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Portugal closes its last remaining coal plant

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Portugal has shuttered its last remaining coal plant, becoming the fourth country in the European Union to do so, along with Austria, Belgium, and Sweden. more… The post Portugal closes its last remaining coal plant appeared first on Electrek.

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ArcelorMittal inaugurates €200M Steelanol carbon capture and utilization project at Ghent plant

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At an event held at its steel plant in Ghent, Belgium, ArcelorMittal inaugurated its flagship carbon capture and utilization (CCU) project. Earlier post.) The €200-million Steelanol project is a first of its kind for the European steel industry. It will reduce annual carbon emissions from the Ghent plant by 125,000 tonnes.

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Honeywell UOP’s Methanol To Olefins technology selected for China coal chemical complex

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has selected Honeywell’s UOP technology to convert methanol into building blocks for chemical products at an existing coal chemical complex in China. The MTO process technology has been successfully demonstrated in a semi-commercial-scale unit built by Total Petrochemicals in Feluy, Belgium. Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Co.,

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ArcelorMittal Europe to produce “green steel” starting in 2020

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The project will reduce the volumes of coal needed in the iron ore reduction process, thereby cutting CO2 emissions. At ArcelorMittal Fos-sur-Mer (France) a study is underway in collaboration with partner Lanzatech to build a second Carbalyst plant in addition to the one under construction at ArcelorMittal Gent (Belgium).

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ExxonMobil to invest >$1B in Antwerp refinery to convert heavy, higher sulfur residual oil into diesel, other products

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ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Belgium, a division of ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical B.V.B.A., Coking is a refinery operation that upgrades heavier oil fractions from the atmospheric or vacuum distillation column into higher-value products and produces petroleum coke—a coal-like material.

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Calor introduces Neste BioLPG to the UK market; targeting fully renewable by 2040

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The UK government’s Clean Growth Strategy outlines ambitious new policies to phase out the use of high carbon fossil fuels such as heating oil and coal typically used off the gas grid for domestic heat during the 2020s.

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Honeywells UOP and Total Petrochemicals Successfully Demonstrate Methanol-to-Olefins Technology to Produce Plastics

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A demonstration unit built by Total Petrochemicals at its complex in Feluy, Belgium, has used UOP/Hydro MTO methanol-to-olefins technology to convert methanol to ethylene and propylene. Methanol is commonly produced from natural gas and coal. Earlier post.) The propylene was then successfully converted to polypropylene product.

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