A “clean†combustion process that includes carbon dioxide sequestration may get its first commercial-scale tryout in Jamestown, N.Y., where the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities (BPU) is planning to replace two old, coal-fired boilers by a 43-MW circulating fluidized bed…
BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-536) and CogniTek Management Systems, Inc. (Northfield, Ill.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-537) have signed a cooperative agreement to study the combined use of supercritical (SC) CO2 and ionic liquids (Ils) as a potentially efficient way to utilize low-temperature…
Researchers from the fluid-dynamics laboratories at CSIRO Manufacturing and Materials Technology (Melbourne, Australia; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6898-534) have developed a new heat-exchange technology, called RAMeX, which performs heat exchange and mixing of highly viscous fluids without stirrers, impellers, baffles and plates. Like the…
This system, which has multiple reactors and uses microwaves for heating, has been developed by professor Yuji Wada at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (edlinks.chemengonline.com/6898-543), in cooperation with Shikoku Instrument Co. (Takamatsu; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6898-544) and…
Vessels for handling bulk solids, such as silos and bins, are frequently used to heat or cool bulk materials in cases where a slow rate of change or long residence time is required. Often, the temperature of a…
Although brown coal accounts for about 25% of Australia’s energy supply, it has a high moisture content and, when burned, is a high emitter of carbon dioxide (above 1,200kg/MWh). To address this challenge HRL Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6897-531) has developed…
A dehydration process — which uses about half the energy required by thermal methods for drying brown coal or sludge — is being developed by the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (Tokyo, Japan; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6897-532). The process uses liquefied…
Techno Bank Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6897-537) has developed a new supply, storage, and transport system for safely handling a high capacity of hydrogen in fuel-cell applications. The system — a cassette containing nano-sized powder of magnesium hydride (MgHâ‚‚) —…
A high-shear reactor that is said to accelerate chemical reaction rates by up to three orders of magnitude will get its first commercial tryout in the production of biodiesel fuel. Kreido Biofuels, Inc. (Camarillo, Calif.; kreido.com), the reactor's developer,…
Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobelco; Tokyo; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6896-532) has developed a process to recover hydrogen from methane steam reformers with purity that is sufficiently high for use in fuel cells. The key to the process is a proprietary carbon-monoxide adsorbent for Hâ‚‚…