Latest News: Sustainability
Neste awarded €88-million grant for green hydrogen and CCS projects at Porvoo refinery
Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland) announced that the EU Innovation Fund has given a positive grant decision of €88-million funding to Neste’s green hydrogen and CO2 capture & storage project, which aims to quickly and efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions at…
Haldor Topsoe and Green Fuel enter into MoU to develop scalable technologies for green ammonia
Icelandic hydrogen and ammonia company Green Fuel and Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which will see the companies partnering to identify efficient and scalable technologies for the production of green ammonia in Iceland. The…
SK Innovation to use Honeywell UOP technology for carbon capture and sequestration
SK Innovation and Energy (Seoul, South Korea) has selected Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) for a feasibility study to retrofit SK’s hydrogen plant with carbon capture. SK will explore capturing and sequestering 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from existing…
DuPont breaks ground on adhesive production plant in China
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) announced that it is breaking ground on its new $30-million facility that will produce a range of materials to advance applications for electrification and lightweighting in support of growing demand for its automotive adhesives. The new facility…
Gevo and Sweetwater Energy sign MoU for renewable hydrocarbons production
Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colo.) announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sweetwater Energy, Inc. (Rochester N.Y.) regarding the use of sustainably sourced agricultural residues and woody biomass as a feedstock for producing cellulosic alcohols and energy-dense…
Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate solar-powered hydrogen generation
Heliogen, Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.) and Bloom Energy Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) announced the generation of green hydrogen by integrating the companies’ technologies – Heliogen’s concentrated solar energy system and the Bloom Electrolyzer. The successful demonstration in Lancaster, California produced hydrogen…
Technip Energies and Petronas collaborate to commercialize carbon capture technologies
Technip Energies (Paris) and PETRONAS (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) have signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) establishing a strategic collaboration framework for the further development and commercialization of carbon capture technologies. These include PETRONAS’ Rotating Pack Bed assisted cryogenic CO2 recovery…
BP and Clean Energy Fuels expand RNG joint venture
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Newport Beach, Calif.) and bp plc (London) announced that their renewable natural gas (RNG) joint venture will build on previously announced plans to finance and develop new projects at dairy farms, starting in the Midwest. Located…
Orlen announces startup of Europe’s largest plant producing ‘green’ propylene glocol
ORLEN Południe, an ORLEN Group company, has brought onstream Poland’s first and Europe’s largest green propylene glycol production unit at its biorefinery in Trzebinia. The unit has a capacity of 30,000 tons per year, enough to cover as much as…
RWE and Shell sign MOU for green hydrogen, decarbonization projects
Shell New Energies NL BV (Shell) and RWE AG (Essen, Germany) intend to jointly advance projects for the production, use and distribution of green hydrogen as well as further options to decarbonize RWE gas and biomass-fired power plants in northwest…