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  India’s first floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) FSRU Höegh Giant has arrived at H-Energy’s Jaigarh Terminal in Maharashtra on Monday, April 12, 2021, from Keppel Shipyard, Singapore. An FSRU is a special type of ship used for transiting and transferring Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) through the oceanic channels. The 2017-built Höegh Giant has a storage capacity of 170,000 cubic metres and an installed regasification capacity of 750 million cubic feet per day (equivalent to about 6 million tonnes, per year). H-Energy has chartered the FSRU for a 10 year period. Höegh Giant will deliver regasified LNG to the 56-kilometre long Jaigarh-Dabhol natural gas pipeline, connecting the LNG terminal to the national gas grid. The facility will also deliver LNG through truck loading facilities for onshore distribution, the facility is also capable to reload LNG onto small-scale LNG vessels for bunkering services. H-Energy also intends to develop a small-scale LNG market in the region,

  CANNABIS CULTURE – Israeli-based Technologies firm  Eybna  says a recently discovered combination of terpenes and CBD has the potential to  manage the symptoms of COVID-19 , and may even prevent infection altogether.  We used our database and advanced data-mining and formulation design methodologies to research and isolate terpenes with  elevated anti-inflammatory properties  and optimize their ratios.” Says Nadav Eyal CEO and co-founder of Eybna. “This enabled us to develop and manufacture a patented data-driven terpene formulation that is effective, safe, and synergetic. For the last 6 years, Eybna has been studying the therapeutic benefits of the cannabis plant and its phytochemicals for use in adult wellness products.  When COVID-19 first emerged, Eybna partnered with  CannaSoul  to analyze the potential of terpenes and cannabis phytotoxins.  Eyal states, “With the lack of safe anti-inflammatory pharmaceutical drugs, we decided to put our knowledge and formulation technology to t

  The European plastics converting industry is facing severe shortages of raw materials and extreme price increases never experienced. This situation is threatening the economic survival of numerous SMEs but also endangering the production of countless products, ranging from applications in the building and automotive industry to essential goods for the food packaging and pharmaceutical supply chains. Increased Raw Material Scarcity Impacting Businesses The more than 50,000 SMEs that form the plastics converting industry in Europe are under severe pressure, still recovering from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and now faced with a raw material scarcity that not only dramatically increased their cost of production but threatens to stop it altogether. Recent surveys amongst plastics converters in several Member States have shown that more than 90% of them are affected by this supply crisis and many are forced to reduce their production and accept less or no new customers to be able

  Sun-scorched expanses and steady Red Sea breezes make the northwest tip of Saudi Arabia prime real estate for what the kingdom hopes will become a global hub for green hydrogen. As governments and industries seek less-polluting alternatives to hydrocarbons, the world’s biggest crude exporter doesn’t want to cede the burgeoning hydrogen business to China, Europe or Australia and lose a potentially massive source of income. So it’s building a $5 billion plant powered entirely by sun and wind that will be among the world’s bigg est green hydrogen makers when it opens in the planned megacity of Neom in 2025 The task of turning a patch of desert the size of Belgium into a metropolis powered by renewable energy falls to Peter Terium, the former chie . f executive officer of RWE AG, Germany’s biggest utility, and clean-energy spinoff Innogy SE. His performance will help determine whether a country dependent on petrodollars can transition into a supplier of non-polluting fuels. “There’s noth

  New research has shown for the first time how long cannabis users are likely to be impaired and when it may be safe for them to drive. The findings, researchers and advocates say, strengthen the case for changes to drug-driving laws in much of Australia. Researchers from the Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics at the University of Sydney discovered users were impaired for between three and 10 hours after taking moderate to high doses of the intoxicating component of cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). THC can be detected in the body for weeks after cannabis consumption, meaning users can face fines and loss of their licence, despite being unaffected by the drug. The research, published in Neuroscience & Behavioural Reviews, analysed 80 scientific studies on the effect of THC on driving performance conducted over the past 20 years. It found the exact level of impairment depended on the dose, whether the THC was taken orally or inhaled and how often the person used th

  NPL, in collaboration with international partners, has developed an ISO/IEC standard, ISO/TS 21356-1:2021, for measuring the structural properties of   graphene , typically sold as powders or in a liquid dispersion. The ISO/IEC standard allows the supply chain to answer the question ‘what is my material?’ and is based on methods developed with The University of Manchester in the NPL Good Practice Guide 145. Verified Quality Control Methods In conjunction with the international ISO/IEC terminology standard led by NPL, ISO/TS 80004-13:2017, it will be possible for commercially available material to be correctly measured and labelled as graphene, few-layer graphene or graphite. As the UK’s National Metrology Institute, NPL has been developing and standardizing the required metrologically-robust methods for the measurement of graphene and related 2D materials to enable industry to use these materials and realize novel and improved products across many application areas. The continuation

  Apart from pilots and sea captains, most of us use either the Imperial or the metric system when calculating how far we need to get to where we are going. However, aviation navigation has adopted the ways of its marine counterpart, as it also travels across distances great enough to cross several latitudal lines. Not to mention to save air traffic control a great deal of potential confusion when communicating with international pilots. One sixtieth of a latitudal degree As the term ‘nautical’ would imply, the usage is a crossover from seafaring navigation. The NM is based on the circumference of the Earth. For a weekend cruise on a sailboat or a short European domestic hop, the fact that we live on a sphere hurtling through space and wobbling around its own axis is not of great importance. Meanwhile, when traveling long great circle distances, you want to use a unit that is directly related to latitude and longitude. Historically, one nautical mile was defined as one minute arc of la