GTL/CTL cooperation
Last month, China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec; Beijing; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-549) and Syntroleum Corp. (Tulsa,…
In The News
Business News
Reducing PFOA
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-553) has commercialized a patented process that removes more than 97% of…
Shaw-Saudi JV
Stone & Webster International, a business unit of the Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.;…
Scaleup for a process to make a cobalt-free alternative for Li-ion batteries
Phostech Lithium Inc. (St. Bruno, Canada; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-533), an affiliate of Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany), has…
Organic semiconductors
BASF Future Business GmbH (Ludwigshafen, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-536) has entered a licensing and joint-development agreement with…
Make more olefins economically with this new catalytic-cracking process
SK Corp. (Seoul, South Korea; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-542) has developed a new process to increase the yield…
Cellulosic ethanol
Last month, Diversa Corp. (San Diego, Calif.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-546) and Celunol Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6893-547)…
Technical & Practical
Hearing Protection For CPI Workers
Occupational dangers in the chemical process industries (CPI) are many, with falls, respiratory…
Piping Design, Part 2 - Flanges
Pipe flanges are used to mechanically connect pipe sections to other pipe sections, inline…
Unit Restarts: Where to Begin?
Spend the necessary time on unit status evaluation and onsite work preparation for optimum return…
Heat Exchangers: Tube-to-Tubesheet Joint Tightness
The use of shell-and-tube heat exchangers is widespread in the chemical process industries…
Operational Excellence Begins Here
The pressures and challenges placed on the chemical process industries (CPI) have been…
Increasing Particle Sizing Efficiency
With energy costs rising, the value of most powders and bulk solids has…