Mobile Navigation

Latest News

BASF and Shenergy Group enter cooperation to accelerate international biomethane projects

BASF SE (Ludiwgshafen, Germany) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Shenergy Group through its subsidiaries Shanghai Gas Co. and Shanghai Shenji Environmental Technology Co.. This strategic partnership aims to foster long-term collaboration among the three parties in the commercialization…

Efficiency Redefined: The Role of Heat Pumps and MVR in Sustainable Distillation Practices

Sulzer’s VoltaSplit™ technology redefines distillation by integrating MVR and heat-pump systems for exceptional energy efficiency and significant direct CO2 savings. What’s inside the whitepaper? Insights into electrified distillation technology, showcasing its performance and sustainability benefits. Practical guidance on integrating VoltaSplit™…

Cost Engineering with Previously Owned Process Equipment

This article made available to you by: Previously used process equipment can offer significant cost advantages in capital construction projects, but there are important questions to consider before pursuing pre-owned equipment Many misconceptions persist in the marketplace about secondhand equipment.…

Member Exclusive

Catalyst developed for conversion of CH4 to methanol

Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL; Upton, N.Y.; www.bnl.gov) and collaborating institutions have engineered a highly selective catalyst that can convert methane into methanol in a one-step reaction. The system could help make better use of “stranded” natural gas…

Member Exclusive

Upgrading organic wastewater into fuel feedstocks

Although wastewater streams with high organic content — such as those from breweries and dairy facilities — can be difficult to treat and expensive to dispose of, there is potential to valorize their carbon content with the right process. Based…

Member Exclusive

Chementator Briefs: December 2024

Sustainable SMR In the pursuit of lowering greenhouse gas emissions, hydrogen has gained much attention as a potentially “clean” energy source. Typically, hydrogen is produced by steam methane reforming (SMR), a process which itself produces greenhouse gases. Efforts to lower…

Member Exclusive

New injector technology fundamentally improves combustion flexibility

Conventional combustors that employ air-blast and pressure-swirl injection technologies are very sensitive to fuel properties, especially viscosity, limiting their ability to utilize certain classes of fuels and blends, including bio-based fuels. The new swirl-burst (SB) fuel-injector technology developed at Baylor…

Member Exclusive

A more mechanical method for methanol manufacture

The demand for “green” methanol as a low-carbon fuel is rising, making it a valuable commodity, as well as a promising avenue for waste-carbon utilization, especially since it can be readily produced from “stranded” carbon sources, such as flare gas.…

Member Exclusive

Successful pilot study of wastewater reuse technology at commercial site

A pilot project evaluating the Electro-Ceramic Desalination (ECD) technology developed by Membrion Inc. (Seattle, Wash.; www.membrion.com) successfully recovered clean water from the reject water of a reverse osmosis (RO) desalination process at a commercial manufacturing site. Membrion’s technology uses ceramic…

Member Exclusive

A more economical process for bio-succinic acid piloted

Bio-based succinic acid has been explored as a renewable building-block for a host of chemicals and polymers, but its production process remains costly due largely to the complicated purification process that generates a large waste stream. Now, researchers at the…