Reactors
Mammoet completes heavy haul for Portugal's Sines Industrial Complex's ALBA project
The ALBA project will see significant expansion of the Sines Industrial Complex in Portugal. This large facility includes a linear polyethylene plant and a polypropylene plant.
New Energy Blue and ARCO/Murray partner to build biomass refineries to produce sustainable fuels and chemicals
New Energy Blue, the clean-energy developer whose technology converts agricultural waste into lowest-carbon biofuels and biochemicals, and ARCO/Murray announced a partnership to build out the New Energy Biomass Refinery designed platform across the American Midwest.
China produces first nuclear-generated steam for petrochemicals plant
China's first nuclear-based steam generation project began production on Wednesday, state-run China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) said in a Wechat post announcing the latest step in Chinese efforts to decarbonize heavy industry.
Hydrogen-rich content gasoline: A new concept for paraffinic gasoline reformulation
Several refiners are evaluating a new gasoline-formulation technology called hydrogen (H2)-rich-content (HRC) gasoline. This patented technology uses low-sulfur, H2-rich refinery blendstocks like straight-run gasoline, isomerates, alkylate, butanes and renewable naphtha in gasoline blends, and adds aromatic amines (a high-octane gasoline additive) to make a drop-in specification gasoline.
A multi-objective optimization study for an integrated oil refinery-petrochemical plant—Part 2
In this research, the integration of an oil refinery and an ethylene-producing facility was examined using a mixed-integer nonlinear programming model that prioritized maximizing ethylene and propylene production and net profit.
Accelerating the DCS of the future: Open process automation technology
Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, PETRONAS operates all oil and gas resources in the country and is responsible for developing and adding value to them.
NEXTCHEM (Maire) signs €4-MM grant with the EU to scale up proprietary chemical recycling technology
The grant will support the BOOST project, aimed at implementing the first commercial application of NXRe PMMA technology for the chemical recycling on continuous basis of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) scraps into high quality, added value intermediates
Univation launches new PE process to produce LDPE and EVA resins
Univation Technologies announced the launch of its latest licensed technology platform – a tubular high-pressure PE process enabling production of both low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and ethyl-vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer resins which is offered under the brand name UNIGILITY™ Tubular High Pressure PE Process Technology.
Valmet announces upgrade to D3 distributed control system
Using Valmet’s D3 distributed control system (DCS) automation platform, industrial processors can now integrate numerous reliability and performance enhancements in the first significant update following its acquisition from NovaTech Automation last year.
Red Sea ships attacks push 47% more crude oil, fuels, refined products around Africa
Global crude oil and oil products shipments taking the long route between Asia, the Middle East and the West are up 47% since attacks began on vessels using the shorter Red Sea route.
- Singapore's largest data center to use Neste renewable diesel to power generators 9/12
- BASF inaugurates new plant for alkyl ethanolamines at its Antwerp Verbund site 9/12
- Ceres Power Holdings signs SOEC systems license with Thermax to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries 9/12
- Ineos to cease refinery operations at Grangemouth 9/12
- NewEnergyBlue acquires Inbicon biomass conversion technology and international patent portfolio 9/12
- Pertamina NRE ready to build bioethanol plant, optimizing domestic resources 9/12
