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Topsoe technology chosen for industrial scale low-carbon ammonia project in Louisiana

Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has been chosen as technology provider to Ascension Clean Energy (ACE), an industrial scale low carbon hydrogen-ammonia joint venture project by Clean Hydrogen Works (CHW), Denbury Carbon Solutions and Hafnia. To deliver the 7.2 million metric…

Perstorp to initiate major water-conservation project at Stenungsund operations

Perstorp AB (Malmö, Sweden) is investing in a unique project that will allow it to use wastewater from a nearby municipal treatment plant for production operations in Stenungsund, Sweden. This will save 1.1 billion liters of fresh water per year. The project…

January 2023 Bookshelf: Recently Published Books for the CPI

The following lists recently published books of relevance to the chemical process industries (CPI): The Other Side of Safety: Moving from Results-Based to Behavior-Based. By Robert Palmer, CRC Press, 2023, 154 pages, $71.96. A New Approach to HAZOP of Complex…

2022 CEPCI Updates: October (prelim.) and September (final)

The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for October 2022 (most recent available) fell for the fourth consecutive month, following a long string of monthly increases between November 2020 and June 2022. For the October preliminary data,…

Metso Outotec and Rio Tinto join forces to develop low-carbon ironmaking project

Metso Outotec Oy (Helsinki, Finland) is working with Rio Tinto (London, U.K.) on the development of the BioIron project for low-carbon iron making. As recently announced by Rio Tinto, process effectiveness of the novel low-carbon iron-making process has been successfully proven by small-scale…

Sulzer providing technologies for e-methanol, renewable fuels plant in Denmark

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland) is using its advanced separation technologies to enable the world’s first commercial scale e-methanol plant, constructed by European Energy. The innovative facility in Kassø, Aabenraa, Denmark will produce 32,000 metric tonnes of carbon neutral fuels…

Wood and CuanTec developing separation technologies for processing chitin

Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) will work with CuanTec Ltd., a Scottish circular economy business, to develop cutting edge separation facilities that will process shellfish waste to extract chitin, a naturally occurring, 100% compostable biopolymer with a wide range of applications…

Clariant to expand Care Chemicals facility in Huizhou, China

Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) is set to expand its Care Chemicals facility in Daya Bay, Huizhou, China, to boost its support for pharmaceutical, personal care, home care, and industrial application customers. The CHF 80 million investment will see capacity increases…

Aramco and TotalEnergies to build petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Aramco; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and TotalEnergies SA (Paris, France) have taken the final investment decision for the construction of a world scale petrochemical facility in Saudi Arabia. The ‘Amiral’ complex will be owned, operated, and…

Johnson Matthey and Honeywell collaborating on low-carbon hydrogen

Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) and Johnson Matthey plc (JM; London) announced they will work together to deploy low-carbon hydrogen (LCH) solutions. The companies will offer JM’s innovative LCH technology, coupled with Honeywell’s leading carbon-capture technology to produce lower carbon…