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Phillips 66 achieves full production rates of renewable fuel at Rodeo Renewable Energy Complex

Phillips 66 (Houston) announced the full conversion of the Rodeo Renewable Energy Complex, expanding commercial-scale production and positioning the company as a leader in renewable fuels. The Rodeo facility in the San Francisco Bay Area increased rates to approximately 50,000…

Wood awarded contract for hydrogen-storage preparation in the North Sea

Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been awarded a contract by Centrica Energy Storage (CES) for the redevelopment of the U.K.’s Rough field in readiness for future hydrogen storage. The Rough reservoir, located in the Southern North Sea, has been used…

Covestro to deploy Rondo Energy heat battery in Germany

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) is partnering with Rondo Energy, Inc. (Oakland, Calif.) to install an innovative heat battery for the first time: The Rondo Heat Battery stores intermittent renewable electricity and delivers continuous high-temperature steam, thus offers a sustainable alternative…

INEOS commissions new pilot production line for recyclable flexible-packaging films

INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe says it has become the first polymer producer in the world to successfully commission a new pilot line that it will work with customers to co-develop recyclable flexible packaging films. The multi-million Euro investment could…

Trinseo opens PMMA depolymerization facility in Italy

Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) announced the opening of its polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) depolymerization facility in Rho, Italy. “We are thrilled about the opening of our depolymerization facility, which will help advance our goal to support a circular economy,” said Francesca Reverberi,…

Dow and Fiori Group to collaborate on recycling materials from end-of-life vehicles

Dow (Midland, Mich.) and Fiori Group, a company that collects, stores and processes ferrous and non-ferrous materials,  announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate in the development of a new ecosystem for recycling end-of-life (EOL) parts…

Lhyfe awarded grant for green-hydrogen project in Trelleborg, Sweden

Lhyfe (Paris, France) received a grant of up to SEK 125.6m (around €11 million) from Klimatklivet, an investment program supported by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, to build a local renewable hydrogen production system in Trelleborg, the southernmost city in…

Elkem to pilot CO2-free silicon production with support from Enova

Elkem ASA (Oslo, Norway) is researching a new concept for silicon production, which aims to eliminate nearly all direct CO2 emissions. The concept involves capturing and recycling the carbon in the process off gas and reusing it in the production…

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Facts At Your Fingertips: Hydrogen Production Methods and End-use Markets

Current hydrogen demand is dominated by petroleum refining and fertilizer production, and is supplied largely by fossil-fuel-based steam-methane reforming (SMR). Increasingly, however, demand for hydrogen will come from the energy transition, and will be supplied by a more diverse range…

Technip Energies acquires technology from Shell to accelerate bio-based polyester production

Technip Energies (Paris; www.ten.com) and Shell Catalysts & Technologies (Houston; www.shell.com) announce a technology transfer agreement which accelerates the commercialization of Technip Energies’ Bio-2-GlycolsTM technology for bio-based Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) production from glucose. MEG is traditionally produced using fossil-based…