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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…

Sasol achieves beneficial operations at Lake Charles LDPE unit

Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) announced that its low-density polyethlyene (LDPE) unit reached beneficial operation on 15 November 2020. The LDPE unit is the seventh and final Lake Charles Chemicals Project (LCCP) unit to come online. The LCCP is now…

Lummus Technology awarded contract for Shandong Yulong Refining and Petrochemical integrated project

Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a technology contract by Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China's Nanshan Group. Lummus will provide Master Licensor services for multiple licensed units, consisting of two mixed feed crackers,…

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).…

Composites specialists Mar-Bal AltraSet and Lattice announce merger

Composites manufacturer Mar-Bal, Inc. (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) has recently merged its AltraSet Composite Technologies company with Lattice Composites (Riverside, Calif.). The integrated merger will expand Mar-Bal’s composite technologies to now include Lattice’s customized epoxy chemistry systems–providing a unique materials portfolio…

Corning and PPG testing antimicrobial paints that kill COVID-19

Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.) announced a new breakthrough in glass-ceramic technology, Corning Guardiant. Under test methods approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), paint and coatings containing Corning Guardiant were shown to kill more than 99.9% of SARS-CoV-2, the…