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Asahi Kasei holds opening ceremony for sewage-biogas purification demonstration plant

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) and Kurashiki City held a grand opening ceremony for a biogas purification system in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The system uses Asahi Kasei’s CO2 separation/recovery technology utilizing zeolites installed at a sewage treatment plant. The goal…

Evonik to construct pilot plant to produce anion-exchange membranes for green-hydrogen production

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is building a pilot plant in Marl, Germany, for the production of its  anion exchange membrane (AEM), marketed under the name DURAION. A central element in AEM water electrolysis, DURAION membranes support the cost-competitive production…

ENEOS and Mitsubishi to begin FEED work for new SAF production plant

ENEOS Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp. (MC; both Tokyo) have agreed to jointly conduct a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) to advance the study of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production facility at the ENEOS Wakayama Plant in Arida City, Japan. ENEOS…

Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s carbon-capture and green-ammonia technologies selected for fertilizer production in Egypt

Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) has been selected by MOPCO – Misr Fertilizers Production Company (Egypt) – to supply advanced technology for three existing ammonia and urea plants in Damietta, Egypt, to enhance the sustainability of their production. Using an…

Electrochemistry as a driver of decarbonization in the chemicals sector

Despite the urgent need for decarbonization of industrial processes, carbon dioxide emissions from the industrial-scale manufacture of chemicals often prove difficult to abate and are on track to increase over the next decade. Some industrial sectors, such as power generation…

POET and Tallgrass collaborate on carbon-capture project at Nebraska bioprocessing plant

POET LLC, the world’s largest producer of biofuels, and Tallgrass, a leading infrastructure company, announced that they have entered into definitive agreements to connect POET’s Fairmont, Nebraska bioprocessing facility to the Tallgrass Trailblazer carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline. Under the arrangement,…

OMV Petrom starts construction of sustainable fuels production unit at Petrobrazi Refinery

OMV Petrom S.A. (Bucharest, Romania) announced the start of construction for a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (HVO) production unit at the Petrobrazi refinery. This new facility will position OMV Petrom as the first major producer of sustainable…

Wood awarded FEED contract for green hydrogen facility in Rotterdam

Wood plc (Aberdeen, U.K.) has been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) scope for the Zeevonk hydrogen facility, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The hydrogen plant will be powered by offshore wind and floating offshore solar from the Zeevonk offshore developments. The…

Four Covestro sites in the U.S. now running entirely on renewable electricity

Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) announced that four of its U.S. sites have reached net-zero Scope 2 electricity emissions through the allocation of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). This achievement is a result of Covestro's existing virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) with…

Blue Whale Materials partners with Call2Recycle to advance lithium-ion battery recycling in North America

Blue Whale Materials (BWM; Bartlesville, Okla.), a leader in lithium-ion battery recycling, announced a strategic partnership today with Call2Recycle, the leading battery stewardship organization in North America. As a result of the partnership, Blue Whale Materials’ state-of-the-art sorting and recycling…