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ALPLA acquires packaging manufacturer in South Africa

ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) has acquired South African packaging manufacturer Verigreen Packaging, which is based in Durban. The company specializes in bottles and canisters for lubricants. such as engine oils.  “This acquisition is the perfect fit for our strategy,” explains…

BP enters partnership with Center for Hydrogen Safety

The Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS) — a technical community within the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and a global organization leading the safe advancement of hydrogen as the next-generation fuel — has announced a partnership with energy giant…

Phillips 66 to provide hydrogen-containing fuel gas to Linden Cogen

Linden Cogeneration (Linden, N.J.) and Phillips 66 (Houston) have reached an agreement for Linden Cogen to take hydrogen-containing fuel gas produced at the Bayway Refinery, and blend it with natural gas used to fuel the 172MW F-class Linden Cogen unit…

Aker BioMarine and GEA to design the world’s first krill-protein pilot plant

On behalf of Aker BioMarine (Oslo, Norway), GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) has been contracted to design and deliver the world’s first pilot plant for hydrolyzing krill protein. The client is a biotechnology company based in Norway that fishes for…

LanzaTech to begin FEED work for sustainable aviation fuels plant in South Wales

LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) has announced that its Project DRAGON, which stands for Decarbonizing and Reimagining Aviation for the Goal Of Netzero, will undertake the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of a facility in Port Talbot, South Wales, that will produce over…

Johnson Matthey acquires assets to accelerate green hydrogen scaleup

Johnson Matthey plc (London, U.K.) announced its acquisition of the assets and intellectual property of Oxis Energy Limited, based near Oxford, UK. Oxis Energy was a lithium-sulfur battery developer with assets which can be adapted for the manufacture of components…

Haltermann Carless to become the world’s largest cyclopentane producer

Haltermann Carless (Frankfurt, Germany), a company of the HCS Group GmbH, and a leading supplier of high-value hydrocarbon solutions, will become the world's largest producer of Cyclopentane and Cyclopentane blends following the completion of its new hydrogenation plant at the…

Temperature Instruments Improve Operations

Modern temperature instrumentation simplifies technician access, calibration, and SIL procedures. By Keith Riley, Endress+Hauser As temperature instrument technology has matured, there is less focus on the actual measured value and more on added value. Accuracy and stability are considered basic…

Hydrogen Piping Systems: Mitigating Pitfalls by Design

This overview presents guidance for the safe design of piping systems that are used for the distribution of hydrogen gas Hydrogen gas is a very volatile fluid that has a high propensity to leak. This is a very dangerous and…

Show Preview — Connected Plant Conference 2021

Global digitalization professionals will convene in Austin, Tex. for the 2021 Connected Plant Conference (www.connectedplantconference.com), which is being held August 30–Sept. 2. The event will cover all aspects of the industrial internet of things (IIoT), and its enabling technologies, including…