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Air Liquide completes first phase of 25-MW H2 electrolysis project in Taiwan

Air Liquide S.A. (Paris) has completed the first phase of the construction of its planned 25-MW electrolysis hydrogen plants in the Tainan Technology Industrial Park in Taiwan. These plants will provide ultra-high purity hydrogen to the semiconductor industry as well…

Lotte Chemical selects Honeywell UOP technologies for phenol and acetone production

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Lotte GS Chemical Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) will use Honeywell UOP Q-Max, Phenol 3G, and Evonik MSHP technologies to produce more than 565,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of phenol and acetone at its petrochemicals…

BASF and OMV start up isobutene plant using novel direct-production technology

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) have announced the successful start-up of ISO C4 plant for direct production of high-purity isobutene at the Burghausen site. The plant is based on a novel technology developed jointly by the…

Maire Tecnimont and Adani Enterprises to develop green-hydrogen projects in India

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy), through its subsidiaries NextChem, Stamicarbon and MET Development (MET DEV), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Adani Enterprises Ltd. (AEL) to explore the development of industrial projects using NextChem and Stamicarbon’s technologies and…

Mitsubishi signs MoU to study fuel-ammonia production project in Indonesia

Mitsubishi Corp, (MC; Tokyo) is joining partners Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), a national university in the Republic of Indonesia, and PT Panca Amara Utama (PAU) in an agreement to conduct a…

BP to develop the U.K.’s largest blue-hydrogen plant

Bp plc (London) announced that it is developing plans for the UK’s largest blue hydrogen production facility, targeting 1GW of hydrogen production by 2030. The project would capture and send for storage up to two million tons of carbon dioxide…

Schlumberger New Energy developing lithium-extraction pilot plant in Nevada

Schlumberger New Energy (Houston) announced the development of a lithium extraction pilot plant through its new venture, NeoLith Energy. The deployment of the pilot plant will be in Clayton Valley, Nevada, USA. The NeoLith Energy sustainable approach uses a differentiated…

Plug Power and Chart Industries to build two hydrogen-liquefaction plants in the U.S.

Chart Industries, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.), a leading diversified global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment for the industrial gas and clean energy industries has announced that Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.), a leading provider of turnkey green hydrogen solutions has placed an…

Black & Veatch conducting feasibility studies for world’s largest green-hydrogen project

Black & Veatch (BV; Overland Park, Kan.) will undertake feasibility studies central to the development of the world’s largest green hydrogen plant. When operational, Enegix Energy’s Base One facility, in Ceará, Brazil will produce more than 600 million kg of…

Clariant opens major operational campus in Shanghai

Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) announced the official opening of its One Clariant Campus in Shanghai, China. Across a total floor space of approximately 24,000 m2, the Campus will be home to Clariant’s Greater China Operational Headquarters as well as the…