Huntsman Corporation officially opened a new innovation centre in Tienen, Belgium on June 13th, 2024, strengthening its research and development (R&D) capabilities and reinforcing its commitment to its customers in the region. The new 11,000-square-metre facility comprises a world-scale analytical laboratory; two machine halls; and fully equipped and automated product testing facilities. Together, these assets boost Huntsman’s ability to perform the entire product innovation journey from the formulation of initial ideas at laboratory scale through to the manufacture of novel systems and samples ready for customers to trial.
The innovation centre is home to more than 100 scientists from the company’s Polyurethanes and Performance Products businesses and will support the application of Huntsman technologies in key anti-corrosion markets, including adhesives, coatings and sealants; automotive; elastomers; energy; furniture and bedding, and insulation. Source: https://www.huntsman.com/
Thursday – June 20th, 2024: Aramco, a global integrated energy and chemicals company, has announced the implementation of the leading corrosion under insulation (CUI) monitoring solution, provided by CorrosionRADAR, at Ju’aymah NGL Fractionation Plant. The Ju’aymah NGL Fractionation Plant has installed CorrosionRADAR at selective locations critical for CUI monitoring. This initiative aims to enhance the plant’s safety and reliability, aligning with Aramco’s mission of reliable energy supply.
The CorrosionRADAR technology is expected to enable plant engineers to address CUI issues more rapidly before major damage occurs, improve safety, reliability, optimise inspection planning, and reduce the overall costs associated with future maintenance and shutdowns.
bp and Worley have formed a new strategic alliance focused on enhancing efficiency, continuous improvement and value creation across bp’s Global site projects organisation.
This alliance builds upon a successful, decade-long collaboration between the two companies. The alliance will improve capital efficiency in site projects saving an initial estimated US$40 million over two years in locations where Worley holds a services contract; Gulf of Mexico, Oman, Mauritania and Senegal oil and gas producing regions and the Cherry Point, Whiting, Rotterdam, Gelsenkirchen, and Lingen refineries.
Together, bp and Worley will deepen collaboration across a portfolio of site projects by leveraging digital capability and global scale to further drive efficiency across engineering, materials selection and procurement, construction development and management.
The alliance formalises a long-standing relationship built on shared objectives, trust and commitment to excellence. It brings together and ring fences world-class technical expertise in a tight resource market.
The Ruwais LNG project, currently being developed in Al Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi, will be the first LNG export facility in the Middle East and Africa region to operate on clean power. The low-carbon facility will leverage AI, digitalisation, and the most cutting-edge technology to boost efficiency and safety throughout the plant.
Ruwais LNG, which comprises two LNG liquefaction trains with a total export capacity of 9.6 mmtpa, will more than double ADNOC’s LNG production output, and help meet the growing global demand for natural gas. In a year, the facility will produce enough LNG to power every home in the City of London for more than two years.
Paris, June 7th, 2024 – TotalEnergies and Air Products have signed a 15-year agreement for the annual supply in Europe of 70,000 tons of green hydrogen starting in 2030. This first long-term deal follows TotalEnergies’ call for tenders for the supply of 500,000 tons per year of green hydrogen to decarbonise TotalEnergies’ European refineries.
Under the agreement, Air Products will deliver at TotalEnergies’ Northern European refineries’ doorstep, green hydrogen from Air Products’ global supply network. This hydrogen will avoid around 700,000 tons of CO2 each year. The contract awarded to Air Products is a first step towards achieving TotalEnergies’ objective of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions from its operated oil and gas operations (Scope 1+2) by 40% by 2030 compared to 2015 levels.
Antonella Sardinella and Mariaenrica Frigione of University of Salento have provided an overview of the bio-based/sustainable materials proposed for the development of original coatings to protect concrete works in their recent review.
Traditional coatings involve the use of synthetic materials that are often toxic for human beings and the environment. Research is going on around the world for the development of new sustainable coatings made with bio-based or non-toxic materials using green technologies.
Following are qualities of a good coating:
Chemical inertness against substrates.
Good stability against acids, alkalis, UV radiations, heat, and oxidation.
Permeability to water vapor (the underlying concrete must still “breathe”).
Adequate adhesion to the substrate.
Non-toxic and non-dangerous to the environment and human beings.
In the field of construction, the sustainable products proposed as potential protective coatings for concrete substrates can be divided into: (i) geopolymers and (ii) natural bio-based substances, such as agricultural waste, oil, wax, cellulose and others.
GeopolymersThe low curing temperatures of geopolymers and their ability to be produced from a wide range of raw materials, including industrial waste (also known as secondary raw materials, or SRM), make them sustainable materials. Reusing (or recycling) solid waste, such as fly ash (FA), slag, and other active byproducts, can actually produce geopolymers by the alkaline activation of aluminosilicate precursors.
Coatings Based on Agricultural WasteAgricultural organic waste, i.e., products that are constantly generated, can be profitably exploited for different purposes, giving an economic value to the waste and reducing the costs of its disposal.
Vegetable Oil and Fatty AcidsRecently, vegetable oils have been used in technologies meant to preserve a substrate (like concrete), which can be a viable substitute for synthetic materials and a sustainable approach. The chemical structure and film-forming properties of oil and its derivatives actually make them useful in this field.
ProteinsVery recently, proteins have been proposed to develop coatings with good hydrophobic characteristics. Lysozyme, for instance, is composed of a microfiber network containing amyloid which, when applied to the surface of a metal, adheres to it and increases its resistance to corrosion.
CelluloseCellulose, the most abundant natural polymer on earth, is a low-cost renewable resource: it is generally recognised as a potential candidate for the production of green superhydrophobic coatings.
Plant-Based Wax CoatingsStarting from materials of vegetable origin dispersed in water, Morrissette et al. developed superhydrophobic self-cleaning coatings for different applications.
Advantages of These CoatingsThese are harmless to humans and the environment. They can be applied using the same techniques and methods as for traditional coatings, without additional costs. Waste materials can be used. Additionally, the studies carried out so far have especially highlighted the excellent protective properties offered by these materials, not considering any difficulties in the production processes and possible increased costs.
Challenges in Commercial ApplicationHigher production costs, scale-up problems, demand for high quantities of bio-based raw materials, competition with food and feed for the supply of raw materials, technological barriers, and including industrial conversion for new productions are some of the barriers that slow down the introduction of these materials to the market.
You can refer below article for more details:
Antonella Sarcinella and Mariaenrica Frigione, Sustainable and Bio-Based Coatings as Actual or Potential Treatments to Protect and PreserveConcrete, Coatings 2023, 13(1), 44;https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings13010044
IMAGE FROM: The Concrete Beneath the M32 Flyover, Inset, Some of the Corrosion Found During Safety Checks.
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