Processing & Handling
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Closing the Safety Gap
The chemical process industry plays a crucial role in our modern society, producing a wide range of products ranging from ammonia to sodium hydroxide that are essential elements of day-to-day commodities. However, the production and handling of chemicals come with…
Linde Engineering to Build 24-MW PEM Electrolyzer Plant for Yara
Linde Engineering (Pullach, Germany) has signed an agreement with Yara ASA (Oslo, Norway) for the construction and delivery of a 24-MW green hydrogen plant. In December 2021, Yara was granted funding for the development of the initial plant by Enova.…
Stamicarbon awarded licensing and equipment-supply contract for two urea plants in China
Stamicarbon BV (Sittard, the Netherlands), the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com), has been awarded a licensing and equipment supply contract for two Ultra-Low Energy grassroots urea plants in the People’s Republic of China. The…
thyssenkrupp to install 200-MW ‘green’ hydrogen facility for Shell in port of Rotterdam
Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers GmbH, Dortmund, Germany has signed a supply contract with Shell for the large-scale project ‘Hydrogen Holland I’ in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Under the contract, thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers will engineer, procure and fabricate…
Technology Profile: Production of Ethylene from Ethane
Ethylene is used almost exclusively as a building block — it is the largest-volume petrochemical produced worldwide (Figure 1). Production of ethylene grew rapidly in the middle of the 20th century, when oil and chemical companies began separating it from…
Process Commercialization: The 2021 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award
To honor the efforts of those chemical engineers and their companies that have successfully commercialized a new process for the first time, Chemical Engineering magazine has been be-stowing its Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award since 1933. The aim of the…
The Importance of Steam Quality for Steam-System Process Operation
Often, operational problems in steam systems are misattributed because the system’s steam quality is not closely monitored. A clear understanding of steam quality can help to better address these issues Steam quality describes the proportion of saturated steam (vapor) in…
Layered catalyst selectively generates two-carbon compounds from CO2
Copper-catalyzed electrochemical reduction offers a path for making valuable chemicals, such as ethanol or ethylene, from CO2. However, selectively generating sufficient yields of two-carbon products requires precise manipulation of the microenvironment near the surface to control reaction activity and product…
Bifunctional catalyst enables economically viable production of bio-based acrylates
The prospects for a bio-based route to acrylates (diagram) received a significant boost recently, when startup company Låkril Technologies Corp. (Chicago, Ill.; www.lakril.com) licensed technology from the laboratory of Paul Dauenhauer at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.; twin-cities.umn.edu). Dauenhauer…