UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) and Ensyn Corp. (Wilmington, Del.; www.ensys.com) have launched Envergent Technologies, LLC, a joint venture (JV) to offer technology and equipment to convert second-generation biomass into pyrolysis oil for power generation, heating fuel and for…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) will invest around €10 million in Australia in a carbon dioxide recovery unit. The Air Liquide unit will re-use up to 69,000 metric ton (m.t.) of C02 from the BassGas natural gas plant and be…
Malvern Instruments (Malvern, U.K.; www.malvernpanalytical.com/en) has entered into a collaborative agreement with industrial process optimization specialist SDTech (Ales, France; www.sd-tech.com/homepage.php). SDTech works primarily in custom micronization and the analysis of fine and ultra-fine powders, delivering Process Expert services to a…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) will adapt its proprietary process for carbon dioxide capture to the special conditions prevalent in and mode of operation of combined-cycle power plants for the Norwegian utility Statkraft. The project kicked off in January 2009…
Bookings by members of the German Large Industrial Plant Manufacturer´s Group (AGAB; Frankfurt; www.vdma.org) rose to a record 32.8 billion euros in 2008 compared to 32.4 billion euros in 2007. “Since the beginning of the upturn in 2003, bookings have…
Alstom (Paris, France; www.alstom.com) has been awarded a contract worth around 500 million euros by RWE Power AG to supply two cutting-edge boilers for its Eemshaven power plant in the Netherlands. The new hard coal-fired units will provide clean, reliable…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) is to acquire a 28% stake in the Italian solar company Archimede Solar Energy S.p.A. (ASE; Massa Martana) and thus expand its competencies for solar thermal power plants. ASE is the sole producer of solar…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) expects to nearly triple its annual photovoltaic sales to more than $1 billion in 2012 based on strong fundamentals for long-term revenue growth in the photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, combined with the company’s ability to…
GE Water, a business unit of GE Energy (Atlanta, Georgia; www.ge.com/energy), and the National University of Singapore (NUS; www.nus.edu.sg) announced that they have signed an agreement to establish the NUS-GE Singapore Water Technology Center on the campus of NUS. Together,…
In order to secure supply and meet the growing demand for phosphorus pentoxide, Clariant International Ltd. (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) is establishing a joint venture with two Chinese partners in Kunming in the Chinese province of Yunnan. A state-of-the-art phosphorus pentoxide…