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Outotec to deliver thickening technology to Peru

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by Minera Chinalco Perú for the supply of a thickening technology for Toromocho’s greenfield copper project in Peru. The contract value is approximately €11 million. Outotec’s scope includes design, fabrication and…

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New contract for a fertilizer complex in Abu Dhabi

Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) has commissioned Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) to provide extensive licensing, engineering and supply services within the scope of a large plant contract, which Ruwais Fertilizer Industries (FERTIL; Abu Dhabi) has awarded…

Solutia’s Therminol heat transfer fluids selected for a new world-scale polysilicon plant in China

Solutia Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.; www.therminol.com) announced today that it has supplied Therminol D12 and Therminol 66 synthetic heat transfer fluids to a new state of the art, 15,000 metric ton per year (m.t./y) solar-grade high-purity polysilicon manufacturing plant in…

Calendar: January to March 2010

21st International Organic Process Research & Development. Scientific Update Conferences (East Sussex, U.K.). Phone: +44 (0) 1435 873062; Web: scientificupdate.co.uk    San Diego, Calif. Jan. 20–22 Stem Cells World Congress. Select Biosciences (Shelton, Conn.). Phone: 203-926-1400; Web: selectbiosciences.com South San…

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Striving to continually advance the chemical engineering profession has been a goal for this magazine since its founding more than 107 years ago. To help cultivate new talent, CE established the annual Chopey Scholarship for Chemical Engineering Excellence in memory…

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BASF to realign its fuel cell business and more

Siemens gasification technology selected for Taylorville Energy Center November 10, 2009 — Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.; www.siemens.com) has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), the 730-MW (gross) advanced clean-coal generating plant…

Herman Purutyan named CEO at Jenike & Johnson…

Bradley Huber Kullman Thibault Purutyan Paul Bradley becomes business manager —specialties peroxygens group for Solvay Chemicals (Houston). W. Troy Roder, president and CEO of Houston-based Foster Wheeler USA becomes chairman and CEO of Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. (Reading, England). ABB…

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Smooth Your Retrieval of Plant-Design Data

Most chemical engineers involved with operating large chemical process facilities have encountered the following challenge: Several large engineering contractors built the facility in multiple phases, using different computer-software models. Retrieving drawings or data in both digital and non-digital form in…

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SABIC & Linde: 1st commercialization of LAO

Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) and The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) announced today the first successful commercialization of Linear Alpha Olefins (LAO), using α-SABLIN technology developed jointly by SABIC and Linde. Discussions began in 1998…

Emissions monitoring study of BP refinery completed by Mustang

Mustang Engineering L.P. (Houston, Tex.; www.mustangeng.com) has completed a front-end engineering study of an emissions monitoring project at a 225,000 bbl/d BP (London, U.K.; www.bp.com) refinery.   In the study, Mustang evaluated the automation of the Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) at…