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Hubei Sanning to use Honeywell hydrogen technology to produce plastics from coal
Honeywell says that Hubei Sanning Chemical Industry Co. will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) Polybed pressure-swing adsorption (PSA) technology to supply high-quality hydrogen at its monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant at Zhijiang in China’s Hubei Province. The Hubei Sanning…
Aveva partners with Virsec to strengthen defence against targeted cyberattacks
Aveva Plc (Cambridge, U.K.; www.aveva.com) has signed a partnership agreement with Virsec (San Jose, Calif.; www.virsec.com), whereby Aveva customers gain access to in-memory cyber protection for Industrial Control (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Virsec’s patented technology…
Pöyry awarded EPCM services assignment for biogas plant expansion in Finland
Gasum Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.gasum.com) has awarded Pöyry Oyj. (www.poyry.com) with the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services assignment for Topinoja biogas plant expansion project in Turku, Finland. The work will be carried out between May 2018 and June…
KBR awarded FEED, EPCM-option contract for Methanex’s potential Geismar 3 Methanol Project
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a reimbursable engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Methanex Corp. for providing front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a 5,000 metric ton per day world-scale methanol plant to be located adjacent…
Jizzakh Petroleum to build new refinery in Uzbekistan
Honeywell announced today that Jizzakh Petroleum JV LLC will use Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) technologies to build a new petroleum refinery capable of processing 5 million ton/yr of crude oil to produce clean-burning gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.…
Impressions of Achema
I first visited Achema some years ago, while I was working in Europe as an R&D project leader for a large, international chemical company. It was my first year living in the Netherlands on an expatriate assignment from the U.S.,…
Selection of Silos for Bulk Storage
To determine what kind of storage silo is best for your site and your materials, begin by answering the following five questions Selecting a silo for your bulk-solids storage needs isn’t like picking out a pair of socks. It’s a…
Get the Most Out of an Owner-Contractor Alliance
This article provides guidance for setting up a robust alliance between plant owners and EPC contractors to minimize risk and maximize synergies during complex, capital-intensive projects The most meaningful collaboration pathway among plant owners and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)…
Technology Profile: Ethylene Dichloride Production
This column is based on “Ethylene Dichloride from Ethylene and Chlorine,” a report published by Intratec. It can be found at: www.intratec.us/analysis/edc-e11a. Ethylene dichloride (also known as 1,2-dichloroethane, as well as EDC and DCE) is by far the most widely…
Maintaining heat-transfer-fluid quality
Effective and efficient process operation requires reliable temperature control. This imposes strict demands on the management of the heat-transfer-fluid (HTF) system. This one-page reference provides suggestions for proper maintenance of heat-transfer fluids. Design features necessary to properly maintain acceptable fluid…