The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) shows that growth in the industry has been nearly flat most of the year thus far. The headline index for July rose just 0.1 percent…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) says that HollyFrontier Corp. (HFC) has successfully started up two dividing-wall columns (DWC) at their El Dorado Refinery, Kansas. These grassroots and revamp column startups for HFC apply KBR's Distill-Max technology and add to KBR's portfolio…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with BTG BioLiquids B.V. (BTL; Enschede, the Netherlands; www.btg-btl.com) to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for its modular pyrolysis plants. The plants will be based on BTL’s Fast…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a construction services contract for the Balama Graphite Project in Cabo Delgado, Northern Mozambique. The contract is valued at C$21.7 million and SNC-Lavalin’s Kentz Field Operations team will provide structural mechanical and piping…
FLASH AND FIRE POINTS IN HEAT TRANSFER FLUIDS Download as a PDF file FLASH POINT DEFINED A “flashpoint” is the temperature at which a fluid generates enough vapor to be ignited (“flash”). There are two common test methods: Open Cup (ASTM D92) and Closed…
Meridian Energy Group (Belfield, N.D.; www.meridianenergygroupinc.com) announced that the company has finalized a license agreement with Axens North America, Inc., a subsidiary of Axens (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net), to define the underlying proprietary process technology for several of the refinery process…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has inaugurated a new carbon-fiber production line at its Piedmont Facility in South Carolina, doubling production capacity of a key raw material to make carbon-fiber-reinforced composite materials and meeting increasing demand for lightweighting composite materials…
Technip (Paris; www.technip.com) and METabolic EXplorer (Saint-Beauzire, both France; www.metabolic-explorer.com) have signed an agreement to assess the feasibility of offering a combined technology package consisting of the companies’ respective 1,3-propanediol (PDO) and polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) technologies. The evaluation will include…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract to lead design and provide engineering services, procurement and construction support for Pfizer, Inc.’s new $350 million Global Biotechnology Center investment in the Hangzhou Economic Development Area in China.…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) and specialty chemicals producer Zhejiang NHU Special Materials Co. (NHU) have officially inaugurated their joint venture (JV) company for polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) compounds, DSM NHU Engineering Plastics (Zhejiang) Co Ltd. The JV, which was…