LSB Industries, a US-based producer of ammonia and industrial chemicals, has agreed a deal with carbon capture developer Lapis Carbon Solutions to secure a pathway to full ownership of its El Dorado CCS project in Arkansas.
The selection of the post-combustion carbon capture technology to be implemented for a decarbonisation project is a crucial element during the early feasibility phases and it is strongly affected by the characteristics of the plant on which it has to be installed. NextChem highlights the comparative advantages of absorption technologies and the alternative opportunities of using a cryogenic configuration to reach the desired carbon capture rate.
A novel high-pressure regeneration (HPR) process for carbon capture in blue hydrogen applications is introduced by Dow as a new offering for reducing costs. The process combines a specially formulated solvent with a heat integration network to deliver the separated carbon dioxide at high pressure while reducing capital costs and equipment sizes.
Day two of CRU’s Nitrogen+Syngas Expoconference 2026 saw the conference move into its technical sessions, run in three parallel streams covering everything from low carbon hydrogen production, sustainable plants, emissions reductions, carbon capture, ammonia plant operations, syngas and methanol production to asset safety and maintenance. Blue ammonia One of the things that struck me most, […]
The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is maturing rapidly, and a succession of governance, standards and policy initiatives has been launched since 2020 to tackle weaknesses in integrity and scalability which have constrained uptake and undermined confidence.
Gas consumption is rebounding in Europe as prices stabilise at lower levels, while the LNG market continues to see large capacity additions.
KPI evaluates deep decarbonisation pathways for a new build ammonia plant of 3,500 t/d on the US Gulf Coast. Eight technology configurations are compared with results providing a framework for technology selection, balancing emissions reduction, process integration, and indicative economics.
The US Department of Energy has agreed a $1.5 billion loan for the Indiana-based Wabash Valley Resources LLC to finance a coal-powered ammonia plant in West Terre Haute. The project will restart and repurpose a coal gasification plant that has been idled since 2016. However, previous plans to include carbon capture and storage in the project, as agreed as recently as May by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), appear to have been abandoned. The loan comes from the Trump administration’s Energy Dominance Financing Program financed via the so-called “big beautiful bill”. It aims to reduce US dependence on foreign sources of fertilizer and to provide domestic sources of consumption for America’s shrinking coal industry. The facility is aiming to produce 500,000 t/a of ammonia using coal from a mine in southern Indiana as well as petroleum coke as feedstock.
Topsoe has been selected as technology provider by Sandpiper Chemicals LLC, for their new blue methanol plant in Texas City, Texas. Topsoe will license its Syn-COR™ technology, which will be combined with carbon capture & storage (CCS) for the production of blue methanol. The project, when operational will produce 3,000 t/d of blue methanol. The IEA estimates that methanol demand is expected to grow to 120-150 million t/a by 2030. Today, methanol is primarily used within the chemical industry, but growing demand is coming from the shipping industry as it looks to lower emissions.
The carbon dioxide dehydration and compression unit at CF's production complex at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, is ready to start up.