Feb 3, 2022
Green ammonia production facility planned for Norway
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Feb 2, 2022
Pumps
Wanner International has announced that it can reduce the total energy usage by up to a half for some industries that rely heavily on pumps for their processes with its Hydra-Cell® device.
Wanner provides pumps for a range of industries across the globe, from oil and gas, through to food production and chemical production.
The Hydra-Cell® pump’s true positive displacement... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 28, 2022
Other
ABB and Coolbrook have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to commercialise the adoption of Roto Dynamic Reactor (RDR) technology in a bid to significantly reduce GHG emissions in steam cracking plants.
The agreement will unite the two companies’ expertise and create a combined offering of Coolbrook’s novel electrically driven RDR technology and ABB’s integrated,... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 21, 2022
Pumps
ExxonMobil and SABIC have revealed a successful startup of Gulf Coast Growth Ventures’ world-scale manufacturing facility in San Patricio County, Texas.
The operation includes a 1.8 MM metric tpy ethane steam cracker, two polyethylene units capable of producing up to 1.3 MM metric tpy, and a monoethylene glycol unit with a capacity of 1.1 MM metric tpy.
“We built... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 14, 2022
Pumps
Bedford Pumps has provided two of their fish friendly pumps to a chemical plant in Runcorn in the UK to aid in the chemical process.
INOVYN ChlorVinyls, part of INEOS, is Europe’s leading producer of vinyls and manufactures in eight countries across Europe.
Their Runcorn site which focuses on the production of chlorine, caustic soda and chlorinated derivatives, produces... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 13, 2022
Pipelines
CropEnergies and Johnson Matthey have entered into an engineering, license and technical services agreement for a plant to produce renewable ethyl acetate from sustainable ethanol.
This will take palce near CropEnergies’ production site in Zeitz, Germany.
Using Johnson Matthey technology, the renewable ethyl acetate produced by CropEnergies will reduce the fossil carbon... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 13, 2022
Pipelines
Ørsted and Liquid Wind have reached an agreement over an e-methanol project.
Ørsted will acquire a 45% ownership share of Liquid Wind AB’s FlagshipONE facility.
FlagshipONE is a late-stage development project and could become the world’s first large-scale sustainable e-methanol project.
Liquid Wind plans to establish a series of facilities across Sweden to decarbonise... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 12, 2022
Pumps
Neste has successfully concluded its first series of trial runs processing liquefied waste plastic at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.
After kicking the series off with its first-ever industrial scale trial run with liquefied waste plastic in 2020, Neste has conducted additional runs in 2021. Neste has been able to upgrade liquefied waste plastic to drop-in solutions for... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Jan 6, 2022
Pumps
Indonesia is set to start work on 22 petrochemicals projects that will conclude in 2025 - mainly driven by strong demand for plastics and fertilisers.
Out of the 22 projects expected to commence operations in Indonesia, four will be methanol projects, followed by three polypropylene projects.
Among the upcoming methanol projects in Indonesia, the Air Products Bengalon... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Dec 17, 2021
Valves
Shell is planning to build a new renewable chemicals plant in Singapore.
The new plant on Pulau Bukom will also be a 550,000 tonnes a year sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO).
A final investment decision is to be made on the plan, which will use hydrogen made from renewable sources and waste biofuel feedstocks such as used... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Dec 15, 2021
Pumps
Hive Hydrogen and Linde have announced the establishment of a 780,000 tonne/year $4.6 billion (€4.1 billion) green ammonia plant.
The plant will have its own dedicated power supply at the Coega Special Economic Zone alongside the Port of Ngqura in South Africa.
There is massive surge in demand for ammonia globally to meet current agricultural and chemical requirements.
Thulani... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Dec 1, 2021
Pipelines
Worley is moving to the construction phase on the expansion of ExxonMobil’s petrochemical project in Texas.
The Baytown chemical expansion project will include a linear alpha olefins (LAO) unit and a solution polymer unit (SPU).
The LAO unit will have an estimated production capacity of around 350,000 tonnes a year.
Worley has completed the engineering and procurement... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Nov 26, 2021
Pumps
Shell will build a new oil upgrader unit to improve the quality of pyrolysis oil.
The oil is made from hard-to-recycle plastic waste that would have gone into a landfill, and turns it into chemical feedstock for its plant.
The unit at Shell’s manufacturing site on Pulau Bukom in Singapore will be the largest in Asia and Shell’s first globally, with a capacity of... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Nov 25, 2021
Pipelines
Lummus Technology is in talks with Phigenesis to deliver certified renewable chemical feedstock for use in existing petrochemical plants.
Through its Green Circle subsidiary, the plan is to manufacture virgin grade plastics, suitable for all grades of application.
Under the agreement, Phigenesis will deploy the Lummus New Hope Plastics Pyrolyisis Technology for a new... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Nov 24, 2021
Pumps
EXERGY has been awarded a new contract for the development of a 5.8 MWe waste heat recovery project in China.
The agreement is with chemical industry player Jiangyin Xingjia New Material Co manufacturing polyester fibre, polyester film and synthetic resin.
EXERGY’s contract includes the engineering and supply of two ORC units that will be part of the customer’s PET... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Nov 19, 2021
Valves
Rotork has supplied 1,250 valve actuators to a Swedish manufacturer.
The pneumatic actuators and digital smart positioners have been ordered by battery manufacturer Northvolt, which specialise in the production of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
Northvolt is working to create the “world’s greenest battery” and Rotork’s products will play a key role... [Read More]
Chemical/Petrochemcial News
Nov 18, 2021
Pumps
Global chemicals company Kemira has announced the completion of their production capacity expansion in the UK.
From 15 November, the annual production of ferric based water treatment chemicals in Goole will be increased by more than 100,000 tonnes annually.
Kemira increased product output of aluminum-based water treatment chemicals in Ellesmere Port by 30,000 tonnes... [Read More]
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