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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…

The world’s first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine demonstrator

With the HyflexPower project, a consortium — made up of Engie Solutions (Paris, France), Siemens Gas and Power GmbH & Co. KG (Munich, Germany), Centrax Ltd. (Abbot, England), Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR; Cologne, Germany) and four European universities —…

Worley to provide EPC services for consumer-plastics-to-BTX plant in U.S.

Worley (North Sydney, Australia) will provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for Encina’s (Houston) consumer-plastics-to benzene-toluene-xylenes (BTX) processing plant in the U.S. BTX are important building blocks for a variety of widely-used products including pharmaceuticals, clothing, and glues. Regular…