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Tpgroup announces contracts related to hydrogen safety and CCUS

tpgroup (Reading, U.K.) has secured a contract worth approximately £1.0 million with a leading UK engineering company to provide management control equipment for enhanced safety management of hydrogen gas. Under this contract, tpgroup will qualify the design concepts, build and…

Germany’s Westküste 100 green-hydrogen project secures funding

Ørsted Group A/S (Fredericia, Denmark) announced that the partners of the Westküste 100 project received funding confirmation from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy as the first large-scale hydrogen project in Germany within the Reallabor (real-world laboratory)…

Yokogawa establishes global bioeconomy business in Switzerland

Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo) has established Yokogawa Innovation Switzerland GmbH to build a strong base for its bioeconomy business through the provision of quick and proactive market research and development activities, and the introduction of cutting-edge biotechnologies. Business operations of…

Busch Vacuum provides compressor solution for wastewater-treatment optimization

Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems announced that it has provided Mink claw compressor technology to help optimize the separation efficiency of sand as well as grease and oils for a sand trap at a wastewater treatment facility in Poppenweiler, a…

SUEZ to provide waste-management services for 20 Arkema sites in France

Building on their 12-year partnership, Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) and SUEZ (Paris, France), are renewing their contract for the next three years, for a total of €38 million revenue. SUEZ will manage and recover around 60,000 tons of waste per…

Mitsubishi Chemical acquires two carbon-fiber recycling companies in Germany

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) recently decided to acquire two German carbon-fiber recycling companies, CFK Valley Stade Recycling GmbH & Co. KG (CFK) and carboNXT GmbH (carboNXT), through its subsidiary Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials AG (MCAM; Zurich, Switzerland), as a…

Microsoft and Power Innovations achieve green-hydrogen milestone

Hydrogen power is gaining ground quickly in many applications, and recent breakthroughs have proven its efficacy in datacenter use. Power Innovations (American Fork, Utah) and Microsoft recently announced  a breakthrough in renewable energy: hydrogen fuel cells were successfully used to…

BASF calculates CO2 emissions footprint for all products

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has become the first chemical company to provide transparent emission data for the entire portfolio of approximately 45,000 products. BASF will provide its customers with total values of CO2 emissions, so called “carbon footprints” for all…

CE Voices: Improving Plastics Recyclability

In this edition of CE Voices, Chemical Engineering  Senior Associate Editor Mary Page Bailey sits down with Alan Schrob of NOVA Chemicals to discuss the company's development of a new polyethylene resin aimed at improving the recyclability of plastic films…

Consortium to evaluate green-hydrogen industrial cluster in Portugal

Portuguese energy company Galp joins EDP, Martifer, REN, Vestas and several other European partners to assess the feasibility of the H2 Sines project, which aims to implement an industrial cluster for green hydrogen production based in Sines. The project has…