Eni and Maire Tecnimont agree to implement a new technology that transforms non-recyclable waste into hydrogen and methanol

Transform waste into new energy, hydrogen and methanol. It is the joint objective of Eni and Maire Tecnimont (through its subsidiary for green chemistry NextChem), who have signed a partnership agreement for the study and implementation of a conversion technology, through high temperature gasification and very low environmental impact, of solid urban waste and non-recyclable plastics for the production of hydrogen and methanol.

Eni and NextChem will evaluate the application of the technology from a technical and economic point of view, which could be implemented in Eni's industrial sites in Italy. In particular, Eni has already expressed its interest in evaluating the "Waste to Hydrogen" project in the Venice biorefinery, in Porto Marghera, and has already carried out the feasibility study in collaboration with NextChem.

The agreement, with which Eni is co-developer of the NextChem technology, will allow the circular economy to be applied in practice, giving a second life to hundreds of thousands of tons of non-recyclable waste through the production of chemical products and fuels, thus contributing to the environmental sustainability of industrial sites as part of an increasingly integrated and efficient system aimed at containing and reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.

"With this partnership Eni acquires a highly innovative technology which, together with the large technological assets accumulated over decades of refining activities, will allow the start of a concrete circular economy that will produce low environmental impact fuels from waste" commented Giuseppe Ricci, Chief Eni's Refining & Marketing Officer.

"This technological partnership with a leader like Eni represents for us a very important result in our green acceleration project" commented Pierroberto Folgiero, CEO of the Maire Tecnimont Group. "The energy transition requires the industrialization of new transformation processes and with NextChem we are positioned to respond to this growing need for change".

Eni and Maire Tecnimont agree to implement a new technology that transforms non-recyclable waste into hydrogen and methanol

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