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From Lab to Digital Twin: Estimating Simulation Parameters for Batch Columns from Experimental Data

The Batch Column in CHEMCAD is a powerful unit operation that allows the fast, simple, and reliable estimation of the feasibility of a batch distillation process. Whether you're designing a new column, developing new separation processes in existing columns, optimizing…

ABB signs agreement with Dow as the automation partner to support Path2Zero ethylene complex in Canada

ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) has signed a Leveraged Procurement Agreement (LPA) to support as the automation partner for Dow’s Path2Zero project at Fort Saskatchewan in Alberta, Canada. According to Dow, the project, which is currently under construction, will create the…

Laying the Foundation for Industrial Project Success

Accurate baseline data is the foundation for every successful industrial project, whether you’re modernizing aging equipment or expanding operations. Traditional measurement methods often leave you working with incomplete or outdated facility documentation, introducing costly uncertainty into planning, design, and execution.…

Saint-Gobain Ceramics to construct catalyst carriers manufacturing plant in New York

Saint-Gobain Ceramics, through its subsidiary Saint-Gobain NorPro, announced its intent to build a new manufacturing facility in Wheatfield, New York. The facility will revitalize an historic industrial property as the company expands its production of catalyst carriers to serve a…

Momentive Performance Materials links with Chinese silicon firm for new silanes JV

Momentive Performance Materials Group (Momentive; Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Jiangxi Hungpai Material Co., Ltd. (Hungpai), a silicon-based research and manufacturing leader in China, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to establish a joint venture (JV) focused on the manufacturing, promotion,…

Huntsman and Advanced Material Development announce strategic collaboration for carbon-nanotube composites

Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.) has announced it will collaborate with Advanced Material Development Ltd. (AMD), a leading nanomaterials business, through a strategic relationship to develop carbon nanotube-integrated functional composite materials in the United States. The collaboration will allow for…

Toyo Engineering awarded EPC contract for Nippon Shokubai’s new electrolyte plant

 Toyo Engineering Corp. (Tokyo) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract by Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) for a new lithium-ion battery electrolyte production plant in Fukuoka, Japan. The project is scheduled for completion in 2027and will…

Blue Spruce expanding helium production capacity in Wyoming and incorporating Honeywell CCS technologies

Honeywell International, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Blue Spruce Operating, LLC will use Honeywell’s carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies to increase the domestic production of helium at its Dry Piney Helium & Carbon Sequestration Project in Sublette County, Wyoming.…

Técnicas Reunidas and Siemens Energy consortium awarded FEED contract for one of Europe’s largest renewable methanol plants

REOLUM, a Spanish company specialized in innovative solutions for decarbonization and energy transition, has awarded a consortium formed by Técnicas Reunidas S.A. (TR; Madrid, Spain) and Siemens Energy AG (Munich, Germany) the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the La Robla…

Solvay to nearly halve CO2 emissions at Torrelavega plant with biomass project

Solvay (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is taking another decisive step to phase out coal at its soda ash and bicarbonate plants with a new energy transition project in Torrelavega, Spain, aiming to nearly halve CO2 emissions by 2027 1 and ensure…