If turbomachinery temperature problems occur or the bearings have to have an increased load carrying capacity, it is common practice to use features like directed lubrication and pad base materials with a high thermal conductivity. But especially pad base materials…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen) and thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, both Germany) achieved measurable improvements in the STAR process, a proprietary dehydrogenation process from thyssenkrupp Uhde that can produce propylene from propane feedstocks, or iso-butylene from iso-butane feedstocks. The technology has been…
Linde plc (Woking, U.K.) announced it has signed a new long-term helium off-take agreement to recover the helium contained in Freeport LNG's production site in Texas. Linde will also construct a new helium processing plant in Freeport to purify and…
Cepsa Quimica (Madrid, Spain) has introduced the first two products in a new line of sustainable chemicals: NextLAB and NextPhenol, now made from renewable and recycled raw materials. The products are used, among other things, for the production of cleaning agents…
Baker Hughes (Houston) has acquired Mosaic Materials Inc. to further develop and scale its next-generation capture technology for carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction from stationary sources and CO2 removal (CDR) from the atmosphere. Mosaic’s metal-organic framework (MOF) technology is a proprietary…
Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) announced that its ISOVER plant in Orange (France), Europe's largest mineral wool manufacturing site, will benefit from a €15 million investment to rebuild its furnace in 2023. Saint Gobain previously announced investment to increase ISOVER’s production capacity.…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced that it is teaming up with World Energy to build a new $2-billion major expansion project at World Energy’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production and distribution hub in Paramount, California. The LA county facility…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) announced the production of its new solvent, Rhodiasolv IRIS, which has beneficial eco-friendly properties. Previously manufactured in China, this solvent will now be produced from 2023 onwards at Solvay's Melle site in France. Rhodiasolv IRIS is efficient, non-flammable, readily…
The same IIoT technologies that can improve plant performance can also help protect it from cyberthreats You don’t typically consider victims of cyberattacks to be lucky, but that’s the case for one petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia. The plant was…
At thyssenkrupp Steel’s recycling location in the Duisburg inland port, on the so-called Schrottinsel (scrap island) in Duisburg, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the construction of a scrap processing plant by TSR Recycling GmbH. The processing plant is part…