http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com Hydrocarbon Processing http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/07/lotte-chemical-develops-high-intensity-flame-resistant-pp-products-for-electric-vehicle-batteries/ LOTTE Chemical has developed high-intensity, flame-resistant polypropylene products that can delay thermal runaway in electric vehicle batteries. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/06/technip-energies-acquires-technology-from-shell-to-accelerate-bio-polyester-production/ Technip Energies and Shell Catalysts & Technologies announce a technology transfer agreement which accelerates the commercialization of Technip Energies’ Bio-2-Glycols technology for bio-based mono ethylene glycol (MEG) production from glucose. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/06/mammoet-completes-heavy-haul-for-portugals-sines-industrial-complexs-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.   http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/06/new-energy-blue-and-arcomurray-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. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2024/june-2024/refinery-and-petrochemical-integration/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. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2024/june-2024/trends-and-resources/global-project-data/ Spotlight on Asia http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/06/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 http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/06/grace-licenses-unipol-polypropylene-technology-to-bharat-petroleum-corp-ltd/ W. R. Grace announced that Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), the second largest Indian oil marketing company, has expanded its licenses for Grace’s UNIPOL® polypropylene (PP) process technology. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/06/basf-researching-co2-neutral-production-of-bio-based-fumarate-using-bacteria-found-in-cow-stomachs/ With the bacterium Basfia succiniciproducens, BASF would like to transform sugar and carbon dioxide into fumaric acid, an important intermediate for chemical production. http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/06/borealis-to-establish-recyclate-based-polyolefins-compounding-line-in-belgium/ Borealis announced the installation of a semi-commercial demonstration recyclate-based polyolefins (rPO) compounding line in Beringen, Belgium.