Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland) has completed the acquisition of BASF’s U.S. based Attapulgite business assets for $60 million in cash. Structured as an asset deal, the transaction includes the transfer of land as well as mining rights, the processing facility,…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) announced that domestic EPC operating company JGC Japan Corporation (JGC Japan) has started technical development on carbon dioxide (CO2) capture applying unused cold energy from liquefied natural gas (LNG). These efforts support development and demonstration in…
Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden) has signed an agreement to deliver compact heat exchangers to the world’s largest green hydrogen plant, which is to be constructed in the Middle East. The facility, powered by renewable energy, will be part of…
Baker Hughes (Houston) has backed Levidian’s world-first decarbonization technologies with a £12m investment at a £130m valuation – opening up global collaboration opportunities. The cash injection will enable the further scale up of Levidian’s business, including both LOOP, Levidian’s decarbonization…
Sandvik AB (Stockholm, Sweden) has completed the previously announced acquisition of the mining related business of Schenck Process Group (SP Mining). SP Mining is one of the market leaders in screening, feeding, screening media and train loading solutions in the…
Batch reactors are widely used throughout the chemical process industries (CPI), and the basic design has not radically changed for many decades. Nevertheless, precise temperature control of batch processes continues to be a common problem. Now, a new design of…
The U.S. Energy Information Admin. (Washington, D.C.; www.eia.gov) projects a nearly 50% increase in global energy use by 2050. Coinciding with this demand explosion, ambitious sustainability targets are necessitating a widespread transition to more climate-friendly technologies. Hydrogen is poised as…
The startup company RenewCO2 (Piscataway, N.J.; www.renewco2.com) has developed a catalyzed electrochemical process for selectively producing monoethylene glycol (MEG) in a single step using byproduct carbon dioxide from other processes as feedstock. MEG is important industrially because it is the…
Magnesium metal is important for several emerging potential sustainability-related applications, including carbon capture, low-carbon cement and energy storage. These potential applications are driving efforts to efficiently produce magnesium hydroxide, the raw material for manufacturing Mg metal. It is possible to…
Scientists at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL; Upton, N.Y.; www.bnl.gov) and collaborators at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL; Laurel Hollow, N.Y.; www.cshl.edu) have genetically engineered a strain of duckweed (Lemna japonica) to produce high yields of…