Welcome to our April issue, which casts a critical eye over that mainstay of industrial gas production, air gases. It has been an interesting 12 months. The story of air separation units (ASUs), which make most of the world’s air gases, is one that’s tied up with energy – its cost and its sourcing. That’s because ASUs are huge uses of electrons, around the clock and all over the world. So even if the ASU tech that separates out air gases is stable and well-understood and generally predictable, the energy side of the equation is anything but.
A controversial ocean carbon capture experiment in St Ives Bay, Cornwall, in the UK has been cancelled by the company involved as commercially unviable.
Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation is participating in a demonstration project for the development of a hydrogen-based fluidised bed fine ore reduction (HYFOR) process and electric smelting furnace in partnership with Mitsubishi-owned, UK-based metals company Primetals Technologies.
Roy Calder, Industry Principal – New Energies at AVEVA, discusses the importance of upskilling and its role in workplace development, on gasworld’s Digitisation webinar.
The UK government has approved plans for a 55km carbon capture pipeline in eastern England.
Technology breakthroughs can change the cost base in established industrial gas markets – as well as unlocking new opportunities. The message comes from Steven Schuermans, CEO of Belgian CO2-reduction company Solveno Technologies.
Electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (Twh), according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
Norwegian multinational energy company Equinor has formed a new power division which combines its renewables portfolio with its power offering.
David Schaer, President at Computers Unlimited, discusses the role of telemetry, monitoring and automation in bulk gases and how this is set to evolve, on gasworld’s Digitisation webinar.
The US position of using tariffs as a commercial negotiating tool appears to be bearing fruit in places, with Taiwan considering tripling US LNG imports to avoid tariffs.
EU member states have postponed tariffs which were due to start 15 April by 90 days.
