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Facts At Your Fingertips: Battery Chemistries for Stationary Energy Storage

Storing energy to smooth the intermittency of wind and solar power can be accomplished in a number of ways, including mechanical (pumped hydro, flywheels, compressed air and others), thermochemical (phase-change materials and molten salts, for example), chemical (conversion of electricity…

Syzygy Plasmonics to use Honeywell UOP Fischer-Tropsch technology for SAF facility

Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.; www.honeywell.com) today announced that Syzygy Plasmonics (Houston, Tex.; www.plasmonics.tech) , a global leader in electrified biogas-to-SAF technology, will use Honeywell UOP Fischer-Tropsch (FT) UnicrackingTM technology to make sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from dairy waste and renewable energy at…

Circularix starts up commercial recycling facility in Florida

Circularix (Los Angeles, Calif.; www.circularix.com), a leading U.S.-based producer of food-grade recycled PET (rPET resin), today announced the successful completion and commercial start-up of its new recycling facility in Ocala, Fla. The site complements Circularix's flagship facility in Hatfield, Pa. and significantly expands…

Plastic Energy and SABIC announce production of first batch of TACOIL from waste plastic

Plastic Energy (London, U.K.; www.plasticenergy.com), a global leader in chemical recycling, has announced the production of its first batch of TACOIL™ at its joint venture plant with SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) in Geleen, the Netherlands. This marks a key…

TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell announce first CO2 transported from cement manufacturing area to subsea storage

TotalEnergies (Paris, France; www.totalenergies.com) and its partners, Equinor (Stavanger, Norway; www.equinor.com) and Shell (London, U.K.; www.shell.com), announce that the first CO2 volumes were successfully transported by vessel from Heidelberg Materials’ cement factory in Brevik, Norway to Northern Lights’ facilities in Øygarden.…

Velocys and Sekisui Chemical sign MoU for e-SAF production technology

Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (Osaka City, Japan; www.sekisuichemical.com) and Velocys Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.velocys.com) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) establishing a strategic partnership to advance production technology for electro-Sustainable Aviation Fuel (e-SAF), a CO2-derived synthetic fuel. This partnership…

Trinseo expands presence in China with new recycling project in Zhangjiagang

Trinseo plc (Berwyn, Pa.) officially signed an agreement to launch its polycarbonate (PC) recycling project in the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone. The project involves a total investment of approximately $20 million, with Phase I planned to have an annual production…

Meranti Green Steel launches green iron project in Oman supported by renewable hydrogen

Meranti Green Steel has announced the launch of its green iron project in the Duqm Special Economic Zone, aiming to produce low-emission Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) and Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) as part of the company’s global efforts to decarbonize…

Thyssenkrupp Uhde completes Pre-FEED work on HAMR Energy renewable fuels project

Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany) has completed the Pre-FEED (Front-End Engineering Design) phase for the Portland Renewable Fuels Project in collaboration with HAMR Energy. The project, located in Victoria, Australia, will use biomass residues and renewable electricity to produce green…

OCOChem and ADM to build CO2 electrolysis demonstration plant in Illinois

OCOchem (Richland, Wash.) announced production partnership agreement with ADM Co. (Chicago) to build a groundbreaking field demonstration plant using OCOchem’s Carbon FluX Electrolyzer technology. The plant will be co-located within ADM’s corn processing complex in Decatur, Illinois. It will convert…