Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH (CAC; Chemnitz, Germany; www.cac-chem.de) has successfully completed a water electrolysis plant at the RWE site in Niederaussem, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, as part of the international, globally unique research project ALIGN-CCUS. The goal of this project is to…
Nuberg EPC (New Delhi, India) has been awarded the prestigious 500 ton/d sulfuric acid plant project on EPC & LSTK basis in Egypt. The project, which was awarded during the pandemic, is owned by Sprea Misr, a leading chemicals and…
thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers GmbH's (Dortmund, Germany) Green Hydrogen product division has been awarded an engineering contract in order to install an 88 MW water electrolysis plant for Canadian energy company Hydro-Québec after successfully completing a feasibility study. Hydro-Québec, a…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) and Proton Ventures B.V. have announced a successful startup of the first TertiNOx catalyst reference at Kavala Fertilizers, one of the largest nitric acid producers in Greece. Topsoe has supplied both catalyst and basic engineering…
Total S.A. (Paris) and Engie S.A. (La Défense, Courbevoie, both France) have signed a cooperation agreement to design, develop, build and operate the Masshylia project, France's largest renewable hydrogen production site at Châteauneuf-les-Martigues in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur South region. Located…
Green ammonia, produced from renewable energy, is an excellent fuel and fertilizer that can potentially replace significant volumes of fossil fuels and help accelerate the transition to a world powered by renewable energy. A partnership of industry leaders now announces…
Germany's energy company STEAG GmbH (Essen), steel producer thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg) and electrolysis specialist thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers (Dortmund) are working on a joint feasibility study. The study deals with the construction of a water electrolysis plant at…
Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minn.), IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and Axens (both Rueil-Malmason, France) are joining forces to further develop and scale bio-based acrylic acid. The collaboration leverages Cargill’s experience with bio-based materials, IFPEN’s expertise in the field of catalyst and…
Johnson Matthey (JM; London, U.K.) has secured a multiple licence win for China’s Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group’s latest project to develop five of the largest single-train methanol plants in the world. Located at Baofeng’s Ordos City complex in Inner Mongolia,…
Climeworks (Zurich, Switzerland) continues to make large-scale carbon dioxide removal a reality. “Orca” is the name of Climeworks’ new direct air capture plant in Iceland. It will take carbon dioxide removal to the next level: it combines Climeworks' direct air…