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The Net Zero North West and the North West Hydrogen Alliance has responded to the UK government’s Levelling Up White Paper.
They argue this will have implications for industrial decarbonisation, clean growth and building a hydrogen economy in the region.
The North West Hydrogen Alliance brings together some of the region’s largest and most innovative organisations, each bringing a unique…
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Kent has been awarded engineering work for the V Net Zero (VNZ) Project by Harbour Energy - the UK’s largest independent oil and gas company.
The project will store CO2 from the Immingham SuperPlace, located in the Humber region, the UK’s most energy-intensive industrial area, and could help decarbonise more than 50% of the area’s industrial emissions.
John Kent, chief energy transition…
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Hy2gen plans to produce green ammonia as a fuel for the maritime sector.
The company specialising in designing, building and operating facilities to produce green hydrogen and green hydrogen-based derivatives, will carry out the work in Sauda, Norway.
The green ammonia production facility, named Iverson eFuels AS, will be owned by Hy2gen, Trafigura and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners…
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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 action and minimal…
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Russian gas operator Gazprom is set to start-up westbound gas flows from Poland to Germany from the Yamal pipeline.
This will restore the normal flows after the route was reversed in December and sent gas prices in Europe to all-time highs.
Gazprom booked transit capacity of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline for eight hours, Reuters reported.
The pipeline, which usually accounts for about a sixth…
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SLD Pumps & Power (SLD) has switched exclusively to cleaner fuel to power its nationwide equipment fleet.
The UK supplier of industrial pumps will begin using biodiesel which will displace consumption of about 1 million litres of highly polluting mineral diesel each year.
A pilot initiative with the new cleaner-burning fuel was introduced at the company's Glasgow branch to coincide with the…
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Elkem has secured 100% ownership of the Elkem Salten energy recovery plant, after acquiring the remaining 50% stake from Kvitebjørn Energi.
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre opened the new energy recovery plant at Elkem Salten in the northern part of Norway last November.
The energy recovery plant is closely integrated with the silicon production process at Elkem Salten, utilising the excess…
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Jacobs has been awarded a feasibility study contract from renewable energy company RWE to investigate the production and supply of green hydrogen in South Wales, UK.
The four-month study will look at the feasibility of initially installing a 100 MW electrolyser at RWE’s Pembroke Power Station to produce green hydrogen. “This feasibility study provides us with an opportunity to work…
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Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has completed more than half of the extension of several key water transmission pipelines in Dubai.
This spans over 22km of pipeline with a diameter of 1,200 mm.
The project location runs from Al Quoz Industrial Fourth to Al Thanyah Fifth, alongside Al Khail Road in Dubai.
As per the approved plan, the project aims to increase water flow, and…
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FVB which focuses on water purification and water supply, plants and pumps is now expanding its expertise to include pipe networks.
FVB primarily works in the district heating and district cooling sector, but has also worked in the water and sewage industry for many years.
This primarily involves investigations, design of wastewater treatment plants, improving energy efficiency, and the control…
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Selwood, a UK-based company dealing in pump rental solutions, has agreed a new partnership with Borger.
The arrangement commences with Selwood’s purchase of 15 custom-designed, positive displacement process-critical pumps to complement its existing stock of 5,000 pumps for rental - primarily in water and wastewater applications.
Selwood and Borger have worked together for several years on a…
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When it comes to the petrochemical and chemical industries, it is critical to have a precise awareness of current operating temperatures to ensure a stable, efficient, and ultimately safe operation.
Traditionally, temperature measurement is a process that relies on human operators to manually record the temperature of operational equipment and then to adjust accordingly.
This interpretation…
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Shell has started operations at a new power-to-hydrogen electrolyser in China.
The operation in Zhangjiakou is a joint venture between Shell China and Zhangjiakou City Transport Construction Investment Holding Group.
The plant, one of the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysers, has started production of green hydrogen.
The electrolyser will provide about half of the total green hydrogen…
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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, pre-engineered…
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Welsh Water is investing £120 million (€144 million) to improve the reliability of its water supply and this includes using new camera systems to investigate the condition of these supply pipes.
Traditionally, teams would dig trial holes to assess and survey pipes but this collaboration with API (Advanced Pipe Inspection) will speed up the process. The new camera system enters the water main…
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Hunting Energy Services has successfully project managed and transported about 6,100 metres of casing to the Eden Geothermal site.
The company has provided engineering, manufacturing and logistics expertise to the Eden project in the UK. This is Hunting’s first endeavour into the UK geothermal market, with the intention of expanding further into the European geothermal marketplace.
A total…
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Haldor Topsoe has become the latest member of Hydrogen Council to promote green hydrogen solutions.
The Hydrogen Council is a platform for enabling the energy transition through partnerships and is a CEO-led initiative of companies with a united vision and long-term ambition.
Topsoe membership of the council will accelerate Power-to-X solutions for the hard-to-abate sectors.
Topsoe is the…
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Aemetis has completed an additional seven-mile section of a biogas pipeline network in the US state of California.
The biogas unit of the renewable fuel and biochemicals company said that it finished work on a section that will transport biogas from five new dairy digesters, currently under construction, to a centralised renewable natural gas upgrading facility at the Aemetis Keyes biofuels…
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