A step forward for a new titanium leaching process
Reed Resources Ltd. (Perth, Western Australia; www.reedresources.com) has advanced its Barrambie Titanium Project — about…
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Learning about spray technologies
Spray nozzles are very useful tools with a simple concept and sometimes complex design. Earlier…
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Chementator
Using algae to produce medium-chain-length fatty acids
Scientists at Kao Corp. (KAO; Tokyo, Japan; chemical.kao.com) have discovered an enzyme that has the…
The commercial debut for a gas-to-gasoline process
Last month in Ovadan-Depe, Turkmenistan, construction began on a plant that will produce gasoline from…
A direct route to organosilicon compounds
Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST; Tsukuba City, Japan;…
Combine wastewater treatment with biofuel production
Algae Systems LLC (Daphne, Ala.; www.algaesystems.com) has inaugurated a demonstration plant that integrates municipal wastewater…
October Chementator Briefs
A step closer to bio-based acrylic acid Last month, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com),…
An energy-saving bioreactor for wastewater treatment
A bioreactor technology for removing organic and inorganic contaminants from industrial wastewater has been commercially…
This solar cell promises to be less expensive
A commercial prototype perovskite solar cell that is less expensive than current thin-film solar cells…
Business News
Corbion Purac plans to construct a large PLA production plant in Thailand
Corbion Purac (Amsterdam, the Netherlands www.corbion.com) will accelerate its thrust into the biotechnology arena, making…
Messer to build third ASU in Vietnam
Messer Group (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) is building its third gasses production plant in Vietnam.…
BASF and Toda Kogyo form JV for cathode-active materials
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Toda Kogyo Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.todakogyo.co.jp), an industry leader…
Clariant divests its Energy Storage Business to Johnson Matthey
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has agreed to divest its Business Line Energy Storage to Johnson…
Cristal to acquire TiO2 assets of Jiangxi Tikon
The National Titanium Dioxide Co. (Cristal; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; www.cristal.com) has entered into an agreement…
BASF to increase production capacity for t-butylamine plant in Nanjing
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will expand the production capacity of its existing world-scale production…
Outotec to modernize Norilsk Nickel’s smelter in Russia
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by JSC MMC Norilsk Nickel…
Fluor and Technip JV awarded contract for Sasol’s La. ethane cracker and derivatives complex
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com), in a joint venture (JV) with Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com),…
Caloric wins its first project in the U.K.
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has won its first contract in the U.K. for…
New Air Products Lab will help oil recyclers optimize hydrotreatment processes
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) is building a hydrogen laboratory at its corporate headquarters…
Fluor and Technip awarded RAPID Refinery Facilities Project in Malaysia
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com), in a joint venture (JV) with Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com),…
ThyssenKrupp wins follow-up order for cement plant in Saudi Arabia
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com), the ThyssenKrupp Group's plant engineering specialist, has received…
UOP phenol technology selected by Cepsa Chemical in China
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says that Cepsa Chemical (Shanghai) Co.…
BASF to divest global textile chemicals business to Archroma
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Archroma (Reinach, Switzerland www.archroma.com) have agreed on the sale…
Evonik opens new production facility in Brazil
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) will start operations in a new plant to produce…
Foster Wheeler awarded EPC contract for Clean Fuels Project at Salina Cruz
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and…
CB&I lands gasification-technology contract in China
CB&I (The Woodlands, Rex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by Shandong Sincier Petrochemical Co.…
Clariant invests in personal- and home-care segments in Asia
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) will build a new production facility at its Tangerang site…
CB&I announces technology award in the Kingdom of Bahrain
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) today announced Chevron Lummus Global, a joint venture between CB&I…
Evonik boosts capacity for special silicas at its Rheinfelden site
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has officially opened a new production line to manufacture…
BASF inaugurates chemical complex in India
BASF India Ltd. today inaugurated its large-scale chemical production complex at Dahej in Gujarat, India.…
New Borealis JV delivers safe and reliable energy supplies in Porvoo
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) plans to partner with Neste Oil and Veolia in a…
M+W Group receives contract for Merck’s new pharmaceutical facility in China
M+W Group (Stuttgart, Germany; www.mwgroup.net), one of the world’s leading high-tech engineering and construction companies,…
Parker opens Parflex Polymer Innovation Center
Parker Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland, Ohio; www.parker.com), a global leader in motion and control technologies, today…
Eastman to acquire specialty chemicals company Taminco for $2.8 billion; and more business news
Plant Watch Lanxess expands new plant for inorganic pigments in Ningbo September 11, 2014 —…
Rethinking Intellectual Property Policies
A philosophical shift in the way universities treat intellectual property (IP) resulting from industry-sponsored research…
Technical & Practical
Pneumatic Conveying: Optimal System Design, Operation and Control
Numerous strategies and options for both dilute- and dense-phase conveying systems are presented here …
Better Filtration for the Bottom Line
Many applications in the chemical process industries (CPI) require filtration — from cleaning the air…
Hydrogen Cyanide Production
Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is a chemical precursor used in the production of several industrially relevant…
Pressure Transmitter Basics: Selection Guidelines
What are the steps to finding the best pressure sensor for a particular application? That’s…
Pressure Transmitter Basics: DP Transmitters
Pressure transmitters are widely used throughout the chemical process industries (CPI). Although pressure in and…
Reactive Chemistry in the CPI
Reactive chemicals and intermediates are used extensively in the chemical process industries (CPI). Hazardous chemical…
The Next Step Change in Process Safety
From plastics and synthetics to fertilizers and fuel, the general public takes for granted so…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Forces Acting on a Gasket
Gaskets are relatively simple pieces of equipment in principle, yet are entirely critical in many…