Hexagon Agility receives new order from Xpress Natural Gas (XNG) for Mobile Pipeline® modules to meet customer demand for clean energy

Hexagon Agility, a business of Hexagon Composites, received a new order from Xpress Natural Gas LLC (XNG), a leading full-service provider of compressed natural gas (CNG) in the United States, to deliver Mobile Pipeline® modules to transport clean and renewable natural gas (RNG).

This order has an estimated value of USD 14.8 million.

Delivering safe and innovative solutions:
“We look forward to continuing to grow our relationship with Hexagon Agility as a key supplier to XNG as we work to provide safe, reliable cleaner energy solutions to an increasing number of customers and sectors unserved by traditional energy pipelines” said Simon Richards, Chief Executive Officer at XNG. We’re really pleased to continue to expand our fleet with Hexagon Agility’s Mobile Pipeline products. “TITAN 53 modules, allow us to safely and efficiently deliver CNG to communities with the fewest number of trips. As we continue to expand our market areas Hexagon products give us the flexibility to serve all types of industries and end users seeking a lower carbon, less expensive energy solution.”

No pipeline. No problem. TITAN® 53 modules offer the highest capacity in North America and can serve multiple communities and industries that do not have access to natural gas or lack sufficient pipeline capacity to meet anticipated demand.

“The Northeastern part of the United States continues to struggle from a lack of infrastructure to deliver natural gas to the region" said Seung Baik, President of Hexagon Agility. “The winter season is particularly challenging. We are pleased to work with XNG to help keep homes warm and factories running."

About the market
Mobile Pipeline is vital to driving energy transformation away from petroleum fuels to clean and renewable natural gas. Companies like XNG are leaders in the industry, enabling customers without pipeline access to adopt natural gas and meet their environmental goals.
Natural gas is today’s low carbon, cost effective alternative energy. RNG is pipeline quality gas fully compatible with today’s infrastructure and Mobile Pipeline equipment. Because RNG is the only carbon negative energy source, it is being rapidly adopted to drive decarbonization of industrial and vehicle fleet operations.
With more than 1,800 Mobile Pipeline modules now deployed around the world, Hexagon Agility continues to set the standard for safety, reliability, and performance.
Timing
The modules are expected to be delivered in the second quarter of 2023.

Source:Hexagongroup

Shell and Raízen sign 3.2 billion litre cellulosic ethanol deal

Oil and gas major Shell has agreed to purchase a total of 3.25 billion litres of sugarcane-based cellulosic ethanol under a long-term agreement with Brazil’s Raízen.

The low-carbon fuel is expected to be produced by five plants that Raízen plans to build in Brazil - bringing its total portfolio of cellulosic ethanol facilities in the Latin American country to nine.

Shell contributed the cellulosic ethanol technology during the formation of Raízen, a joint venture with Cosan in 2011.

Since then, Raízen has developed and scaled-up the process for making low-carbon intensity ethanol from sugar-cane waste.

The new plants will enable Raízen to operate highly integrated bio-energy parks, while the supply deal will help Shell with its strategy of becoming a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050.

Andrew Smith, executive vice president for Shell Trading and Supply, said: “Global demand for sustainable fuels is growing. Combining Raízen’s innovative sugar-cane waste technology with Shell’s global distribution network and customer relationships will help to meet that demand.”

By making use of sugarcane waste, Raízen’s second-generation ethanol (E2G) technology can produce about 50% more ethanol from the same amount of land.

The new plants, the first of which is expected to begin production in 2025, will enable Raízen to provide significantly more low-carbon fuel without creating land-use competition with food crops.

Raízen expects to invest around $1.5 billion (€1.5 billion) in the plants, the last of which is expected to be operational by the end of 2027, at the latest.

Ricardo Mussa, CEO of Raízen, added: “Large-scale production of sugar-cane based cellulosic ethanol will position Raízen as a leading global provider of waste-based, low-carbon fuels and feedstock to replace fossil fuels.

“The size of this deal underscores that our E2G technology has achieved commercial scale and is able to support our customers’ decarbonisation journeys around the globe.”

Source:Biofuels-news

Amcor Develops Technology for 50% Lighter PET Bottles

 Taking a quantum leap forward in reducing weight in packaging, Amcor Rigid Packaging (ARP) has developed a revolutionary two-step, lightweighting technology that eliminates more than 50% of the material and weight in the finish of the bottle.

100% Recycled Material Use:

A leader in developing technology that produces more sustainable packaging options, ARP’s new Quantum™ technology for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles delivers sustainability benefits, lowers cost, and improves packaging appearance.

By removing more than 50% of the material and weight from the finish, the new Quantum™ technology reduces manufacturing costs and GHG emissions, resulting in energy savings and lower carbon emissions compared to bottles with a traditional finish. Quantum™ technology also allows for up to 100% recycled material use and provides a superior consumer experience with a more sustainable, fully recyclable package.

“Our customers and consumers alike are looking for ways to support the circular economy and eliminate waste, and our engineers have developed a new technology that meets their needs and advances more sustainable packaging,” said Terry Patcheak, vice president of R&D, Sustainability and Project Management at ARP. “We’re helping our customers support source reduction, reduce material use and reduce weight, which means a lighter and more sustainable package.”

70% Less Greenhouse-gas Emissions:

Initially developed for the spirits industry, the Quantum™ optimized finish technology can be used for packaging in multiple segments including healthcare, home and personal care, food and dairy.

PET, which has rapidly become the world’s preferred packaging material, is lightweight, shatterproof, reclosable, resealable, reusable, and infinitely recyclable. In addition, PET bottles often have the lowest carbon footprint, and their production results in up to 70% fewer greenhouse-gas emissions than other packaging materials, according to Amcor’s lifecycle analysis.

Source: Amcor/omnexus.specialchem

German 1st research vessel with methanol drive christened

The Alfred Wegener Institute’s new eco-friendly research vessel Uthörn has been christened at Fassmer shipyard in Berne. 

As informed, the vessel, measuring 35 meters in length, will be the first seagoing German ship powered by environmentally friendly, low-emission methanol.

In addition to a large working deck with dry and wet laboratories, Uthörn features two derrick booms for trawling nets and water samplers, a multi-frequency echosounder for detecting and identifying schools of fish, and an anti-roll tank, which can stabilise the ship on choppy seas. 

The new vessel will operate in the North Sea, focusing on the area around the Alfred Wegener Institute’s island station in Helgoland.

“The new Uthörn sets standards as the first German seagoing vessel with methanol propulsion. The Alfred Wegener Institute and the Fassmer company have succeeded in building a sustainable, low-emission and innovative research vessel on which we can only congratulate them,” Bettina Stark-Watzinger, from Federal Minister of Education and Research commented.

“As a central pillar of coastal research at the AWI, the Uthörn regularly monitors the physical, chemical and biological status of the North Sea in the German Bight and near Helgoland. By doing so, the ship provides us with valuable and critical long-term data, allowing us to better gauge climate change and its impacts on the marine environment,” Karen Wiltshire, Head of Coastal Research at the Alfred Wegener Institute added.

Being a carbon-neutral solution, which is readily available today, methanol is gaining in popularity in the maritime sector, especially having in mind that other alternatives such as ammonia have a long way to go before becoming more mainstream.

Together with Bremerhaven-based partners from research and industry, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has readied a proposal for a synthetic methanol production facility in Bremerhaven, which could be approved by the end of the year.

In a pilot project, renewable electricity from a wind turbine would be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen via electrolysis.

In the next step, this “green” hydrogen and CO2 from a nearby sewage treatment plant could be used to synthesise “green” methanol, which, when burnt, only releases the amount of CO2 that was captured during its production.

The key benefits of methanol include its density, which doesn’t affect the load capacity of ships, the fact that it is relatively safe to bunker, and that it has an attractive price. It is believed that methanol can reduce sulfur oxides by 99%, nitrogen oxides by 80%, and carbon emissions by 25% compared to conventional fuel.

Source:offshore-energy.biz

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Hyundai Steps up Hydrogen Investment by $6.7 Billion Committment

The Hyundai Group has announced a massive investment in hydrogen, committing $6.7 billion towards “the fuel of the future.”

Scott Phillips, Chief Investment Officer at Motley Fool told Oliver Peterson on Perth Live that hydrogen should be in the mix for our automotive future.

“When you block off potential ideas, when you simply say we think the race has been won and done…I think that’s a mistake,” he told Oly.

“I just think this is a smart idea, if you think about what hydrogen offers, a six kilo hydrogen tank can take you about as far as a standard full tank of petrol or diesel.”

Source:hydrogen-central

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2. From one hectare of cannabis, you get the same amount of paper as 4 hectares of forest.

3. Trees make recyclable paper 3 times while hemp makes recyclable paper 8 times. Hemp paper is the best and most durable.

5. Hemp plants are a radiation trap. Cannabis plantations purify the air.

6. Hemp can be grown anywhere in the world, it needs very little water. Furthermore, because it can defend itself against parasites, it doesn't need pesticides.

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9. Cannabis is banned in Bulgaria. But technical cannabis does not contain a drug and can be grown freely.

10. The protein value of cannabis seeds is very high and two fatty acids contained in it cannot be found anywhere else in nature.

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