Chemical Engineering
The Protein Shift
Goals to sustainably feed a growing population with limited land resources are driving massive efforts to develop new food sources Today, it is common to see plant-based “meat” products on the shelves of grocery stores. Although soy-based meat products have…
Process Sensors: It’s All About the Data
Today’s process sensors provide a real-time data foundation for asset management and process optimization across the enterprise For many decades, industrial process sensors have been used across the chemical process industries (CPI) to measure common process variables, such as pressure,…
Facts at your Fingertips: Mixing Intensity in Stirred Tanks
The ability to quantify liquid motion in a stirred tank is a basic step toward understanding how mixing influences process results. Quantifying mixing according to a mixing index (MI) can evaluate and predict mixing intensity related to fluid velocities in…
Chem Chronicles: The first patent holder in the U.S. was a ‘Pott Ash Maker’
Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford — these are some of the larger-than-life figures who spring to mind when reflecting on the history of innovation and invention in the U.S. But the first person in American history to…
Kraton announces SBS copolymer capacity expansion in Ohio
Kraton Corp. (Houston) announced a significant expansion of its styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymers (SBS) supply capability at its Belpre, Ohio facility starting in 2024. The production capacity is expected to increase by 24,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) by 2025. "We…
Saint-Gobain to sell its glass-processing business in Switzerland
Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) has signed a binding agreement for the sale of its glass processing business Glassolutions in Switzerland to the privately-owned German group AEQUITA. The business generated sales of around €25 million in 2022 and employs approximately 70 people…
SP Chemicals selects Lummus’ Catofin and Novolen Technologies
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced an integrated technology award from SP Chemicals and its subsidiary SP Olefins. SP Chemicals will license Lummus' CATOFIN® technology for a new 800,000-ton/yr propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit, and SP Olefins will license Lummus' Novolen technology for a new…
Umicore steps up solid-state battery technology development with investment in Blue Current
Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium) and Blue Current, a leading manufacturer of silicon elastic composite solid-state batteries, have agreed to strengthen their collaboration on the development of solid-state battery technology, with Umicore investing a minority stake in the U.S.-based start-up. This…
CE Podcast: Plastics Recycling and PHA
On this episode of the Chemical Engineering podcast, our guests are polymer chemist Scott Trenor, a principal scientist at Milliken Chemical Company, and Anindya Mukherjee, the co-founder of GO!PHA, an organization promoting the development of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) as an alternative…
Axens to supply process technologies for two gas-treatment plants in Kuwait
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) is supplying the process design packages for the gas treatment of two Gas Plants located in North Kuwait, which EPC are managed respectively by SPETCO and Jereh. Axens licenses two HySWEET units for the acid gas removal,…