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Next Wave and Lummus Technology produce world’s first renewable alkylate

Lummus Technology (Houston; www.lummustechnology.com) and Next Wave Energy Partners, LP (Houston; www.nextwaveenergy.com) announced the production of the world's first renewable alkylate. This renewable alkylate, derived from ethanol and produced through a series of Lummus' technologies, is a bio-based, low carbon…

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Scaling up brine electrolysis for high-purity lithium hydroxide

A significant portion of the energy and cost requirements in the production of lithium-ion batteries stems from the cost of converting lithium sulfate or lithium chloride into lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM) of sufficient purity for battery use. Noram Electrolysis Systems,…

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Facts At Your Fingertips: Industrial Electrolysis

Industrial electrolysis involves passing a direct electric current through an electrolyte to elicit a range of chemical reactions. Electrolyzers are key pieces of technology for producing many important industrial chemicals. This one-page reference reviews the basic general operation of an…

Lithium Landscape: Activity is Charging Forward in the U.S.

Across several regions of the U.S., new lithium projects are emerging to build up a more localized supply chain Despite growing demand in the U.S. for batteries in consumer electronics and electric vehicles (EV), the vast majority of lithium extraction…

HIF Global announces e-methanol project in Brazil

HIF Global (Houston) announced its first project in Brazil, after signing a land reservation contract with Port of Açu, one of Brazil's main ports, to develop a facility to produce up to 800,000 tons per year of e-Methanol. Pursuant to…

Wood to operate and maintain world-scale plastics recycling facility in Ohio

Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been awarded a three-year contract to operate and maintain the Freepoint Eco-Systems plant in Hebron, Ohio. The flagship facility spans 25 acres, utilizing a 260,000 square foot warehouse, making it one of the largest advanced…

DOE Announces $15 million federal funding to develop new systems for clean hydrogen production

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced up to $15 million in federal funding to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Specifically,…

Worley providing pre-FEED for Liquid Wind e-methanol facility

Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) announced that it has entered into an agreement with Liquid Wind (Gothenburg, Sweden) to provide design and engineering services for the development of the NorthStarH2 e-methanol facility in Östersund, Sweden. Worley previously was awarded a…

Woodland Biofuels investing $1.35 billion for RNG and green-hydrogen project in Louisiana

Woodland Biofuels Inc. (Toronto, Ont., Canada) announced a planned $1.35-billion investment at the Port of South Louisiana to establish what is said to be the world's largest carbon-negative renewable natural-gas plant and  ultra-green hydrogen facility.  Phase 1 of this project…

Kemira and IFF complete renewable polymers plant in Finland

As part of their strategic cooperation in providing new renewable alternatives to fossil-based products, Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland) and International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF; New York) announced successful completion of a market-entry-scale industrial polymer plant. The unit is capable of…