Chementator: Propylene or diesel fuel? Just change the controls
Petroleum refiners can have the option to produce more diesel fuel or propylene from their…
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Chementator
Chementator: Controling corrosion and odor from sewers
At last month’s IFAT Trade Exhibition (May 5 – 9; Munich, Germany), Kemira Water (Helsingborg,…
Chementator: Smart pump control
Kadant AES (Queensbury, N.Y.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-543) has introduced a patented control technology for high-pressure positive-displacement (HPPD)…
Chementator: Plastics from CO2?
Researchers from the Organic Chemistry Dept. at Newcastle University (U.K.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-544) have developed aluminium (salen)…
Chementator: Improved transistor
Researchers at the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University (Sweden; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-545) have used nanotechnology to develop…
Chementator: A barrier for PVs
Honeywell Specialty Materials (Morristown, N.J.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-546) has launched PowerShield PV325, a material that protects photovoltaic…
Chementator: Catalyst loading
TubeMaster, Inc. (Louisville, Ky.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-547) has filed U.S. and foreign patents for Dog-leg — claimed…
Chementator: A dynamic way to reduce NOx emissions from FCCs
A system for controlling oxides-of-nitrogen (NOx) emissions from catalyst regenerators in fluid catalytic crackers (FCCs)…
Chementator: A propane-based AN process makes its commercial debut
This summer, Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp. (AKCC; Tokyo, Japan; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-532) plans to begin construction on…
Chementator: Cellulosic ethanol
Dupont (Wilmington, Del.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-533) and its partner Genencor (Palo Alto, Calif.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-534), a div. of…
Chementator: Drying at the speed of light
After several years of proven operation in the food- and nutritional-products industry, a patented drying…
Chementator: Scaleup is set for a natural-gas-treating process that freezes out CO2
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-537) plans to spend more than $100 million on a commercial…
Chementator: A commercial breakthrough in alcohol oxidation
Nissan Chemical Industries Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-538) is commercializing "ultrahighly active" catalysts, based on the…
Chementator: Soy polymers may have a future in drug delivery
Soy-oil-based hydrogels developed by the U.S. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) show promise as biodegradable encapsulants…
Chementator: MIR spectrometer on a chip
Infrared (IR) analyzers are widely used for gas, liquid and surface analysis. Up to now,…
Business News
Air Liquide invests in H2 unit to serve Rotterdam/Antwerp
In Rotterdam, Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has just won a long-term contract to supply…
Biazzi wins hydrogenation order in Belgium
Biazzi SA (Montreaux, Switzerland; www.biazzi.com) has just received an order for a large hydrogenation unit…
Siltronic and Samsung start production of 300-mm wafers in Singapore
Siltronic Samsung Wafer Pte. Ltd. (www.siltronic-samsung-wafer.com), a joint venture (JV) of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.…
Bulgarian refinery to upgrade with Axens’ technology
Lukoil Neftochim Burgas AD, a subsidiary of the Russian oil major Lukoil (Moscow; www.lukoil.com), has…
Larox to supply filters to Chempolis demo plant
Larox Corp. (Lappeenranta, Finland; www.larox.com) will deliver two gas-tight Pannevis vacuum belt filters to Chempolis…
Alstom to build a 1,280 MW CC power plant in Holland
Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com) signed with Dutch utility Essent a series of contracts worth up…
Economic Indicators: Business News
Plant Watch A new cement plant is planned for Arizona May 19, 2008 — ABB…
Lurgi signs contract for melamine plant in Russia
Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com), and EuroChem (Moscow), have signed two contracts with a total…
PSE launches gPROMS v3.1 modeling technology
Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com) has completed its roll-out of the 2nd generation…
DuPont expands production of Solamet paste
To meet the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, DuPont (Wilmington, Del.;…
Alfa Laval wins large order in China
Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has received an order for the Packinox plate heat exchanger…
S-Oil selects ParamaX technologies
S-Oil Corp. (Seoul, Korea; www.s-oil.com/eng) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) ParamaX Technology Suite for…
Saudi Aramco and Total select Axens Technologies
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France www.axens.net) has been awarded a design package for the new, 400,000 bbl/d,…
Lurgi Zimmer wins PA6 contract in China
Lurgi Zimmer GmbH, a company of Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.de), has been awarded a…
Ekato Fluid receives its largest order
Ekato Fluid Misch- ind Dispergiertechnik GmbH (Lörrach, Germany; www.fluidmix.de), a company of the Ekato Group…
Technical & Practical
Cover Story Part 1: Compressed Air: Exploring the Need For Temporary Systems
Compressed air is often referred to as the fourth utility, and yet for an upstart…
Cover Story Part 2: Compressed Air: Your Most Expensive Utility
Compressed air is your most expensive utility. This is a fact that has been documented…
Piping for Process Plants Part 6: Testing and Verification
This sixth and final part of a series of articles [ 1 – 5] on…
Facts at Your Fingertips: Humidity Control
Applications Dehumidification by cooling or dessication has a variety of applications, including: Preventing moisture regain.…
Solids Processing: Automating Your Weigh Batching System
In many plants that batch-blend bulk products, weigh batching is a manual, time-consuming operation in…
Engineering Practice: Hydrogen-Pinch Analysis Made Easy
An automated spreadsheet method can quickly help minimize fresh hydrogen consumption while maximizing hydrogen recovery…
Zirconium and its Alloys: For Extreme Sulfuric Acid Applications
One of the earliest applications for zirconium in the chemical process industries (CPI) is for…