Vattenfall AB (Stockholm, Sweden) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Aker Carbon Capture (Lysaker, Norway) to accelerate the evaluation of future carbon capture plants in Sweden and Northern Europe. The agreement will support Vattenfall´s ambitions to achieve negative…
The following titles are recently published books of potential interest to various parts of the chemical process industries (CPI) Human Factor and Reliability Analysis to Prevent Losses in Industrial Processes: An Operational Culture Perspective. By Salvador Avila Filho, Ivone Conceicao…
As part of a strategic collaboration, Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) received a first delivery of 1,000 tons of renewable phenol from Borealis Group AG (Vienna, Austria), produced with renewable hydrocarbons from Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com). Neste produces these ISCC…
Recycling Technologies, a specialist plastic recycling technology provider; Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland), the world’s leading provider of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, and a forerunner in drop-in renewable and circular chemical solutions; and Unilever (London), the consumer goods manufacturer of…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) announced that it has successfully developed a new biodegradable material that could realize mechanical properties equivalent to synthetic resins for the first time in the world. The new material is said to exhibit significantly…
Frames Group B.V. (Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands) has supplied a 25-kW hydrogen electrolyzer to Plug Power, a leading provider of clean hydrogen and zero-emission fuel cell solutions. Working in collaboration with Plug Power, the Frames Electrolyzer design has…
UPM Biochemicals, a group company of UPM Group (Helsinki Finland), together with Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Dr. Reiner Haseloff, UPM Executive Vice President Technology Jyrki Ovaska and InfraLeuna Managing Director Dr. Christof Güntherden, celebrated the groundbreaking for the construction of a…
MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary; www.mol.hu) announced that it has completed a rubber bitumen plant at the Zala Site, representing an investment of around $10 million. The facility, built in one year, is capable of producing 20,000 metric tons per year…
Veolia (Paris) and Waga Energy S.A. (Meylan, France) have launched the construction of WagaBox, a unit recovering biomethane from landfill waste. WagaBox will be installed in Île-de-France at the Claye-Souilly landfill to supply renewable gas to 20,000 homes in the…
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced that it has signed a joint development agreement with TOTAL Cray Valley, part of the Polymers division of Total SE (Paris), to upgrade fusel oils (a mixture liquids produced during alcoholic fermentation) from ethanol production…