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Elusive Carbonic Acid: It Really Exists!
11/22/2022
The existence of carbonic acid has long been the subject of debate: theoretically real, but practically impossible to detect. That is because the compound decomposes at the Earth’s surface. A German-Chinese team of researchers working at the FRM II Research Neutron Source at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now made the crystalline structure of carbonic acid molecules visible for the first time.
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VNG And Total Eren To Cooperate In Green Hydrogen Importation Projects
11/22/2022
VNG AG, the German gas company based in Leipzig, and Total Eren, a leading renewable energy Independent Power Producer (“IPP”) based in Paris, are pleased to announce that they are joining forces for the development of green ammonia imports in Europe.
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KPCT To Build Semiconductor Chemical Manufacturing Facility In Casa Grande
11/22/2022
KPCT Advanced Chemicals, a joint venture between Kanto Group, a leading semiconductor chemical supplier based in Taiwan and Chemtrade Logistics Inc., the leading North American producer of electronic grade sulfuric acid, announced today plans to build an electronic grade sulphuric acid manufacturing plant in Casa Grande, Arizona.
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Circular Economy: TotalEnergies And Air Liquide Innovate To Produce Renewable, Low Carbon Hydrogen At The Grandpuits Zero Crude Platform
11/22/2022
TotalEnergies and Air Liquide are innovating to produce and valorize renewable, low carbon hydrogen at the Grandpuits zero crude platform. Under a long-term contract committing TotalEnergies to purchase the hydrogen produced for the needs of its platform, Air Liquide will invest over €130M in the construction and operation of a new unit producing hydrogen.
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LyondellBasell Makes Decision To Progress Advanced Recycling Plant In Wesseling, Germany
11/18/2022
LyondellBasell today announces it has made a decision to move forward with engineering to build an advanced recycling plant at its Wesseling, Germany, site. Using LyondellBasell's proprietary MoReTec technology, this commercial scale advanced recycling plant would convert pre-treated plastic waste into feedstock for new plastic production.
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Babcock & Wilcox Awarded $24M Contract For Package Boilers And Environmental Equipment For North American Petroleum Refinery
11/17/2022
Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) announced today that its B&W Thermal and B&W Environmental business segments have been awarded a contract for more than $24M to supply two industrial package boilers, auxiliary equipment and advanced emissions control technologies for a petroleum refinery in North America.
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How Fine Bubbles Lead To More Efficient Catalysts
11/17/2022
Catalysts are of utmost relevance for the production of chemicals and energy storage with hydrogen. Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now discovered that the formation of bubbles in the pores of a catalyst can be essential for its activity.
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‘Making Plastic With Captured Carbon Dioxide’
11/17/2022
LG Chem will construct an innovative carbon mitigation facility that will produce raw materials for plastics using carbon dioxide to build its foundation to achieve 2050 Net Zero.
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LyondellBasell Evaluates Propylene Expansion Project
11/17/2022
LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) today announced it is evaluating the expansion of its propylene production capacity at its Channelview Complex near Houston, TX. The potential expansion would involve building a new propylene facility using LyondellBasell's existing technology to convert ethylene into propylene for use in the production of polypropylene and propylene oxide.
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Air Products And Mabanaft Plan To Build Large-Scale Green Energy Import Terminal In Hamburg
11/17/2022
Today, Air Products and Mabanaft, through its subsidiary Oiltanking Deutschland, announced their intention to build Germany's first large-scale, green energy import terminal in the Port of Hamburg.