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BASF begins commercial-scale MOF production to support Svante carbon-capture technology

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that it is the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) on a production scale of several hundred tons per year. MOFs are highly crystalline structures with nanometer-sized pores and a large surface area. This…

Thyssenkrupp nucera to supply electrolyzers to Neste’s Porvoo refinery

thyssenkrupp nucera (Dortmund, Germany) and Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) plan to collaborate on a project to incorporate a 120 megawatt (MW) water electrolyzer into Neste’s Porvoo refinery in Finland. Neste, the leading global producer of sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel…

KBR technology selected for green ammonia project in Portugal

KBR, Inc. (Houston) announced that its K-GreeN technology has been selected by Madoqua Power2X (Madoqua), a joint venture of Madoqua Renewables, Power2X and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, for Madoqua’s green ammonia project at Sines Industrial Zone in Portugal.  Under the terms…

Topsoe and Aramco to set up a low-carbon hydrogen demonstration plant in Saudi Arabia

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) have annoucned a new collaboration to demonstrate the eREACT technology for the production of low-carbon hydrogen (or blue hydrogen). Topsoe’s eREACT technology is a groundbreaking technology platform for production of low-carbon…

Samsung Engineering and Svante to collaborate on industrial carbon capture projects

Samsung Engineering (Seoul, South Korea) and Svante, Inc. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada) announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate to identify, develop, and deliver commercial carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects in Asia and the…

Technip Energies awarded contracts for Galp’s biofuel and green hydrogen project

Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded Engineering, Procurement Services and Construction Management (EPsCm) contracts by Galp for an advanced biofuels unit and a green hydrogen unit for its Sines refinery in Portugal. Both projects are part of Galp’s program to…

Repsol starts up green hydrogen electrolyzer at Petronor complex

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) has begun producing renewable hydrogen at its Petronor industrial center (Biscay, Spain). The 2.5 MW electrolyzer can generate 350 tons per year of renewable hydrogen for industrial use, mainly in the refinery, as a raw material…

Bekaert and Toshiba sign Memorandum of Understanding to develop global partnership around MEA for PEM electrolysis

Bekaert and Toshiba Corp.'s energy arm, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS), are accelerating their growth strategies in renewable energy markets, particularly in green hydrogen production utilizing Hydrogen Production Technology with Reduced Iridium developed by Toshiba. Recently Yves…

Petronas Chemicals to build Asia’s largest advanced recycling plant in Malaysia

Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) has reached the final investment decision (FID) to construct Asia’s largest advanced chemical recycling plant with a capacity of 33,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). The plant which will be located in…

Revalyu Resources breaks ground on its advanced PET recycling facility in the U.S.

Revalyu Resources GmbH (Kleinostheim, Germany), Heraeus Group, and the Development Authority of Bulloch County were joined by state and local officials to celebrate revalyu breaking ground on their first advanced PET (polyethylene terephthalate) recycling facility in America located at Gateway…