The Chemicals Business Area of Germany-based Evonik Industries AG, Essen, has expanded the silica capacity of its joint venture Egesil AS in Adapazari, near Izmit, Turkey. With the new capacity of 40,000 ton/year, Evonik Industries is keeping pace with the…
Lukoil Neftochim Burgas AD, a subsidiary of the Russian oil major Lukoil (Moscow; www.lukoil.com), has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to design and license technologies to convert Urals blend vacuum residue and gasoil (VGO) at its 165,000-bbl/d petroleum refinery in…
Larox Corp. (Lappeenranta, Finland; www.larox.com) will deliver two gas-tight Pannevis vacuum belt filters to Chempolis Biorefining Park, CBP, 3rd generation biorefining research and demonstration plant in Oulu, Finland. Chempolis Ltd. (www.chempolis.com) is a leading-edge company in the development and delivery…
Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com) signed with Dutch utility Essent a series of contracts worth up to 1-billion euro for the repowering of Claus B and the construction of Claus C, resulting in a 1,280 MW GT26-based combined-cycle (CC) power plant.…
Aquionics Inc. (Erlanger, Ky.) appoints Kevin Shannon vice-president of sales and marketing. Pierre Patrick Crevier is named senior technologist for the Claus business of Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France). Colibrys (Neuchatel, Switzerland) elects Don Stoops vice-president, global operations. Chris Stevens becomes general…
Plant Watch A new cement plant is planned for Arizona May 19, 2008 — ABB has won an order to provide a complete electrical power and automation system for Drake Cement’s new plant in Yavapai County, Arizona. The 660,000-ton/yr plant…
Engineering an Answer to Poverty Chemical engineers around the world have been challenged to put their design and innovation skills to the test and help some of the planet’s poorest communities. The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE; www.icheme.org; Rugby, U.K.)…
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At 2,064 ft as of this past April, the unfinished Burj Dubai skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates is the tallest man-made structure on earth. "A structure of this kind is only possible if the right [concrete] mixture is guaranteed,"…
Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com), and EuroChem (Moscow), have signed two contracts with a total value of 92.7 million euros for the design and supply of a melamine plant. The melamine unit, which will be the first of its kind…