hydrogen supplier by signing a strategic alliance agreement with New Zealand’s first company dedicated to the supply of green hydrogen, Hiringa Energy The…

Drax and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to construct combined bioenergy and carbon-capture pilot plant

Drax Group and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd., part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group (MHI), have agreed a new bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) pilot project at Drax Power Station which will get underway this autumn. The pilot…

BP Ventures invests $5 million in geospatial methane-monitoring

BP plc (London) announced that bp ventures has invested $5 million in Satelytics, a cloud-based geospatial analytics software company that uses advanced spectral imagery and machine learning to monitor environmental changes, including methane emissions. Satelytics collects high resolution spectral imagery…

Austrian consortium unveils major decarbonization project focused on CO2 capture, green hydrogen

In Austria, a consortium of Lafarge Zementwerke, a member of LafargeHolcim Group, OMV, VERBUND and Borealis have co-signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the joint planning and construction of a full-scale plant by 2030 to capture CO2 and process…

Agilyx and TechnipFMC to collaborate on pathways for polystyrene re-use

Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.) announced an exclusive collaboration with TechnipFMC to jointly develop a process to purify Agilyx Styrene Oil to high-purity styrene. This collaboration has been the result of over a year of evaluation, and their desire to expand…

Eleven regional projects to receive funding from E.U.’s Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Joint Undertaking

Europe’s Fuel Cell and Hydrogen (FCH) Joint Undertaking has announced the 11 regional projects that will receive funds for Project Development Assistance (PDA). Project plans include deployment of hydrogen production from wind and solar power and as an industrial by-product.…