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Indorama Ventures joins the T-REX Project to accelerate textile recycling

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited has announced its participation in the groundbreaking T-REX (Textile Recycling Excellence) Project. This initiative aims to establish a harmonized European blueprint for the closed-loop sorting and recycling of household textile waste to help the fashion…

Parker Hannifin divests composites manufacturing business in North America

Parker Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) announced it has signed an agreement to divest its North America Composites and Fuel Containment (CFC) Division to private investment firm SK Capital Partners. With the completion of this transaction the company will have successfully…

Verbio starts up ethanol production at biorefinery in Iowa

Verbio has commenced the commercial production of corn-based ethanol at its biorefinery facility in Nevada, Iowa. The plant, a subsidiary of Europe's leading biofuels and bioenergy producer Verbio SE, underwent a thorough commissioning process over the past six months resulting…

OCI Global to sell Texas clean-ammonia project to Woodside for $2.35 billion

OCI Global N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) announced that it has reached an agreement for the sale of 100% of its equity interests in its Clean Ammonia project under construction in Beaumont, Texas (OCI Clean Ammonia), to Woodside Energy Group Ltd.…

Case Study: HRSG LP Evaporator Failure and Risk Assessment – Oklahoma USA

      Overview: Tube leak was found in Low Pressure (LP) Steam Evaporator at a combined cycle power plant in Oklahoma. This leak was suspected and proved to be Flow Accelerated Corrosion (FAC) damage. This raised concerns about the…

Lubrizol to invest $200 million to construct its largest manufacturing plant in India

The Lubrizol Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio) announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding to purchase a 120-acre plot in Aurangabad, India, where it plans to construct a new manufacturing facility to initially support the region’s growing transportation and industrial fluid…

Veolia North America sells its acid-regeneration business for $620 million

Veolia (Paris) announced that its subsidiary Veolia North America has signed an agreement for the divestment of Veolia North America Regeneration Services, which includes its sulfuric acid and hydrofluoric acid regeneration activities for refineries, to private equity firm American Industrial…

Rising heat concerns

This summer is proving to be a hot one across much of the U.S. as heat waves grip many regions with little relief from nighttime cooling. If it seems like it has been getting hotter, there are data to support…

Solids’ Characteristics and the Drying Process

Understanding material characteristics is important in designing and defining process criteria for optimal performance of rotary and fluidized-bed dryers The ability to efficiently, reliably and consistently dry bulk solids in an industrial setting relies largely on tailoring the dryer’s design…

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Chemical Recycling: A Deep Dive on Depolymerization

Looking at the challenges and benefits of various recycling technologies, this article uses polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) as an example to analyze the economics and design considerations for depolymerization processes Plastics are a valuable commodity in society and provide versatile materials…