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The port of Rotterdam and the cluster of companies operating here can supply north western Europe with 4.6 million tonnes of hydrogen annually by 2030, it has been revealed.
The consumption of 4.6 million tonnes of hydrogen yields 46 million tonnes of CO2 reduction, and it increases Europe’s energy independence.
This hydrogen amount is the total the Port of Rotterdam Authority has come up…
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Protos Biofuels, a project developed by Advanced Biofuel Solutions and Greenergy, announced its first municipal waste to advanced biofuels project has progressed into the front-end engineering design (FEED) phase.
Petrofac has been appointed to deliver the FEED, with Sumitomo SHI FW to supply the gasifier that converts the household waste into synthesis gas (syngas); Proval to design the direct…
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CHEMUK 2022 returned to the Birmingham NEC in the UK on May 11 for two days.
Following the pandemic the chemical industries supply chain event made its long-awaited return at the end of last year and six months later it was back again.
The event showcased specialist exhibitors in product development, R&D, supply chain, operational and logistics.
Major names booked for the show included…
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Pipelines
Building a UK-wide delivery network for hydrogen has taken a step closer to reality with the SGN trial at Grangemouth in partnership with INEOS.
The trial which is funded by the Energy Regulator and gas distribution companies, will use hydrogen supplied by INEOS in a 29km section of decommissioned pipeline between the Grangemouth site and Granton.
SGN Director of Energy Futures Gus Mcintosh…
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The European Commission, Hydrogen Europe and 20 European companies including Topsoe have signed a declaration on increasing electrolyser manufacturing capacity in the EU.
The declaration backs EU´s new target to double the previous EU target to 10 million tons of annual domestic production of renewable hydrogen plus an additional 10 million tons of annual hydrogen imports.
Roeland Baan, CEO at…
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Pipelines
Ellesmere Port in the north west could be home to the UK’s first ‘hydrogen village’.
Up to 2,000 properties in the Whitby area of the town will stop using natural gas for heating and cooking, and instead use hydrogen.
The proposal, put forward by gas distribution network Cadent and British Gas, and supported by Cheshire West and Chester Council, has been confirmed in a shortlist of two…
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The UK Government’s new energy bill should revolutionise the UK’s decentralised energy sector with the introduction of long-awaited regulation for heat networks and the establishment of a Future System Operator (FSO) to oversee electricity and gas markets, said the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE).
The Queen’s Speech has set out the Government’s policies and legislation for…
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Pipelines
bp has signed a 10-year offtake agreement to convert hard-to-recycle waste plastics into circular petrochemical feedstocks and also into ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD).
Clean Planet Energy designs and builds facilities — which they refer to as ecoPlants — that are expected to process plastics typically rejected by traditional recycling centres and so would otherwise be sent to landfill or…
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Venkatesh Suryanarayanan has joined L&T Valves - a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro.
He joins as the company’s global head of sales.
Venkatesh has three decades of experience in the flow-control domain covering sales, product management and manufacturing.
He started his career with the L&T Group in valve manufacturing and later moved to international sales where he handled various…
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To understand the energy dynamics of today’s war in Ukraine, it is necessary to visit the history of the pipeline systems that were built during the Soviet period and within the Warsaw Pact countries.
Firstly, most of the production of oil and gas is in Russia and very little in the other former Soviet Union countries and most of that oil production lies west of the Ural Mountains.…
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Valves
Rotork has successfully worked with Jersey Water to replace obsolete actuators at two water treatment sites on the Channel Island.
Rotork IQ3 intelligent electric actuators have given the water firm increased levels of reliability and efficiency of the flow control on their sites.
Jersey Water was founded in the mid-19th century and now supplies up to 20 million litres of water per day to the…
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Evonik Catalysts has opened a new Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) plant at its facility in Dombivli, India.
The new plant reduces the amount of fresh water required for production processes and turns material that was previously considered waste into saleable products.
ZLD purifies and recycles wastewater at the end of an industrial process, leaving little to no effluent remaining when it is…
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Emerson has released the TopWorx™ PD Series Smart Valve Positioner that expands on its portfolio of sensing and control products for valves.
The PD Series enhances the current TopWorx portfolio of discrete valve controllers, providing 100% control over valve position and integrating communication via a 4-20 mA loop signal and HART protocols.
Customers can extract valuable feedback through…
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Renewable Energy Group has announced the acquisition of Dawson Oil Company.
This is a bulk fuel distributor and cardlock owner, located in Northern California and will bring about 24 million gallons of fuel sales per year to the REG portfolio.
“This acquisition is a strategic growth opportunity for us as California continues to lead the way in the adoption and transition to cleaner, lower…
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Oil and gas major Shell has reported its highest ever quarterly profits as prices surged globally.
Shell made $9.13 billion (€8.6 billion) in the first three months of 2022, nearly triple its $3.2 billion (€3 billion) profit it announced for the same period last year.
However, the company also revealed that said exiting from the Russian oil and gas market due to the Ukraine conflict had…
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Pumps
Yorkshire Water will invest up to £13 million (€15.4 million) in its wastewater network and treatment works, upstream of the River Wharfe at Ilkley in the UK.
The announcement comes as the UK’s first inland bathing water at Ilkley was rated ‘poor’ by the Environment Agency.
Modelling has indicated during periods of dry weather the main contributors to background bacteria were from…
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Pipelines
South West Water has teamed up with data analysts ASTERRA to use satellites to help find water leaks underground to help reduce wastage across its network.
This technology is the same as is used to search for water on other planets, such as Mars, and works by using microwave sensors onboard a satellite in space to take photos of the earth showing potential water leaks.
As microwaves can…
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Machine-learning technology trialled on part of Wessex Water’s sewerage network has identified early forming sewer blockages in real-time with a 92% accuracy rate.
The potential of artificial technology (AI) to transform sewer network management has been demonstrated during a three-month trial of StormHarvester’s Intelligent Sewer Suite with Wessex Water in the city of Bath in the UK.…
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