In late December, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) announced $179 million in funding for three Microelectronics Science Research Centers (MSRCs). These three MSRCs will perform basic research in microelectronics materials, device and system design, and manufacturing…
Heracles, a member of Holcim Group, signed a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract with Air Liquide Engineering and Construction (E&C) for the CO2 capture, liquefaction, storage and dispatch facilities as part of HERACLES’ large-scale Olympus Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS)…
John Wood Group PLC (Wood; Aberdeen, U.K.) announced that it has completed the sale of its stake in Ethos Energy Group Ltd., a joint venture focused on rotating equipment. Wood has completed the sale to One Equity Partners for a final…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has signed a binding agreement to sell its Food and Health Performance Ingredients business, including the production site in Illertissen, Germany, to Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), a leading global merchant and processor of agricultural goods including…
The Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG; Tokyo) has announced two capacity expansions at its production sites in Japan in response to growing demand for semiconductor materials and lithium-ion batteries. In the first project, MCG will increase its production capacity of a…
Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany) has begun operations at a new plant producing green CO2 at its Vrdy site in the Czech Republic. This enables Messer to increase the supply reliability of its customers, for example in the local…
Dry reforming of methane (DRM), in which carbon dioxide and methane are combined to form synthesis gas (H2 and CO), is an attractive route to making syngas because it does not require consumption of water and does not produce CO2…
Meeting climate-change goals requires steep reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions from existing power plants and hard-to-abate industry operations. However, the energy required to release captured CO2 from sorbent material is a challenge for the economic viability of these efforts. Also, retrofitting…
One of the main limiting factors in the production of “green” hydrogen via electrochemical water splitting is the relatively slow rate of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and the use of very expensive noble metals like iridium to catalyze the…
Presented here is the progress and resolution of a troubleshooting case involving a distillation column with a capacity reduction problem Troubleshooting distillation columns during operation is often the key to stable production at industrial facilities. The collection of troubleshooting references…