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Solvay installs solar farm at Dutch peroxides plant

Solvay S.A. (Brussels. Belgium) is constructing hectares of solar panels at its site in Linne Herten, the Netherlands, to generate its own green energy. Fully operational, Linne Herten’s 6,500 MWh solar farm provides 40% of the plant’s electricity needs and…

Honeywell UOP technology selected to reduce chloride emissions at Malaysian refinery

Honeywell announced today that Malaysia-based Hengyuan Refining Company Bhd. (HRC) has started Honeywell UOP’s modular Chlorsorb technology as part of a revamp of its existing UOP CCR Platforming unit to help it comply with new clean-air regulations. Located in HRC’s…

Air Liquide to invest €125 million in advanced oxygen-production plant

Air Liquide (Paris, France) announced an investment of €125 million to build the first world-scale Air Separation Unit (ASU) for oxygen production with an energy storage system that helps facilitate more renewable energy on the electricity grid due to its…

Clariant and Jiangsu Jinneng partner in catalytic off-gas treatment at PA plant

Clariant Catalysts (Munich, Germany) and Jiangsu Jinneng’s collaboration in off-gas treatment is off to a strong start in 2020. Jiangsu Jinneng’s innovative catalytic combustion unit and Clariant’s highly effective EnviCat VOC catalyst have been in successful operation at the phthalic…

ATCO to build Alberta’s first hydrogen-blending project

Canadian Utilities, an ATCO company, announced it has been awarded $2.8 million in funding from Emission Reductions Alberta's (ERA) Natural Gas Challenge to advance a first-of-its-kind hydrogen blending project in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta. Once complete, the project will be Canada's…

EcoVadis and Oxiteno partner to grow supply-chain sustainability in Latin America

EcoVadis, provider of business sustainability ratings, has announced its partnership with Oxiteno (Sao Paulo, Brazil), a leader in the production of surfactants and specialty chemicals in Latin America. The two companies will collaborate to improve the sustainability performance of Oxiteno…

Chevron Lummus Global announces startup of euglena biofuels plant in Yokohama

Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), a joint venture between Chevron U.S.A. Inc. and Lummus Technology,  and Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) are pleased to announce the successful startup of euglena Co., Ltd.'s integrated Biofuels ISOCONVERSION unit in Yokohama, Japan.  The 5 barrel…

LyondellBasell PP technology selected for new plant in China

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that Quanzhou Grand Pacific Chemical Co. Ltd. (QGPC), a fully owned Chinese subsidiary of Grand Pacific Petrochemical Corp. (GPPC) of Taiwan, will use the LyondellBasell Spheripol technology for a new polypropylene plant to be built in…

Fluor Awarded FEED Contract for California Resources’ Carbon Capture Project

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.) was awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for California Resources Corporation’s (CRC) carbon capture and sequestration project, Cal Capture, at the 550-MW, natural gas-powered Elk Hills Power Plant in Tupman, California. The FEED is…