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Petrofac awarded FEED contract for TotalEnergies CCS project in the Netherlands

Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) announced that its Consulting team in Woking, U.K. has strengthened its position in supporting the Netherlands’ ambitions for CO2 capture and storage (CCS) with an award from TotalEnergies EP Nederland BV of multi-million-dollar front-end-engineering design…

Masdar and TotalEnergies to develop a commercial methanol-to-SAF project in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar, has signed an agreement with TotalEnergies (Paris) to assess the viability of developing a commercial green hydrogen to methanol to SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) project. The focus of the project is to…

KBR technology selected for Avina Clean Hydrogen’s SAF project

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that Avina Clean Hydrogen Inc. has selected KBR's sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, PureSAF, for its project in the US. Developed by Swedish Biofuels, PureSAF technology is exclusively licensed by KBR worldwide. Under the terms of…

Indorama Ventures joins the T-REX Project to accelerate textile recycling

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited has announced its participation in the groundbreaking T-REX (Textile Recycling Excellence) Project. This initiative aims to establish a harmonized European blueprint for the closed-loop sorting and recycling of household textile waste to help the fashion…

Verbio starts up ethanol production at biorefinery in Iowa

Verbio has commenced the commercial production of corn-based ethanol at its biorefinery facility in Nevada, Iowa. The plant, a subsidiary of Europe's leading biofuels and bioenergy producer Verbio SE, underwent a thorough commissioning process over the past six months resulting…

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Public-Private Partnerships Spur Decarbonization Efforts

Government programs, such as the Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP) in the U.S., are helping to advance commercial-scale decarbonization strategies including thermal energy storage, CO2 utilization and electrification As the world continues to grapple with climate change, companies’ strategies for managing…

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Chemical Recycling: A Deep Dive on Depolymerization

Looking at the challenges and benefits of various recycling technologies, this article uses polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) as an example to analyze the economics and design considerations for depolymerization processes Plastics are a valuable commodity in society and provide versatile materials…

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Pilot plant produces climate-friendly cement clinker

Concrete production is responsible for 6–9% of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions. “The largest contribution to that comes from the production of cement, a precursor product,” says Peter Stemmermann from the Institute for Technical Chemistry (ITC) at the Karlsruhe Institute of…

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Cyanobacteria mineralize CO2 into biogenic construction materials

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS; www.ikts.fraunhofer.de) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP; both Dresden, Germany; www.fep.fraunhofer.de) are introducing an eco-friendly, biologically induced method of producing biogenic construction materials as…

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A proof-of-concept “BionicHydrogenBattery”

At a press conference during Achema 2024, Festo SE & Co. KG (Esslingen, Germany; www.festo.com) presented the BionicHydrogenBattery — a new concept for the simple storage and safe transportation of hydrogen. Currently, H2 can only be stored and transported safely…