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Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron and Microsoft collaborate on California bioenergy and carbon-capture project

Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron Corp., Microsoft and Clean Energy Systems announced plans to develop a ground-breaking bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) project designed to produce carbon negative power in Mendota, California. The BECCS plant will convert agricultural waste…

Linde to Supply World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Ferry

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) has been selected by Norwegian ferry operator Norled to supply liquid hydrogen and related infrastructure to the world’s first operational hydrogen-powered ferry, which will transport both cars and passengers. Linde will provide a full-service solution to…

BASF launches new tool for sorting polyamide plastic waste

TrinamiX, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), now supports the reliable differentiation between polyamide 6 (PA6) and polyamide 6.6 (PA66) with its Mobile Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Solution. Within seconds, plastic waste from the two polyamides can be sorted…

Saipem and Alboran to develop five green hydrogen plants in Italy, Albania and Morocco

Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Alboran Hydrogen have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the joint development and the construction of five plants for the production of green hydrogen through the electrolysis process, three of which in…

OMV plans to build glycerin-to-propanol pilot plant

OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) plans to build a pilot plant at its Schwechat Refinery, which will produce second-generation biofuels from 2023 using a patented process developed inhouse. The plant involves advanced biofuels that are not in competition with foodstuffs. A…

DuPont and Waterise collaborate on subsea desalination technologies

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Waterise to provide seawater reverse osmosis (RO) membranes and expertise to the company’s subsea desalination plants. Waterise is a Norwegian company with a groundbreaking and ready to go…

Gevo Selects Polynaphtha Technology and Engineering from Axens for its Net-Zero 1 Project

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) today announces that Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) selected its Polynaphtha oligomerization technology for its Net-Zero 1 project in Preston, South Dakota. Axens scope will include technology license, basic engineering, and catalyst supply for the conversion of renewable…

Haldor Topsoe to build large-scale SOEC electrolyzer manufacturing facility

Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) will invest in a manufacturing facility producing highly efficient solid oxide electrolyzers (SOEC) with a total capacity of 500 MW per year with the option to expand to 5 GW/yr. With efficiencies above 90%, Topsoe’s…

Oilon to supply heat pumps for China’s largest battery farm

Oilon Group Oy (Lahti, Finland) is to supply industrial heat pumps for a battery farm in Dalian, North-Eastern China. The electricity storage facility is currently under construction and will go online during 2021. Oilon's heat pump system will be used…

CAC builds biofuel plant for OMV in Schwechat, Austria

Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz (CAC; Chemnitz, Germany) has been assigned by OMV AG (Vienna, Austria) with overall responsibility for the construction of a biofuel plant. With this project CAC is realizing one of the first large-scale plants in Europe to use innovative…