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2022 CEPCI updates: April (prelim.) and March (final)
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for April 2022 (most recent available) maintains the upward trajectory of the index that has been observed since late 2020, with the latest value once again higher than the previous…
Tata Chemicals Europe opens U.K.’s largest carbon-capture plant
Tata Chemicals Europe opened the U.K.'s first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant today, signalling a key milestone in the race to meet the UK's net zero targets. The £20 million investment has been completed by U.K.-based Tata Chemicals…
Amyris starts up fermentation plant in Brazil
Amyris, Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.) has successfully started operation at its new precision fermentation plant in Barra Bonita, Brazil. The greenfield site at Barra Bonita establishes Amyris as the leading manufacturer of highly engineered organisms at industrial scale. The first of…
Everfuel and Greenstat make progress on 20-MW green-H2 project in Norway
Everfuel A/S (Herning, Denmark) and Greenstat ASA (Bergen, Norway) announced the award a grant of NOK 148 million (around $15 million) from Enova to support the development of the Hydrogen Hub Agder. The hub includes the construction of a 20-MW…
BASF and Shell validating adsorption technologies for green-hydrogen production
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has worked with Shell to evaluate and de-risk BASF’s Puristar R0-20 and Sorbead Adsorption Technology for the use in green-hydrogen production. The two technologies purify and dehydrate the product hydrogen stream from the water electrolysis process…
TÜV SÜD launches new hydrogen-safety certifications
TÜV SÜD has announced two new certification marks, one for the certification of fuel-cell systems and one for components of hydrogen systems. By using these marks, manufacturers can inspire trust in the safety and performance of their systems and components.…
Air Liquide and Siemens Energy create hydrogen electrolyzer JV
Air Liquide SA (Paris) and Siemens Energy (Munich) announced the creation of a joint venture dedicated to the series production of industrial scale renewable hydrogen electrolyzers in Europe. With two of the global leading companies in their field combining their…
Honeywell UOP awarded engineering contract for refinery upgrade in Alexandria, Egypt
Honeywell announced that Alexandria National Refining and Petrochemical Co. (ANRPC) will upgrade their existing naphtha complex using Honeywell UOP engineering services to increase the production of gasoline which will help decrease the dependency on imported fuels in Egypt. The…
Siemens enters partnership with pyrolysis engineering firm Pyrum Innovations
Pyrum Innovations AG (Dillingen, Germany) has signed a partnership agreement with the Siemens technology group. The aim of the partnership is to further promote, optimize and scale Pyrum's pyrolysis systems technologically and economically with the digitalization and automation portfolio from…
Umicore and Idemitsu to jointly develop solid-state battery materials
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) and Idemitsu Kosan Co. (Tokyo) have agreed to jointly develop high-performance catholyte materials for solid-state batteries, combining their respective expertise in cathode active materials and solid electrolytes, and aiming to provide the technological breakthrough to extend…