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Hydrogen-enabled recovery of raw materials from ‘red mud’ and other metallurgical waste

Bauxite residue (red mud) is a byproduct from the smelting of aluminum. Like other waste slags from the metallurgy industry, bauxite residue is traditionally put into hazardous-waste landfills, although it contains a mixture of valuable raw materials in low concentrations.…

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Solvent-based regeneration of granular activated carbon

Granular activated carbon (GAC) can be used to remove polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from groundwater and drinking water, but current methods to regenerate spent GAC are costly and require high temperatures of greater than 1,000°C. A team of scientists at Battelle…

Lotte Fine Chemicals receives world’s first shipment of blue ammonia from Sabic

Lotte Fine Chemicals (LFC) received the world’s first commercial shipment of 25,000 metric tons of independently certified clean (blue) ammonia from SABIC Agri-Nutrients (SABIC AN) and Saudi Aramco (Aramco). The shipment, dispatched from King Fahad Industrial Port at Jubail, Saudi…

Lummus to provide digitalization services to Zhangzhou Chimei Chemical

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced it has been awarded a contract by Zhangzhou CHIMEI Chemical Co. Ltd. for digitalization services at their petrochemical facility in Gulei, Fujian Province, China. "This award builds on the previous technology license Lummus provided to CHIMEI…

Entegris to build manufacturing center in Colorado Springs

Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) announced plans to build a new manufacturing center of excellence in Colorado Springs. The new facility expands Entegris’ significant presence in Colorado and enhances its ability to meet the needs of its customers as the semiconductor…

Iberdrola to construct €1-billion green hydrogen and methanol plant in Tasmania

Iberdrola Australia and hydrogen developer ABEL Energy will build a green hydrogen and green methanol production plant at Bell Bay in northern Tasmania (Australia). The project, called Bell Bay Powerfuels, is backed by the Australian government and will involve an…

Technip Energies awarded ethylene cracker contract by Chevron Phillips Chemical and QatarEnergy

Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a contract for the supply of proprietary cracking furnaces for the 2,000,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) ethane cracker for the Golden Triangle Polymers project, a joint venture between Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC…

Umicore and Nano One enter joint development agreement for battery materials process technology

Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) and Nano One Materials Corp. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) announced the signing of a non-exclusive Joint Development Agreement (JDA) on production process technologies for cathode active materials (CAM) for lithium-ion batteries. Under the agreement, Umicore will evaluate…

Lummus crude-to-chemicals technology set to deploy in first commercial deployment with S-Oil

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that its licensed TC2C crude-to-chemicals technology will move forward in its first commercial deployment through S-Oil's Shaheen Project in South Korea. S-Oil recently confirmed its final investment decision on the Shaheen Project. Once complete, Shaheen will be…

Altana acquires stake in Germany startup focused on printing electronics

Altana AG (Wesel, Germany) has acquired a stake in the tech startup Saralon. The young company specializes in the development of inks for printing electronics. In addition, it offers prefabricated electronic components that enable printers to quickly build capacities for…