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Técnicas Reunidas leading research project aimed at valorization of steel and iron waste using renewable H2

Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) has announced its participation in the HYMET project to promote the valorization of waste from the iron and steel sector with renewable hydrogen.  The HYMET project aims to study new technologies applicable in the…

Plans underway for Swedish clean-hydrogen hub

Everfuel A/S is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Karlstads Energi for a collaboration on developing a hydrogen hub in Karlstad, Sweden. The two parties plan to explore the commercial and technical feasibility of…

Mitsui Chemicals bolsters bio-based feedstock portfolio with investment in Apeiron Bioenergy

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) announced its investment in Apeiron AgroCommodities Pte. Ltd., rebranded and known as Apeiron Bioenergy (Singapore) in June 2022. Apeiron Bioenergy is one of the largest collectors and sellers of used cooking oil in Southeast Asia and…

Yara and Northern Lights announce decarbonization milestone

Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway) and Northern Lights have signed the world’s first commercial agreement on cross-border CO2 transport and storage. This is groundbreaking for the decarbonization of European heavy industry, opening the market for cross border CO2 transport and…

Electrolyzer manufacturer Ohmium announces collaboration with Shell

Ohmium International, a green hydrogen company that designs, manufactures, and deploys PEM electrolyzers, is collaborating with Shell India to evaluate hydrogen applications, markets, and project opportunities in India and globally. As part of the collaboration, both parties have intent to…

Silicate-rock-based material can replace flyash in cement, lowering costs and CO2

Flyash, a waste byproduct from coal burning, has been used effectively as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) in Portland cement to displace a portion of the cement and lower the CO2 emissions associated with cement making. But because coal burning…

Energy costs cut by 50% for high-strength aluminum alloys

Aluminum alloy 7075 has excellent mechanical properties, including high strength for lightweighting applications, but its production process is energy intensive, which raises costs and limits its use. Now, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL; Richland, Wash.; www.pnnl.gov) have developed…

Zero-CO2 ethane cracker technology is available commercially

A next-generation ethane-feed steam cracker designed by Lummus Technology (Houston; www.lummus.com) has the ability to achieve zero carbon dioxide emissions in the production of ethylene. The zero-CO2 design utilizes Lummus SRT pyrolysis furnaces and a state-of-the-art product-recovery system. Lummus improved…

thyssenkrupp Uhde to build world-scale blue ammonia plant in Qatar

thyssenkrupp Uhde has won a new contract from its long-standing customer and QatarEnergy’s affiliate, Qatar Fertiliser Company (QAFCO), for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of a world-scale ammonia plant, capable of producing its full output as Blue Ammonia. The…

Air Products and Associated British Ports announce large-scale green-hydrogen project

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and Associated British Ports (ABP) announced their intention to partner in bringing the first large scale, green hydrogen production facility to the UK. The facility would import green ammonia from production locations operated by Air…