Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.), Chart Industries, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) and Baker Hughes (Houston) announced their intention to become cornerstone investors in the formation of the FiveT Hydrogen Fund, a unique, new clean-hydrogen-only private infrastructure fund dedicated to delivering clean hydrogen…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that its Novolen business has been awarded a polypropylene (PP) contract by Jin Guo Tou (Jinzhou) Petrochemical Co., Ltd. at its petrochemical facility in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, China. "We are grateful to Jin Guo Tou…
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL; Mumbai, India) signed a Sales Purchase Agreement with integrated energy company OQ (Muscat, Oman) for the purchase of BPCL’s entire stake in Bharat Oman Refineries Company Ltd, (BORL), a 7.8 million ton/yr petroleum refinery located…
Lonza AG (Basel, Switzerland) has completed the sale of its sites in Ploermel, France and Edinburgh, Scotland to Next Pharma. Gordon Bates, President and Head of Small Molecules, Lonza said: “The strategic divestment of our Ploermel and Edinburgh sites will…
As application demands evolve, battery materials have gotten more complex, incorporating not only lithium, but higher nickel, manganese and cobalt content, while also including various dopants like aluminum or zirconium and stabilizing coatings. Processing all of these disparate components into…
To maximize the service life and reliability of rotary dryers for solid materials, adhere to this set of practices Rotary dryers have a well-deserved reputation for reliability, often providing decades of trouble-free operation in solids-handling processes. As with any type…
U.S. Vanadium LLC (Hot Springs, Ark.; www.usvanadium.com) has successfully demonstrated the ability to recycle the liquid electrolyte used in vanadium redox-flow batteries (VRFB), a rapidly growing commercial technology that promises to enable intermittent renewable energy technologies, such as solar and…
A closed-loop, long-duration energy-storage system (diagram) developed by Malta, Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.; www.maltainc.com) could provide a carbon-neutral path to industrial heating. “One of the exciting facets of this technology is that it generates a lot of discharge heat. When we…
Engineering design of a demonstration plant is underway for a process that pyrolyzes natural gas into hydrogen and solid carbon. The process was developed by C-Zero Inc. (Goleta, Calif.; www.czero.energy), a company set up in 2018 to develop and commercialize…
Last month, Amarillo Gold Corp. (Toronto, Canada; www.amarillogold.com) selected Metso Outotec’s (Helsinki, Finland; www.mogroup.com) modular FIT Station for its Posse Gold greenfield mining project in the state of Goiás in central Brazil. This will be the first commercial installation of…