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Sulzer and VTT collaborating to commercialize polystyrene recycling

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Sswitzerland) is strengthening its technology offering for chemical polymer recycling by joining forces with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT; Helsinki, Finland). The exclusive collaboration will support the commercialization of comprehensive polystyrene (PS) recycling solutions…

Repsol announces renewable hydrogen hub is underway in Galacia, Spain

Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain), Naturgy and Reganosa are joining forces to develop a renewable hydrogen production center in Galicia, Spain. The project involves the installation of an electrolysis plant powered by 100% renewable energy on the grounds of the former…

Port of Antwerp’s CO2 export hub awarded funding from E.U. Commission

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris), Fluxys Belgium and Port of Antwerp-Bruges were awarded €144.6 million from the E.U. Commission under the Connecting Europe Facility for Energy (CEF-E) funding program. The funding is earmarked for the construction of shared CO2 transport and…

Cummins to provide 35-MW electrolyzer for Linde’s Niagara Falls hydrogen plant

Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) will supply a 35-megawatt (MW) proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer system for Linde’s new hydrogen production plant in Niagara Falls, New York. Once commissioned, Cummins’ electrolyzer system will power Linde’s largest green hydrogen plant in the…

Vision Energy and Linde Engineering to collaborate on Green Energy Terminal in the Netherlands

Vision Energy Corp. (Jersey City, N.J.) is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Linde Engineering for expanding scope and further cooperation in regards to Vision Energy’s pioneering Green Energy Terminal in North Sea Port…

Metso Outotec invests in pilot plant for a hydrogen-based direct reduction process

Metso Outotec (Helsinki, Finland) will convert its existing 700 mm Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) pilot plant in Frankfurt, Germany, for hydrogen-based direct reduction of fine ore, applying the proven Planet Positive Circored technology. The pilot plant can also be used…

CropEnergies to build renewable ethyl acetate plant in Germany

CropEnergies AG (Mannheim, Germany) will build a plant for the production of renewable ethyl acetate from sustainable ethanol. Foreseen location is the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park, Elsteraue, Germany. The supervisory board of CropEnergies has given the green light to…

Air Products and AES to build first mega-scale green hydrogen facility in Texas

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and The AES Corp. (Arlington, Va.) announced plans to invest approximately $4 billion to build, own and operate a green hydrogen production facility in Wilbarger County, Texas. This mega-scale renewable power to hydrogen project includes…

Bechtel, Siemens and Topsoe to provide FEED services for HIF Matagorda eFuels Facility

E-fuels company HIF Global (Houston) announced that its subsidiary HIF USA LLC  has engaged Bechtel Energy, Siemens Energy, and Topsoe to conduct the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a facility to be constructed in Matagorda County, Texas to produce…

Snam and Baker Hughes complete hydrogen-powered turbine demonstration in Italy

Snam (Milan, Italy) and Baker Hughes (Houston) successfully completed a series of tests aimed at experimenting with the use of hydrogen as a fuel to power gas turbines, at one of its natural gas compression stations in Istrana, Italy. The…