Polymers
GAIL to invest $6 B in new ethane cracker in India
GAIL India plans to invest $6 B in a new 1.5-MMtpy ethane cracking unit in Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Tackle operational challenges with FCC coprocessing applications
Refiners are actively developing new solutions to decarbonize their finished products—such as transportation fuels or commodity chemicals—as part of the energy transition. As a result, refiners are now exploring the co-feeding of alternative feedstocks, including renewable and recyclable crude oils, as a means of lowering the carbon footprint of their products.
Executive Viewpoint: Petrochemicals transition, operational sustainability and new pathways for light olefins production
Welcome to Hydrocarbon Processing’s Executive Series. In this enhanced video platform, the editors speak with the operators and technology leaders and suppliers that are optimizing the global hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI).
Sustainability and the Energy Transition: The pyrolysis of plastic wastes: A techno-economic analysis
Plastics are some of the most vastly used materials in modern life. They are the building block of products manufactured by almost every sector, including packaging, building and construction, textiles, consumer products, transportation, electrical and electronics, and industrial machinery.
Lummus and Sumitomo Chemical to collaborate on circular and polyolefins technologies
Lummus Technology and Sumitomo Chemical announced two collaboration agreements to license and commercialize LDPE, EVA and rPMMA technologies.
Pakistan-China to sign MoU on oil-to-chemicals complex in June
During Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's visit to Beijing in June, China and Pakistan are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on a crude-to-petrochemical refinery project.
AMETEK Land provides thermal imagers to large ethylene producer
AMETEK Land has provided a large U.S. ethylene producer with 28 thermal imagers to provide continuous, highly precise, temperature measurements for optimum process control in its four cracking furnaces.
BASF expands its biomass balance portfolio for selected chemical intermediates
BASF will expand its biomass balance offering to include BMBCertTM 1,4-butanediol (BDO), tetra-hydrofuran (THF), polytetra¬hydrofuran (PolyTHF®) and 3-(di¬methyl¬amino)pro¬pyl¬amine (DMAPA).
INEOS Inovyn launches next-generation recycling pilot plants to strengthen Europe’s PVC recycling
INEOS Inovyn launches two new PVC pilot plants at our Jemeppe-sur-Sambre site in Belgium, to accelerate technologies for recycling PVC which are not mechanically recyclable today.
MOL inaugurated its €1.3-B, 200,000-tpy polyol complex in Tiszaújváros, Hungary
MOL inaugurated its €1.3-B, 200,000-tpy polyol complex in Tiszaújváros, Hungary.
- px Group signs LOIs for major SAF and green hydrogen/ammonia projects in Europe 6/19
- How TotalEnergies is utilizing hydrogen to decarbonize its refineries in Europe 6/19
- Oil tanker market signals more Middle East energy disruption ahead 6/19
- Yokogawa collaborates with Shell on robotics and AI technology for plant maintenance 6/19
- Alder Process Technology uses APS to produce low-carbon marine fuels 6/19
- Yokogawa celebrates 50th anniversary of CENTUM DCS: A pioneering achievement 6/19
