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Maire awarded pre-FEED contract for Engie biomethane project
MAIRE S.p.A. announced that its Sustainable Technology Solutions business unit, Nextchem, through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has been awarded a new contract by Engie S.A. (La Défense, Courbevoie, France) to carry out a PRE-FEED for the gasification and methanation of the…
Bloom Energy and SK ecoplant Collaborate on a major hydrogen project for Korea Southern Power
South Korea-based SK ecoplant and Bloom Energy Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) announced a sale of Bloom’s electrolyzer technology to deploy hydrogen as an energy source in a large-scale green hydrogen demonstration with the Korea Southern Power Co., Ltd (KOSPO) and…
Petrofac delivering FEED for Aramis CCS project in the Netherlands
Petrofac Ltd. (St. Helier, U.K.) has begun a multi-million-dollar front-end-engineering design (FEED) for the Netherlands’ flagship carbon transport and storage (CCS) system, Aramis. The development marks a significant step towards achieving the European Union’s decarbonisation targets announced in the European Green…
TechnipFMC awarded contract by Petrobras for subsea carbon-capture project
TechnipFMC (Houston) has been awarded a major integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation (iEPCI) contract by Petrobras to deliver the Mero 3 HISEP project, which uses subsea processing to capture carbon dioxide-rich dense gases and then inject them into the…
AGC Biologics to build one of Japan’s largest biomanufacturing sites in Yokohama
AGC Biologics Inc. (Bothell, Wash.) announced plans to construct a new manufacturing facility at AGC Inc.’s Yokohama Technical Center in Japan. The new site is a part of the company's strategic growth strategy to create more high-quality pharmaceutical development and…
Metso to build ferrochrome plant for FACOR in India
Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) and Ferro Alloys Corp. Ltd. (FACOR), part of Vedanta, have agreed on the design and delivery of a ferrochrome plant for FACOR’s expansion project in Bhadrak, Odisha, in India. The contract value of approximately EUR 80…
Water-cooled servomotors for extreme dynamic requirements
The AM8300 servomotors expand this company’s portfolio to include a modular motor series with integrated water cooling (photo). Due to the efficient cooling, an extremely high power density is achieved, so that a rated power of up to 40 kW…
Digital service significantly reduces compressed-air costs
The Monitoring Box FTMg Premium (photo) is a new digital service for compressed-air monitoring. In addition to continuous monitoring, the Cloud solution from this company’s Field Analytics Portfolio can identify consumption losses due to machine- or process-related inefficiencies and detect…
Facts At Your Fingertips: Metal-Organic Frameworks: Industrial Applications
Metal-organic framework materials (MOFs) have garnered considerable attention as candidate materials for a number of applications, such as gas storage, molecular separation and catalysis, because their organic and inorganic components are highly tunable at the molecular level. Since being introduced…
Corrosion Prevention for Heating and Cooling Systems
Understanding that viable strategies exist to protect essential cooling and heating systems from corrosion is a crucial step in ensuring proper asset protection Several years ago, a manufacturing plant was forced to unexpectedly shut down one of its main production…