Moving from engineering student to engineering employee can be a challenge, but there are strategies to help facilitate the transition New college graduates provide a continued source of engineering talent to companies, government agencies and other organizations. However, integrating new…
Chemical recycling refers to a set of technologies that convert plastic waste into raw materials by breaking down long polymer chains into shorter molecules (monomers), enabling the creation new chemicals, fuels or virgin-quality plastics. Key chemical recycling methods for plastics…
Equipment redundancy, supported by impactful corrosion protection, can create a potent combination for avoiding unplanned downtime In the chemical process industries (CPI), production would come to a standstill without process heating and cooling systems. There would be no cracking and…
Since its introduction in 1963, the Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index® (CEPCI) has been tracking changes to construction costs for chemical manufacturing and related process facilities. The data from which the CEPCI is calculated come from a carefully selected and…
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Energy Vault Holdings Inc., a leader in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), today announced the successful completion and commercial operation of the Calistoga Resiliency Center (CRC),…
MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.), the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, announces the opening of a €150 million filtration manufacturing facility in Blarney Business Park, Cork, Ireland. The site is…
Porsche AG and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany), in collaboration with technology partner BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH, have successfully completed a pilot project on recycling mixed waste from end-of-life vehicles. The pilot project demonstrates the recyclability of high-performance…
X-ELIO (Madrid, Spain) launched operations at its Liberty Energy Project in Dayton, Texas. The Liberty project, which combines 72 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity with an additional 60 MW of battery storage capacity, is X-ELIO's first combined solar PV…
Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) and Seri Industrial announce that Eni Storage Systems, a joint venture established by Eni (50% plus one share) and Fib (50% minus one share), a Seri Industrial subsidiary, has begun the operations in the development of…