Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW; Karlsruhe) and Siemens Power Generation (Erlangen, both Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6517-550) are joining forces to build a fuel-cell hybrid power plant with 70% efficiency (fuel to electricity) and a megawatt-scale power output. The 70% efficiency of this hybrid…
This month, JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6517-532) started up a new production plant that produces 100 m.t./yr of solar-grade (SOG) silicon (Si) from crude Si metal. The company also started to design a 500-1,000-m.t./yr plant for making SOG Si,…
Messer Group GmbH (Krefeld, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6516-531) has commercialized a liquid-nitrogen- (LNâ‚‚) based process for purifying exhaust air that contains high (100–1,000 g/m3) loads of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or solvents. Unlike incineration (which can have problems, such as dioxin formation, with chlorinated…
Solid-liquid separation is a key unit operation that processors look to for a wide-range of applications ranging from: the lowly removal of debris from cooling-fluid lines and products; through the recovery of product from solvents; to massive-scale dewatering…
This fall, Asahi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Tokyo; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6516-541), plans to start up a 70,000-m.t./yr plant for producing acrylonitrile (AN) at its 100% subsidiary Tongsuh Petrochemical Corporation Ltd., (Ulsan, South Korea). The plant will be a renovation of an existing…
Universal Display Corp. (Ewing, N.J.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6516-547) has been awarded two new Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grants from the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.) to enhance white OLED lighting technology. In the first grant, the company will…
Researchers from the Physics of Fluids and Biocolloids group at the University of Granada (Spain; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6516-549) are developing a system in which bitumen emulsifies at room temperature, which facilitates transport and allows cold application. Because the bitumen does not need…
ADA-ES, Inc. (Littleton, Colo.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6516-550) has been awarded a contract from the U.S. DOE to develop an improved process for manufacturing activated carbon (AC). AC is the key chemical used in ADA-ES’s mercury-control technology (CE, December 2004, p. 18) —…
A chemical-treatment process, called Kemicond, that reduces the volume and odor of sludge has been commercialized by its developer Kemitra Kemi AB Kemwater (Helsingborg, Sweden; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6515-532). The first commercial application - a system for Käppala Association (Stockholm, Sweden) that treats…
Among this year's award winners of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA; Washington, D.C.) Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge are Codexis, Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6515-538), Merck & Co. (Whitehouse, N.J.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6515-539) and Galen Suppes, professor of chemical engineering at the…