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Avient opens plastics-recycling innovation center in Italy

Avient Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio; formerly PolyOne) has officially opened its new CycleWorks facility in Pogliano, Italy. The new lab and plant will conduct cutting edge chemistry testing and evaluations to help customers tackle and overcome the challenge of plastics recycling…

Preem begins producing renewable diesel at Lysekil refinery

For the first time, renewable raw materials are being converted to Swedish Environmental Class 1 diesel at Preem AB’s (Stockholm, Sweden) refinery in Lysekil, Sweden. The aim is to annually produce up to 950,000 cubic meters of renewable fuel by…

Total and Adnoc sign framework agreement related to carbon capture and emissions reduction

Total SE (Paris, France) signed a strategic framework agreement with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), to explore joint research, development and deployment partnership opportunities in the areas of CO2 emission reductions and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).…

Linde and Evonik jointly launch technology for separating hydrogen and natural gas

Currently, there is growing interest in the prospect of using the existing natural gas infrastructure more extensively to transport hydrogen (H2) – green H2 in particular. Numerous initiatives have already been launched around the world in order to develop enabling…

Repsol selects Axens’ technology for advanced biofuels plant

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) announced that Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) has selected Axens Vegan technology for its first production plant for advanced biofuels in Spain at its Cartagena refinery. This new plant will be capable of producing 250,000 metric tons per year…

Maire Tecnimont’s NextChem launches dedicated waste-to-chemicals subsidiary

NextChem, the group company focused on the global energy transition of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com), has launched MyRechemical, a new subsidiary entirely dedicated to chemical valorization of non-recyclable plastics and “Waste to Chemical” processes. Thanks to this additional…

Open-access CCUS simulator developed by LLNL, Stanford and Total

After more than two years of joint research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Total and Stanford University  are releasing an open-source, high-performance simulator for large-scale geological carbon dioxide (CO2) storage. The GEOSX simulator will enable researchers around the world to…

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction wins EPC contract to build South Korea’s first hydrogen liquefaction plant

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it had signed an EPC contract and investment agreement for the Changwon Hydrogen Liquefaction Project, Korea’s first hydrogen liquefaction plant, with Gyeongnam Province, Changwon City, Changwon Industry Promotion Agency (CWIP),…

BP and Ørsted to develop green-hydrogen project in Germany

BP plc (London) and Ørsted A/S (Fredericia, Denmark) have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to work together to develop a ‎project for industrial-scale production of green hydrogen – a significant step in developing ‎bp’s hydrogen business. Green hydrogen is…

Praj inaugurates compressed-biogas demonstration plant

Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India) has inaugurated a demonstration plant that deploys innovative technology for the production of Compressed Biogas (CBG). Located in the Praj Matrix R&D campus, the plant deploys Praj’s technology which utilizes a proprietary microbial consortium made…