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Keeping Valves Corrosion-Free
In all phases of a valve’s lifecycle — from fabrication to decommissioning and storage — corrosion protection is essential Corrosion can be a serious source of valve damage, and it can often result in costly leakage, failures and repairs or…
Enhancing Plant Safety Via Virtual ‘On-Site’ Visits
New developments in augmented reality can help plant operators fix critical issues while limiting the number of outside visitors entering the facility Reducing risk is an important goal for any plant or petroleum refinery to maintain the health and safety…
Facts At Your Fingertips: Evaporator Equipment Types
Industrial evaporator heat-transfer surfaces are either tubular or flat plates, packaged into a variety of evaporator types, as outlined here. Batch evaporators Batch evaporators are vessels with a heating jacket or internal coil, an overhead condenser, a condensate receiver, and…
Improve dosing accuracy and safety for powder weighing
The XPR automatic balance (photo) applies active machine learning to powder weighing, delivering accuracy, speed and safety for weighing potentially toxic or active substances. The XPR significantly reduces exposure risk while ensuring precision and safety by dosing from an enclosed…
Use these lined static mixers with aggressive chemicals
This company has launched a Kynar-lined static mixer (photo) to enable homogenization and dispersion of liquids and gases without using any moving parts. Due to its enhanced chemical resistance and high-temperature capacity, this mixer is appropriate for challenging chemical applications,…
A mobile conveying system for explosive environments
The ATEX-certified Inert Explosion-proof (INEX) pneumatic vacuum-conveying system (photo) features an optional mobility package. Setting the entire conveying system on a self-contained, rolling platform, the mobile INEX system enables processors to safely convey dry and wet powders in hazardous environments…
Nigeria’s BUA Refinery awards polypropylene contract to Lummus
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that its Novolen business has been awarded a polypropylene (PP) contract by BUA Refinery, a subsidiary of Nigeria's BUA Group, at their grassroots refinery in Nigeria. Lummus' scope includes the technology license for a polypropylene unit…
Eastman acquires nutrition-additives manufacturer in Spain
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) announced that it has acquired 3F Feed & Food, a European leader specializing in the technical and commercial development of additives for animal feed and human food. Located in Spain, 3F's business and assets are…
SK Innovation and Kia Motors to establish recycling ecosystem for EV batteries
Kia Motors and SK Innovation (both Seoul, South Korea) announced that they had secured the possibility of building an industrial ecosystem that enables eco-friendly handling of EV batteries and technological basis thereof by re-collecting metals such as lithium from used…
Aker Solutions wins FEED contract for carbon-neutral fuels plant in Norway
Aker Solutions ASA (Lysaker, Norway) has signed a contract with Nordic Blue Crude (NBC) for front-end engineering and design (FEED) of a new e-Fuel facility at Herøya in Porsgrunn, Norway. The e-Fuel plant is planned to produce CO2-neutral fuel by…