Chemical Engineering
Plant Watch: March 2024
Plant Watch Petrobras to build ‘green’ hydrogen pilot plant with Senai ISI-ER February 12, 2024 — Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; www.petrobras.com.br) entered into a cooperation agreement with Instituto Senai de Energias Renováveis to build a pilot electrolysis plant to…
Facts At Your Fingertips: NOx Formation in Combustion
Oxides of nitrogen (NOx) are a family of highly reactive gases that can be produced naturally, but largely result from fuel combustion (industrial combustion and automobile engines). In the environment, they are pollutants that react with volatile organic compounds in…
Calibration of Weighing Instruments
A guide to the practical considerations of calibrating weighing instruments is presented here Throughout the chemical process industries (CPI), weighing instruments find a range of important uses and are often a critical piece of equipment for many processes. Monitoring feed…
Metso installs scrubber pilot plant in Frankfurt
Metso Corp. (Espoo, Finland) has installed a fully automated multi-purpose scrubber pilot plant at its R&D center in Frankfurt, Germany. The new plant will be used for developing and optimizing gas cleaning processes. The first focus will be on the…
Stamicarbon awarded for a new urea melt and granulation plant in Egypt
MAIRE (Milan, Italy) announced that NEXTCHEM (Sustainable Technology Solutions), through its nitrogen technology licensor Stamicarbon, has been awarded a licensing and equipment supply contract for a state-of-the-art urea melt and granulation plant in Egypt for El-Nasr Company for Intermediate Chemicals…
Yokogawa to partner with Tsubama BHB on new technologies for ammonia synthesis
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo) announced that it has invested in and signed a memorandum on a business partnership with Tsubame BHB Co., Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan). Tsubame BHB, a university-based startup that was founded by a group headed by Professor Emeritus…
Lummus awarded contract by Hyundai Engineering to supply ethylene-cracking heaters in Saudi Arabia
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced a contract award from Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. to provide eight proprietary Short Residence Time (SRT) ethylene cracking heaters at SATORP's Amiral petrochemical complex in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. "Licensing multiple technologies and…
Thyssenkrupp Uhde to recommission an ammonia plant in Egypt
thyssenkrupp Uhde (Dortmund, Germany) has signed a contract with Egypt-based Delta Company for Fertilizer and Chemical Industries to revamp an existing ammonia plant complex located in Dakahlia, Talkha, Egypt. Delta focuses mainly on sustainable and environmentally friendly fertilizer projects in…
Röhm commissions new Plexiglas plant in Germany
In expanding production capacity for PLEXIGLAS molding compounds at its largest global production site in Worms, Röhm (Darmstadt, Germany) has reached an milestone in the implementation of its growth strategy. At an official ceremony, the plant was officially commissioned by…
Maire announces Nextchem’s acquisition of two electrochemistry firms
MAIRE (Milan, Italy) has announced that NEXTCHEM (Sustainable Technology Solutions), through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has signed a binding agreement to acquire 80% of HyDEP S.r.l. and 100% of Dragoni Group S.r.l. Both Italian based, HyDEP and Dragoni Group are…