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SOEC green hydrogen test facility breaks ground at BASF’s Schwarzheide site
Industrial Park Lausitz (Schwarzheide, Germany) and Sunfire SE (Dresden, Germany) officially broke ground on a green hydrogen test facility in the presence of representatives from government, business, and industry. At the BASF site, Sunfire will validate its latest and most…
Aker Solutions and Microsoft partner to advance carbon capture and removal projects globally
Aker Solutions ASA (Fornebu, Norway) has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, Washington) to advance the maturity, bankability and delivery of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects across the globe. Under the agreement, Aker…
Enapter starts AEM electrolyzer stack production in China
Enapter AG (Hamburg, Germany) is implementing its previously announced realignment toward an asset-light business model, with the start of AEM electrolyzer stack production at new production partner Runqing Hydrogen Technology Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen, China), a member of the Runshihua Group,…
Syzygy Plasmonics signs IFC framework agreement to advance SAF projects across Latin America
Syzygy Plasmonics (Houston) announced a framework agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, to support the development of a pipeline of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects across Latin America. Under the…
BioBTX breaks ground on world’s first commercial-scale plant to convert mixed plastic waste to aromatics
BioBTX B.V. (Groningen, Netherlands) is building its world's first commercial-scale plant to transform mixed plastic waste into high-quality aromatic chemicals based on its in-house developed ICCP (Integrated Catalytic Cracking Process) technology. Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany) has been a shareholder and…
Power to Hydrogen installs first-of-a-kind AEM electrolyzer at Port of Antwerp-Bruges
Power to Hydrogen Inc. (P2H2; Columbus, Ohio), a developer of anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrolyzer systems, today announced it has delivered and begun installation of a first-of-a-kind half-megawatt AEM electrolyzer at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium. The project is…
Lanxess to use hydrogen as fuel at iron oxide production facility
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) announced that it will use hydrogen instead of natural gas to dry iron oxide pigments at its site in Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany. This will make the spray dryer one of the first large-scale industrial plants in Germany…
Smoltek Hydrogen and Heraeus Precious Metals advance ultra-low iridium electrolysis technology
Smoltek Nanotech Holding AB (Gothenburg, Sweden) announced that its subsidiary Smoltek Hydrogen and Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG (Hanau, Germany) are advancing their strategic collaboration to develop next-generation, ultra-low iridium Porous Transport Electrodes (PTEs) for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM)…
RWE announces first renewable hydrogen delivery to Evonik as part of GET H2 Nukleus project
As part of the ongoing commissioning process for two 100-MW electrolysis plants operated by RWE Generation SE (Essen, Germany), initial quantities of renewable hydrogen are being produced in accordance with EU rules. They are transported through a pipeline network spanning…
Japan’s first pilot project for direct-ocean CO2 capture planned
Hitachi, Ltd., Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd., and Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. (all Tokyo, Japan) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to conduct Japan's first pilot test on Kume Island, Okinawa Prefecture, utilizing Direct-Ocean Co2 Capture (DOC) — a technology…