Plant Watch Chevron upgrades Pasadena refinery to increase capacity and flexibility December 11, 2024 — Chevron Corp. (Houston; www.chevron.com) has completed a retrofit of its petroleum refinery in Pasadena, Texas, which is expected to increase product flexibility and expand the…
Weeping and flooding phenomena set the vapor velocity in industrial distillation columns. Presented here are procedures for calculating flooding and weeping velocities in a four-pass sieve-tray column In industrial distillation, the term “weeping” is primarily used when the liquid in…
Innovation, intelligence and automation increase precision in weighing equipment for chemical processors Accurate weighing and dosing are critical to the success of any chemical process, because they ensure product quality, safety and resource optimization. Fortunately, innovative technologies, intelligence and automation…
Digitalization can help ethylene producers to flexibly respond to economic uncertainties and assess available options based on their existing infrastructure and priorities Post-pandemic, olefin and polyolefin producers have been faced with regional and global economic headwinds. Inflation, energy security, rising…
Advanced materials are considered to be core enablers for technologies aimed at broad global concerns, such as climate change, sustainable manufacturing, critical-materials supply chains, environmental mitigation and remediation and others [1]. The process by which novel advanced materials are designed…
Mitsubishi Power Americas, through its subsidiary MHI Hydrogen Infrastructure (MHI H2I), announces the recent signing of a subrecipient agreement between the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association (PNWH2) and MHI H2I’s Boardman Hydrogen Hub project. The PNWH2 Hub, one of the country’s…
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany announced that it will invest over €70 million to construct a new Advanced Materials Development Center (AMDC) at its Shizuoka site in Japan. This latest investment brings the company's total investment in the Shizuoka site to…
SWA Lithium, the Joint Venture (JV) between Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway) and Equinor ASA (Stavanger, Norway), which is developing the South West Arkansas Project (SWA), is pleased to announce that, in partnership with Koch Technology Solutions (KTS), it has…
Worley Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia) will provide reimbursable Engineering, Procurement and Construction services (EPC) to ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.) for the Enabling Works, Infrastructure and Interconnects scope of ExxonMobil’s planned low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia facility. The facility is adjacent to…
MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.), the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced that the Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany has signed a definitive agreement with the intention to acquire HUB Organoids Holding B.V.…