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Amogy and Yara Clean Ammonia sign collaboration agreement

Amogy Inc. and Yara Clean Ammonia (YCA), a decarbonization-focused subsidiary of leading global ammonia producer, Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway)have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), under which Yara will consider Amogy’s ammonia-to-power system as a zero-emissions solution for use…

CNOOC-Shell JV chooses LyondellBasell technology for new PP plant

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Limited (CSPC), a 50:50 joint venture incorporated by CNOOC Petrochemicals Investment Co., Ltd. and Shell Nanhai B.V., has selected LyondellBasell’s Spherizone process technology. The Spherizone process technology will be…

Albemarle investing up to $540 million to expand bromine facilities in Arkansas

Albemarle Corporation (Charlotte, N.C.) announced planned investments of up to $540 million to expand and modernize two bromine facilities in Magnolia, Arkansas, designed to meet growing demand for fire safety and specialty products in several industries, including technology, safety, transportation,…

BASF and G-Philos enter agreement to develop and market sodium-sulfur stationary batteries

BASF Stationary Energy Storage GmbH (BSES), a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), and G-Philos, Korea’s leader in power-to-gas (P2G) technology, signed a sales and marketing agreement for NAS batteries (sodium-sulfur stationary batteries) for P2G projects, power grid…

Toyo Engineering awarded contracts from BASF and Tosoh

Tech Project Service Co., Ltd. (TPS, President Takashi Kohara), a domestic subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp., has received an order for a construction project for separation and purification agent manufacturing facilities planned by Tosoh Corp. (Tokyo). Separation and purification agents…

BASF and Molear partner to enhance copper mining technologies

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Moleaer Inc., a global leader in nanobubble technology, have announced an exclusive partnership. This partnership will combine expertise in mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, gas transfer, and nanobubble technology to develop innovative processes for mining. The initial…

CCFs for Specific valve-disc combinations

Note: This table is supplementary information to accompany the article Combining the use of Rupture Discs with Relief Valves Table 3         Rupture-disc model Valve model Min. Size (IN) Min. Burst Pressure in Min. Size (PSIG) Certified…

OT/ICS Cybersecurity Risk: You can’t protect what you can’t see

Operational Technology/Industrial Control System (OT/ICS) Inventory encompasses endpoints, or components of an endpoint, that have a model number, serial number, or version number. This includes hardware, firmware and software running in the OT/ICS environment. The systems to be included in…

Vynova launches energy-efficiency projects at French manufacturing site

Vynova PPC (Tessenderlo, Belgium), a European producer of potassium and bromine derivatives, has launched an energy efficiency project at its site in Thann, France. Thanks to the investment, the company will be able to reduce its annual primary energy consumption…

Sulzer providing technology and equipment for naphthalene expansion in Indonesia

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland)  is providing process engineering and key equipment for the expansion of PT. Dongsuh Indonesia (DSI) naphthalene downstream sector. The delivery of an advanced separation unit to DSI’s plant in Serang, Indonesia, will enable the production…