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De Nora to supply electrolyzer technology for HyTecHeat steel project

Industrie De Nora S.p.A (Milan, Italy) announced that it is one of the Partners in the European project HyTecHeat, along with, among others, Snam and Tenova. This project involves the use of hybrid technologies for the production of steel with…

Chevron to begin producing hydrogen from solar power at Lost Hills facility in California

Chevron (San Ramon, Calif.) announced that it is developing a 5-megawatt hydrogen production project in California’s Central Valley. The project aims to create lower carbon energy by utilizing solar power, land, and non-potable produced water from Chevron’s existing assets at…

A new project targeting emissions-free pulping

The Emission Free Pulping program aims to significantly reduce biomass burning and increase the product yield of wood material used for pulping from approximately 50 to around 70%. The five-year, €15-million program is jointly led by VTT Technical Research Centre…

LyondellBasell’s joint Source One Plastics recycling facility starts up in Germany

LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that Source One Plastics, a joint venture between 23 Oaks Investments and LyondellBasell, has successfully started up its plastic waste sorting and recycling facility in Eicklingen, Germany. The new unit processes difficult to…

OMV Petrom signs contracts to begin construction of two green hydrogen production projects at Petrobrazi refinery

OMV Petrom, the largest integrated energy producer in South-eastern Europe, announced the signing of two financing contracts through the NRRP, for the construction of two production facilities for green hydrogen with a total capacity of 55 MW at the Petrobrazi…

Cepsa and Bio-Oils begin construction of major biofuels plant in Spain

Cepsa  (Madrid, Spain) and Bio-Oils, a subsidiary of Apical, are beginning construction of the largest second-generation biofuels plant in southern Europe. This facility, which will flexibly produce 500,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (hydrogenated vegetable oil…

Koch Modular Process Systems and PPL collaborating on new CO2-capture project in Kentucky

Koch Modular Process Systems has announced its collaboration with PPL Corp. (PPL) as a key research partner for a groundbreaking carbon dioxide (CO2) capture project, funded with a $72 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean…

Bp selects BASF’s carbon capture technology for blue-hydrogen project in Teesside

Bp plc (London) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) have signed a license agreement for the use of BASF’s gas-treating technology, OASE white, to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) generated during hydrogen production at bp’s proposed blue hydrogen facility in Teesside, H2Teesside.…

Maire awarded EPC contract by Eni for construction of new hydrogen plant at Livorno refinery

MAIRE (Milan, Itlay) announced that its subsidiary KT - Kinetics Technology (Integrated E&C Solutions) has been awarded an EPC contract by Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) to build a hydrogen production plant at Eni’s Livorno refinery.  The value of the contract…

Plug Power to supply hydrogen fuel-cell technologies for automobile manufacturing

Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.) has finalized a contract to supply a major U.S. automobile manufacturer with hydrogen infrastructure and fuel cell solutions that will support material handling operations. The manufacturing campus of over 6 square miles is dedicated to…