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Neste and the Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) have signed an agreement for the clean hydrogen project (SHARC) in Finland.
Neste has closed the grant agreement process with CINEA and the European Commission, following the earlier announced EU Innovation Fund grant decision of €88 million to Neste’s clean hydrogen project at its Porvoo refinery.
The SHARC…
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A materials upgrade performed by Celeros Flow Technology (Celeros FT) has prevented repeated pump failures at an oil refinery in the US - delivering a return on investment (ROI) of less than one year.
The Celeros FT team was called in to investigate the cause of repeated failures of the casings and casing covers on the refinery’s OH2 pumps in boiler feed water service.
The client asked…
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Following its announcement on 5 May last year about updating the New Industrial Strategy, the European Commission has further indicated that it will rely quite heavily on industry to deliver on the major challenges faced by our economies and societies in Europe.
This is particularly the case in relation to sustainability, digital transformation, and global competitiveness, as well as the need…
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Sulzer is expanding its footprint in India with a new service centre.
The company has opened the new state-of-the-art service centre in Vadodara, Gujarat.
The facility will widen the availability of high-quality services for rotating equipment in India.
Using cutting-edge machinery and advanced digital technologies, the centre will offer repairs, upgrades, retrofits and parts manufacturing…
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Flowserve Corp has entered into a non-exclusive partnership agreement with cleantech water solutions company Gradiant to help address challenging problems in water and wastewater treatment.
The partnership brings together Flowserve’s flow control solutions and product expertise with Gradiant’s tailored water treatment technology.
Flowserve provides engineered and industrial pumps, seals and…
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Valmet and Neles Corporation have announced that their respective boards have signed a merger agreement.
The combined company will have an accumulative net sales for 2020 of approximately €4.3 billion.
The combination is expected to generate annual run-rate synergies of approximately €25 million of which approximately 60% are expected to be achieved by 2023 and approximately 90%by…
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American Petroleum Institute (API) president and CEO Mike Sommers has responded to the announcement by President Biden about increasing US liquified natural gas (LNG) exports to Europe.
President Biden and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen want to establish a joint task force to help increase exports to Europe and reduce their dependency on Russian natural gas.
“We…
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Europe can cut its power sector gas consumption in half, reduce energy costs by €323 billion and increase energy independence by 2030 if it rapidly scales up its renewable capacity, according to a new report from Wärtsilä.
To tackle the energy crisis and enable rapid decarbonisation, the technology company is calling on European leaders to implement a monumental but achievable level of…
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A new 240 MW thermal power plant has been commissioned while a new 220 MW piston gas power plant is under construction in Uzbekistan.
The power plant has been built by the Turkish company Cengiz Enerji and is in the Kibray district of the Tashkent region.
The construction of a separate gas piston power plant, also by Cengiz Enerji, with 220 MW capacity is located in the Khavas district of the…
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Clariant’s Catalysts business has been awarded three new contracts by China’s Lihuayi Group for its upcoming petrochemicals production units.
The agreements include three of Clariant’s high-performance catalysts for the production of ethylene, styrene, and propylene.
From Clariant’s ethylene catalyst line, Lihuayi chose the OleMax 101 catalyst for its 1000 KTA olefins plant for…
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Shell has announced the start of production at PowerNap with an estimated peak production of 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d).
PowerNap, a subsea development in the US Gulf of Mexico, is a tie-back to the Shell-operated Olympus production hub in the prolific Mars Corridor.
“Shell has been producing in the Mars Corridor for more than 25 years, and we continue to find ways to…
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Riventa has identified annual savings of almost £20,000 (€23,600) for a food processor’s cooling system after refurbishing five pumps.
Sending chilled water from heat-exchangers, the pumps were all found to be showing significant signs of wear.
With an average load of 45% (equivalent to 2.2 pumps running at any one time), the five pumps had even more demands placed on them during warmer…
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Neste is conducting a feasibility study to examine investing in capacity for processing liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.
The goal is to scale up processing capabilities for liquefied waste plastic by implementing proprietary technologies to pretreat and upgrade liquefied waste plastic and integrating the technologies into the refinery operations.
The targeted…
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Emerson has expanded its ASCO™ Series 090 line of miniature solenoid valves.
The company has added a new three-way Series 090 valve configuration to enable lighter, more space-efficient solutions for gas control in oxygen therapy, compression therapy and gas analyser devices.
Originally developed as a two-way valve for air and inert gases in portable medical devices, the Series 090 valve…
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Vitol has entered into a strategic partnership with Danish company WPU which recycles waste plastic into plastic oils.
Vitol will offtake and market the recycled plastic oils generated by WPU’s new pyrolysis plant in Faarevejle in Odsherred Municipality north of Copenhagen, which is expected to open in early 2023, with an additional two plants to be opened next year.
The combined capacity of…
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KBR has announced that it has secured a contract from a leading midstream company for a new olefins production facility to be built on the US Gulf Coast.
Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide the license and engineering for the olefins production plant.
KBR’s K-COT catalytic olefins technology is the key enabler that can process a wide range of feedstocks to achieve exceptional…
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Their names sound like sinister creations that would spring from the evil mind of a mad scientist in a futuristic novel or movie - hexafluorochloride, dexamethasone, germanium and cadmium telluride.
In reality, they are among the many chemical ingredients that are indispensable foundational components in the manufacture of commodities such as semiconductors.
The main concern for the…
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The EU and the US have signed a liquified natural gas (LNG) deal in a bid to reduce reliance on Russian energy.
The new agreement will see the US provide the EU with at least 15 billion additional cubic metres of LNG by the end of the year, the BBC reported.
The bloc has already said it will cut Russian gas use in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia currently supplies about 40% of…
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