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Sasol enters agreement to sell Nitrates business
Sasol, Ltd. (Sandton, South Africa) has entered into a sale agreement with Enaex Africa (Dunkeld, South Africa) for the sale of its Nitrates business, which includes the primary ammonia conversion plants in Secunda and Sasolburg that convert ammonia into feedstock…
D-CRBN selects Worley to engineer renewable syngas plant in Antwerp
D-CRBN (Antwerp, Belgium) has selected Worley, Ltd. (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) to provide engineering services for its new renewable syngas demonstration plant in Antwerp, Belgium. The project is designed to demonstrate a lower-carbon pathway for producing feedstock used in…
Lonza to build large-scale spray-drying facility in Oregon
Lonza, Group AG (Basel, Switzerland) announced plans to further strengthen its significant U.S. presence by constructing a large-scale commercial spray-drying facility in Bend, Oregon. The investment will establish Lonza as the leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) provider of…
Moeve and ArcelorMittal form joint platform to develop decarbonization projects
Moeve, S.A. (Madrid, Spain) and ArcelorMittal, S.A. (Luxembourg City, Luxembourg) will combine their expertise in innovation, energy solutions, and industrial capabilities to create a new platform for developing projects that have a direct impact on the competitiveness and sustainability of…
Fieldbus-connected valve terminal improves hazardous-area automation
In Class I, Division 2 hazardous locations, pneumatic actuators have traditionally been controlled from control cabinets in distant, safe locations. Long wiring runs increase installation and commissioning time, complicate maintenance and troubleshooting, and make future system expansion difficult. The new…
Physics-Rooted, Non-Invasive Industrial Temperature Sensors Drive Accuracy While Providing Flexibility
Enhanced thermal coupling and physical pipe conditioning techniques combine the accuracy of traditional thermowell-inserted thermometers with the application flexibility of non-invasive temperature measurement methods. Temperature is one of the most critical process variables in these environments, and its accurate measurement…
Daikin to supply C4-FN specialty gas to Hitachi Energy for SF6-free high-voltage technologies
Hitachi Energy Ltd. (Zurich, Switzerland) and Daikin Industries, Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) announced an agreement to establish a long-term strategic supply relationship for Hitachi Energy's EconiQ® portfolio of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)-free high-voltage technologies. As part of the agreement, Daikin Chemical Europe…
Power to Hydrogen and Repsol validate AEM electrolysis for large-scale hydrogen production
Power to Hydrogen Inc. (P2H2, Columbus, Ohio), a developer of anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrolyzer systems, and Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain), one of Europe's leading energy companies, today announced the successful completion of a rigorous pilot validating P2H2's hybrid AEM…
Eni and Petronas sign feasibility agreement for bio-gasoline development
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and PETRONAS (Petroliam Nasional Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) have signed a Feasibility Agreement (FA) to evaluate the development of innovative high-performance bio-gasoline starting from the established Ecofining™ technology process, through which Eni has been producing HVO…
Avantium completes commissioning of purification unit at FDCA Flagship Plant
Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, Netherlands) has successfully completed the commissioning of the purification unit at its FDCA Flagship Plant in Delfzijl, the world's first commercial-scale plant for the production of FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid). With the purification unit now commissioned, all major…