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La captura, uso y almacenamiento geológico de CO2 (CCUS; Capture, Use and Storage, según el acrónimo en inglés, o CAUC, Captura, Transporte, Almacenamiento y Uso del CO2, en su acrónimo castellano) es una tecnología que proporciona una solución viable para un futuro sostenible, puesto que incide directamente en el problema que presentan los combustibles fósiles: las emisiones de CO2. Permite minimizar las emisiones y seguir consumiendo combustibles fósiles; ataca y resuelve el problema.

Vivimos un momento de inflación en el que el encarecimiento del petróleo y el gas provocan un terreno de tensión en la actividad económica y productiva del tejido empresarial. Ante esta situación, las empresas deben introducir nuevos modelos energéticos que apuesten por las energías renovables.

Los desarrollos tecnológicos y, sobre todo, la cada vez mayor concienciación y exigencia del cuidado del medioambiente y la necesidad de garantizar el suministro, han convertido a la energía nuclear –desde hace más de 50 años en España y aún más en otros países del mundo- en uno de los pilares fundamentales del sistema energético global y de la transición energética en marcha.

Hace unos años –no demasiados- se nos hablaba del avance hacia el Horizonte 2020 como algo muy necesario y positivo y que cualquier persona o entidad debería entender como suyo, y estar integrado plenamente en ello.

Hydrogen, while still being an essential reactant in oil refining to produce clean hydrocarbon fuels, will play a fundamental role as sustainable fuel to reach global decarbonisation in 2050. National and international, institutional and private collaboration and initiatives must and are facilitating the transition.

This article analyzes the role that green hydrogen maintains in the current industrial sector. In addition to analyzing the characteristics of this clean fuel, and answering the questions that arise in the face of what has come to be called the “hydrogen boom”, the author dwells on the technological challenges involved in its implementation and the answers that are offering the industry for the equipment of a green hydrogen plant.

Energy has been the basis of economic prosperity of developing and industrialized nations in the last decades. The energy demand continues to grow steadily and replacement of fossil fuels by renewable sources is an issue for both, policy makers and the public. This transition will involve massive investments in research, technological development, and new processes.  An overview of these factors is given in this study.  Among scientific and engineering areas, Chemical Engineering will play a key role to obtain alternative liquid fuels with low CO2 emissions, in a competitive economic environment.

Sustainability has become one of the biggest concern for the industry, due to their need to maintain their reputation as well as their bottom line. On other hand the stock market is is rewarding those companies that include sustainability as one of their main strategies. This challenge is particularly important for Chemist and Oil&Gas companies. For example, chemical industry is under particular pressure because it is the foundation of sustainability in many other industries like agriculture and fertilizers, housing, plastics, and pharma.

Although the current trend in Fine and Specialty Chemistry is to gradually replace traditional semi-batch processes with Flow Chemistry processes, which are safer, cleaner, and faster, most production continues to be semi-batch. This paper is devoted to recovering the basic concepts of thermal safety of such semi-batch processes.

As the internet is exponentially permeating daily life and work, in parallel, different events of cyberattacks have been recorded. There is a huge challenge nowadays on how to deal with them in the industrial sectors, especially in those with an associated high risk on safety, environment or significant socio-economic impact (i.e. strategic energetic facilities, etc.).