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Lummus Technology awarded major contract for Oman’s Duqm Refinery

Lummus Technology, LLC (Houston) announced that it has been awarded a contract for technology licensing, process design package, training and advisory services, and proprietary catalyst and equipment supply by Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company LLC (DRPIC), a joint venture…

BASF plans realignment of Global Business Services unit

BASF’s (Ludwishafen, Germany) Global Business Services unit is being further developed. The division was established as of January 1, 2020, as part of the implementation of BASF’s corporate strategy. As of that date, around 8,400 employees worldwide transferred to Global…

Wet process analyzer for FPD and solar cell manufacturing for semi-conductors

— BROCHURE Wet process analyzer for FPD and solar cell manufacturing for semi-conductors Industry leader With years of experience and thousands of process monitoring installations, ABB is the leading supplier of fiber optic-based spectrometers to the semiconductor industry. ABB’s solution…

ExxonMobil deepens carbon-capture partnership with Global Thermostat

ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) and Global Thermostat have expanded their joint development agreement following 12 months of technical evaluation to determine the feasibility and potential scalability of Global Thermostat’s technology that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the air.  “ExxonMobil’s…

Hengli Petrochemical starts up seven UOP pressure-swing adsorption units

Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) announced today that Hengli Petrochemical Co. Ltd. successfully started up seven UOP Polybed pressure swing adsorption (PSA) units supplying high-purity hydrogen at its complex in Dalian, Liaoning, China. As a fully integrated site, the complex…

Cemex and Carbon Clean to develop carbon-capture solutions for the cement industry

Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. (Monterrey, Mexico) announced that through CEMEX Ventures, its Corporate Venture Capital unit, it has signed an agreement with Carbon Clean (London, U.K.), a leader in low-cost modular carbon dioxide capture and separation technology, aimed at developing…

Evonik and Siemens commission sustainable chemicals pilot project

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) and Siemens Energy commissioned a pilot plant sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from…

BASF invests in pyrolysis-based recycling of waste tires

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) is to invest €16 million into Pyrum Innovations AG, a technology company specialized in the pyrolysis of waste tires, headquartered in Dillingen/Saar, Germany. With the investment, BASF will support the expansion of Pyrum’s pyrolysis plant in…

Process industries take stock of an autonomous future, says Yokogawa survey

Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) revealed the results of a global end-user survey on the outlook for industrial autonomy, which shows that 64% of respondents from companies in process industries are anticipating fully autonomous operations by 2030. The survey provides…

Svante selects Kiewit Engineering to develop industrial-scale carbon-capture projects

Svante, Inc. (Burnaby, B.C., Canada;) has selected Kiewit Engineering Group Inc. to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for two DOE funded carbon capture projects. On September 1, the United States Department of Energy’s National Energy Laboratory Technology (DOE-NETL)…