ExxonMobil Corp. (Houston) announced the successful startup of its new polypropylene production unit at the Polyolefins Plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The unit increases polypropylene production capacity along the Gulf Coast by 450,000 metric tons per year, meeting growing demand…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) announced that earlier this year it demonstrated the successful start-up of the first ethanol-to-ethylene pilot plant based on Axens Atol technology with Sumitomo Chemical, which is going on the waste-to-polyolefins project in Japan. At full rollout, this…
RWE AG (Essen, Germany) and Hyphen Hydrogen Energy Ltd. (Hyphen) have signed a memorandum of understanding that could see RWE offtake up to 300,000 tons of green ammonia per year from Namibia. Hyphen was appointed preferred bidder by the Namibian…
EverWind Fuels Co. has selected Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.) to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for its green hydrogen and ammonia production and storage facility in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, with initial commercial operations planned for 2025.…
Itochu Corp. (Toyko), Teijin Ltd. (Toyko) and JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) plan to establish a joint venture company, RePEaT Co., Ltd. to license technology for the chemical recycling of polyester products. The new joint venture will use a chemical-recycling technology…
On this episode of the CE Podcast, guest Kraig Kmiotek, Product Manager for Process Analytics at Metrohm USA, discusses the connections between the digital transformation of Industry 4.0 and inline/online process analysis. Among other things, Kraig discusses best practices and…
Cepsa (Madrid, Spain) will invest more than €3 billion to establish the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley, creating the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe in southern Spain. The project, part of Cepsa’s 2030 strategy Positive Motion, will contribute to Europe's…
Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) is strengthening its collaboration with Blue Planet to continue developing their highly innovative carbon capture and storage (CCUS) technology. The two companies are working together to commercialize a ground-breaking mineralization process that permanently sequesters carbon…
This year marks Chemical Engineering’s 120th anniversary. At this extraordinary milestone, I paused to look into the history of the publication and its evolution to where we are now. The magazine evolved, changing its name to reflect changes and combinations…
Technip Energies (Prais) has been awarded a contract by TotalEnergies for the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) at Grandpuits platform in France. This contract covers the Engineering, Procurement services and Construction assistance (EPsCa) for the conversion of the Grandpuits…