Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) and Avfuel Corporation announced a strategic partnership to create an efficient, continuous supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the United States. Neste will provide Avfuel with SAF in volumes able to meet the growing demands…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.), announces the concept of Net-Zero Projects for the production of energy dense liquid hydrocarbons using renewable energy and Gevo’s proprietary technology. The concept of a Net-Zero Project is to convert renewable energy (photosynthetic, wind, renewable natural…
The FLITE consortium, led by SkyNRG B.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.skynrg.com) and with LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) as the technology provider, will build the first-of-its-kind LanzaJet Alcohol-to-Jet-fuel (AtJ) facility. The facility will convert waste-based ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)…
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…
Black & Veatch (B&V; Overland Park, Kan.) has announced the launch of a dedicated environmental business unit to support objectives to meet environmental objectives from regulators, shareholders and consumers. As a newly chartered, dedicated Black & Veatch business unit, the…
ITM Power plc (London), Ørsted A/S (Fredericia, Denmark), Siemens Gamesa (Zamudio, Spain) and Element Energy have been awarded €5 million in funding from The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH2-JU) under the European Commission to demonstrate and investigate a…
Shell will take a 40% interest in a waste-to-fuels plant using technology developed by Enerkem, a leading Canadian clean tech company. Enerkem announced the project in December 2020, subject to finalization of commercial agreements. The approximately C$875 million commercial-scale facility…
The following is a list of recently published books of potential interest for CPI professionals Digital Transformation for the Process Industries: A Roadmap. By Osvaldo Bascur and PJ O’Rourke, CRC Press, 2021, 320 pages, $130.00. Data Science in Chemistry:…
Late last November, the energy-transition start-up company Lumenion GmbH (Berlin, Germany; www.lumenion.com) received the 2020 Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Prize for its high-temperature, steel-based energy-storage technology. The system stores peaks of wind and solar energy by heating a steel core to…
Neste (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) announced that it successfully processed 400 tons of liquefied plastic waste at its refinery in Finland this fall, an amount corresponding to the annual amount of plastic waste generated by 20,000 average European citizens. This was…