By exploring strategies for process integration, such as waste-heat recovery and combined heat and power generation, plants can significantly improve their energy efficiency and reduce utility costs In a chemical processing plant, utility costs typically account for about 10 to…
This column is based on “Butyl Acrylate Production from Acrylic Acid and Butanol – Cost Analysis,” a report published by Intratec. It can be found at: www.intratec.us/analysis/butyl-acrylate-production-cost. Butyl acrylate, the butyl ester of acrylic acid, is among the most industrially…
This company is expanding its range of fluid sensors with IO-Link-capable sensors for flexible and reliable process temperature measurement. Both compact devices are equipped with an integrated temperature probe (TS700), as well as processing and display units (TS720) for connecting…
The System One Series of high-temperature centrifugal pumps (photo) utilizes flanges, elastomers and a unique centerline mount to support high operating temperatures. These design features allow System One high-temperature pumps to safely and reliably transfer critical and valuable fluids in…
This company’s Shiftconnector digital manufacturing software (photo) for the processing industries can now be integrated with the Cleared4 employee-health monitoring platform. This partnership aims to promote healthy, safe and reliable production at manufacturing plants. This combined software platform is said…
Steam and condensate-return systems can be susceptible to unique forms of corrosion. This overview explains how to prevent or minimize such issues Steam is utilized for process heating and other applications at thousands of industrial plants in the chemical process…
Area electrical classification is a powerful tool for process safety. It is not, however, the only viable approach to a safe process Electrically classifying an area is a long-standing safety measure in the petrochemical and related industries. It is also…
The company is augmenting its Livmoa range of single-use protective clothing to include to new Livmoa 4000 products (photo) for high-pressure water applications, such as those in waste-disposal sites or any type of heavy-duty cleaning task. Furthermore, in subsequent months,…
UPM Group (Helsinki Finland) is moving forward with its biofuels growth plans and starting the basic engineering phase of a next-generation biorefinery. The potential biorefinery would have an annual capacity of 500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of high-quality renewable…
Renewcell and Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland) have signed a contract for Valmet to deliver the main equipment for Renewcell’s planned 60,000 metric-ton capacity textile recycling plant at Ortviken industrial site in Sundsvall, Sweden. This is a major milestone in the…