Technology

LyondellBasell polyolefin tech selected for China Coal Shaanxi chemical complex

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LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB), the world’s largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, announced that China Coal Shaanxi Yulin Energy & Chemical Co., Ltd. (China Coal Shaanxi), will use the LyondellBasell Spherizone, Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process (Hostalen ACP) and Lupotech T technology for its new facility.  The process technology will be used for a 300 kilotons per annum (KTA) Spherizone polypropylene plant, a 300 KTA Hostalen ACP high-density … Read more

Pusri to select KBR tech for new ammonia plant in Indonesia

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KBR announced that its PurifierTM ammonia technology has been selected by PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang (Pusri), a subsidiary of PT Pupuk Indonesia for its planned Pusri 3B Ammonia Plant to be built in South Sumatera Province, Indonesia. This will be KBR’s twelfth ammonia plant licensed to Pupuk Indonesia.  Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide … Read more

ABEL Energy selects Johnson Matthey’s methanol technology 

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Australian green hydrogen and methanol project developer, ABEL Energy, has confirmed the selection of Johnson Matthey (JM) and SunGas Renewables as the suppliers for two of the key technologies to be deployed for the Bell Bay Powerfuels Project in Northern Tasmania. ABEL Energy has been working closely with JM and SunGas Renewables on the design and … Read more

Indian Oil once more selected process technology from LyondellBasell

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LyondellBasell, the world’s largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, today announced that Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL) has selected LyondellBasell’s Hostalen “Advanced Cascade Process” (Hostalen ACP) technology for a new 200 kiloton per year (KTA) high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant. The new facility will be built in Panipat, India.  “This new license award by IOCL represents the second Hostalen ACP process technology line … Read more

Lummus Acquires Acrylic Acid and Acrylates Technology

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Lummus Technology, a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions, announced that it has reached an agreement with Air Liquide Engineering & Construction to acquire rights to license and market ester grade acrylic acid technology, and light and heavy acrylates process technology. The addition expands Lummus’ portfolio for propylene production and derivative products, … Read more

MAIRE awarded USD 8.7 billion contract by ADNOC

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MAIRE announced that Tecnimont, part of the Integrated E&C Solutions business unit, today signed a Letter of Award with ADNOC for the onshore processing plant of the Hail and Ghasha Development Project. The award was signed at ADIPEC, the world’s largest energy summit. The Hail and Ghasha project is aimed to operate with net-zero CO2 emissions, in … Read more

Sinopec NZRCC picks Lummus’ PP Tech for large-scale plant in China

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Lummus Technology, a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions, announced a contract from Sinopec Ningbo Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Co. Ltd. (Sinopec NZRCC), a subsidiary of the Sinopec Group and its flagship refining and petrochemical company. Sinopec NZRCC will license Lummus’ Novolen® technology for a new 500-kilo-ton per annum polypropylene plant in Ningbo, China. “With … Read more

KBR’s H2ACT chosen for World’s 1st NH3 Cracking Unit by Hanwha Impact Corp

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KBR announced today it has been awarded a license and engineering design contract by Hanwha Impact Corporation for the world’s first commercial ammonia cracking unit using KBR’s leading H2ACTSM technology in Daesan, Republic of Korea. In this largest capacity ammonia cracking plant announced to date, clean hydrogen will serve a planned power plant in Daesan, … Read more

Evonik Commences Propylene Oxide Production at New HPPO Complex in China

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Operations have begun at leading chemical producer Qixiang Tengda’s new propylene oxide complex in Zibo City, China, using technology from Evonik and thyssenkrupp Uhde. The technologically integrated setup offers significant ecological and economic benefits compared to conventional production methods for propylene oxide. With the capacity to produce 300,000 tons of propylene oxide each year, the … Read more

LyondellBasell licenses Lupotech T technology to Jiangsu Fenghai

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LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) announced that Jiangsu Fenghai High-Tech Materials Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Fenghai) has selected the LyondellBasell Lupotech T high-pressure polyethylene technology for a new production site.    The Lupotech T process technology will be used for a 200 kiloton per year (KTA) vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) line. The new line will be located in Lianyungang, … Read more

India’s BHEL signs MoU with Greenstat for Hydrogen Tech

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Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Greenstat Hydrogen India to explore future collaboration opportunities in green hydrogen and derivatives in the hydrogen value chain. BHEL in a statement said that the MoU is for “Potential Collaboration Opportunities in Green Hydrogen and Derivatives in the Hydrogen Value Chain. This MoU … Read more

LyondellBasell PE tech selected for PetroChina Guangxi complex

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LyondellBasell announced that PetroChina Guangxi Petrochemical Company will license the LyondellBasell polyethylene technology at their facility located in Qinzhou City, Guangxi, P.R. of China. The newly licensed technology will comprise the LyondellBasell leading high-pressure Lupotech process technology which will be used for both a 100 kiloton per year (KTA) Autoclave and a 300 KTA Tubular … Read more

Syclus licenses Axens tech for Dutch renewable ethanol-to-ethylene plant

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Syclus intends to build and operate a plant for the production of renewable ethylene from sustainable ethanol in Chemelot Industrial Park, Geleen, Netherlands. With an annual production capacity in the range of 100,000 tonnes, this renewable ethanol-to-ethylene production plant would be a first in Europe, paving the way for a more sustainable way of producing … Read more

Sasa Polyester to build largest PDH plant in Turkey with Honeywell Tech

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Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş. will build the world’s largest Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in Yumurtalık, Türkiye using the latest generation of Honeywell Oleflex technology. The facility will have the capacity to produce 1 million tons of propylene per year. The Honeywell UOP Oleflex process is used to produce … Read more

Johnson Matthey to provide tech for the world’s largest butanediol plant

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Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable technologies, is set to supply Fujian Zhongjing Petrochemical Group with the latest butanediol (BDO) technology. This technology is essential for the production of bio-degradable plastics (PBAT), as China intensifies its efforts to eliminate single-use plastics and combat pollution. The construction of three BDO plants will take place in … Read more

Alujain Selects Lummus for New Propylene Plant in Saudi Arabia

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Lummus Technology, a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions, announced Alujain National Industrial Co. has selected its C3 CATOFIN® propane dehydrogenation (PDH) technology for their new propylene plant in Yanbu, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This is the first time Alujain will license Lummus’ PDH technology at its Yanbu complex. “We are … Read more

Orion’s Louisiana Plant Installs Cogeneration Technology

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Orion Engineered Carbons, a specialty chemicals company, announced that cogeneration technology that produces renewable energy has been installed at its Ivanhoe plant in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana, making the facility more efficient, reliable, and sustainable. The cogeneration system, which includes a steam turbine generator, uses the waste steam from the carbon black plant’s … Read more

Technip Energies awarded Contract for PDO and PTT Plants in China

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Technip Energies has been awarded a contract by Ningbo Juhua Chemical & Science Co., Ltd. (Juhua) for a 1,3-propanediol (PDO) plant with a capacity of 72 kta (kilo tons per annum) and a 150 kta poly trimethylene terephthalate (PTT) plant in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. These two products are based on Technip Energies’ proprietary Zimmer® PDO … Read more

Aramco and Linde Engineering to develop ammonia cracking technology

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Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, and Linde Engineering, a global leader in the production and processing of gases, announced that they have signed an agreement to jointly develop a new ammonia cracking technology. The collaboration between the two companies will combine Linde Engineering and Aramco’s experience and capabilities in … Read more