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Vitol partners with Wastefront to market liquid hydrocarbons made from recycled tires

Vitol (Geneva, Switzerland)and Wastefront AS, the Norwegian waste tire recycling company, announced a 10-year offtake agreement for the production of liquid hydrocarbons and certain non-liquid products due to be produced at Wastefront’s first waste tire recycling plant in Sunderland, on…

Cummins to open new H2 fuel-cell production facility in Germany

Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.) announced it will open a new facility in Herten, Germany, which will initially focus on the assembly of fuel cell systems for global transportation leader Alstom’s hydrogen trains.   The company already has alternative power facilities located…

Black & Veatch joins Ammonia Energy Association

Black & Veatch (B&V; Overland Park, Kan.) has joined the Ammonia Energy Association, an influential advocate of responsible ammonia use in a sustainable energy economy. As an industry leader in advancing decarbonization, Black & Veatch – experts in ammonia-related projects…

Total to use Honeywell UOP technology to produce renewable fuels at its zero-crude platform in France

Honeywell International (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Total SE (Paris) will use Honeywell UOP Ecofining process technology to produce renewable fuels, primarily for the aviation industry, at its Grandpuits platform at Seine-et-Marne in north central France. Honeywell UOP will provide technology…

Covestro starts up pilot plant for new MDI production process

A significant breakthrough in the production of the rigid foam component MDI (methylene diphenyl diisocyanate)for the energy-efficient insulation of buildings and refrigeration devices: Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) has successfully put into operation a pilot plant based on the innovative AdiP…

INL and Xcel Energy join forces for hydrogen-production project in Minnesota

Xcel Energy (Minneapolis, Minn.) will work with Idaho National Laboratory (INL; Idaho Falls) to demonstrate a system that uses a nuclear plant’s steam and electricity to split water. The resulting hydrogen will initially be used at the power plant, but…

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…