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  1. Perstorp Plan To Reduce Carbon Emission With Half Million Tons By Producing Sustainable Methanol 11/24/2020

    Perstorp, a global leader in the specialty chemicals market, has developed a production concept to produce methanol from a large variety of recovered end-of-life streams and hydrogen from electrolysis. Project AIR will build a first-of-a-kind, large scale, commercial Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) unit to produce sustainable methanol

  2. S&B Completes 300,000 BPD NGL Fractionation Project For Phillips 66 11/23/2020

    S&B today announced the successful, on-time completion of two NGL fractionation plants for Phillips 66

  3. Lummus Awarded Double CATOFIN® PDH Contract In China 11/23/2020

    Lummus Technology today announced that it has been awarded a contract from Ningbo Kingfa Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. for two propane dehydrogenation units in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China. Lummus' scope includes technology licensing, process design package and technical services, and catalyst supply through its partner Clariant

  4. Braskem And Haldor Topsoe Achieve First Production Of Bio-Based MEG From Sugar 11/23/2020

    Braskem, the largest petrochemical company in the Americas and a world leader in the production of biopolymers, and Denmark-based Haldor Topsoe, a global leader in supply of catalysts, technology, and services for the chemical and refining industries, have announced that they achieved their first-ever demo-scale production of bio-based monoethylene glycol (MEG)

  5. Lummus Technology Awarded Contract For Shandong Yulong Refining And Petrochemical Integrated Project 11/16/2020

    Lummus Technology today announced that it has been awarded a technology contract by Shandong Yulong Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China's Nanshan Group. Lummus will provide Master Licensor services for multiple licensed units, consisting of two mixed feed crackers, an EB/SM plant and two polypropylene (PP) lines

  6. Extracting Hydrogen From Natural Gas Networks: Linde And Evonik Offer Joint Technology Solution 11/12/2020

    Currently there is growing interest in the prospect of using the existing natural gas infrastructure more extensively to transport hydrogen (H2) – green H2 in particular. Numerous initiatives have already been launched around the world in order to develop enabling technology concepts

  7. Xebec And Shenergy Strengthen Partnership To Develop China’s Growing Hydrogen Market 11/12/2020

    Xebec Adsorption Inc. (TSXV: XBC) (“Xebec”), a global provider of clean energy solutions, today announced a strengthened partnership with Shanghai based Shenergy Group Company Limited (“Shenergy”)

  8. JM’s Leading Low Carbon Hydrogen Technology Scoops IChemE Award 11/11/2020

    Johnson Matthey, a leader in sustainable technologies, has scooped the Energy Award at this year’s IChemE Awards with its Low Carbon Hydrogen technology. The IChemE Global Awards celebrate chemical, process and biochemical engineering excellence and are widely considered to be the world’s most prestigious annual chemical engineering awards

  9. Renewable Fuel Production Begins At Preem's Refinery In Lysekil 11/11/2020

    For the first time, renewable raw materials are being converted to Swedish Environmental Class 1 diesel at Preem's refinery in Lysekil. The aim is to annually produce up to 950,000 cubic meters of renewable fuel by 2024

  10. LyondellBasell Grants 450 KTA Hostalen ACP License To Hengyi Industries SDN BHD 11/10/2020

    LyondellBasell, the world’s largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, today announced that Hengyi Industries SDN BHD (Hengyi) will use the LyondellBasell Hostalen “Advanced Cascade Process” (Hostalen ACP) technology for a new facility