Linde Engineering (Pullach, Germany) has announced its involvement with two green-hydrogen projects in Germany — REFHYNE II at Shell's Rheinland Energy and Chemicals Park and RWE's 14-MW pilot electrolysis facility located in Lingen, part of the Get H2 Nukleus project.…
Hystar AS (Høvik, Norway) has awarded German industrial engineering company thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering with the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for the supply of Hystar’s automated electrolyzer manufacturing line for its GW factory in Høvik, Norway. The contract marks a…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced a purchase agreement for its low-carbon intensity fuel blendstock with Shell Global Solutions Deutschland GmbH for use in motorsports. Gevo’s renewable blendstock is suitable for premium motorsport fuels, demonstrating that sustainability and peak performance belong…
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT; Espoo, Finland; www.vttresearch.com) announces a new initiative to address the challenges of energy and resource consumption in the forestry and textile industry. The goal of the Energy First initiative is to…
Infinium (Sacramento, Calif.) and Borealis Group (Vienna, Austria) have entered into an agreement to enable the production of low-carbon-footprint plastics generated from waste carbon dioxide emissions that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. These plastics, known as polyolefins, are…
thyssenkrupp Steel Europe (Duisburg, Germany) is scaling up its research activities in the field of low-carbon steel production to include a cooperation with BlueScope Steel. The focus of this cooperation is on the smelting units, which form a core component…
LanzaTech Global Inc. (Chicago, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com), the carbon recycling company transforming waste carbon into sustainable fuels, chemicals, and materials, and LanzaJet, Inc., a leading sustainable fuels technology company and fuels producer, recently announced a new project with Australia’s Wagner Sustainable…
Neste (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) is expanding its logistics infrastructure for liquefied recycled raw materials at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland, including materials such as liquefied waste plastic and liquefied rubber tires. This lays the foundation to handling larger amounts of…
CAMX Power LLC (Lexington, Mass.; www.camxpower.com) and Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd. (www.panosonic.com/global/energy), a Panasonic Group Company, announced today that Panasonic Energy has taken a license from CAMX to the latest GEMX® platform of cathode active material for lithium-ion batteries.…
The following titles are recently published books that may be relevant for professionals in the chemical process industries (CPI): Fundamentals and Practice in Statistical Thermodynamics. By Jianzhong Wu and John Prausnitz. Wiley and Sons Publishing, 2024, 768 pages, $149.95. Rare…