Chemical Engineering » uncategorized http://www.chemengonline.com Chemical Engineering essentials for the global chemical processing industries (CPI) Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:15:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 DuPont technology director receives Barnes award http://www.chemengonline.com/dupont-technology-director-receives-barnes-award/ http://www.chemengonline.com/dupont-technology-director-receives-barnes-award/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:27:26 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/?p=117070 DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) Global Technology Director Henry Bryndza today received the Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management at the 2016 American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting in San Diego, California.  Bryndza was recognized for his outstanding leadership of transformational technology development at the interface of chemistry and biology, and for […]

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]]> http://www.chemengonline.com/dupont-technology-director-receives-barnes-award/feed/ 0 CE Bookshelf: March 2016 http://www.chemengonline.com/ce-bookshelf-march-2016/ http://www.chemengonline.com/ce-bookshelf-march-2016/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:37:47 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/?p=115414 Belonging Nowhere: An Engineer in India and the United States. By Jimmy Mathur. Outskirts Press, Denver, Colo., 2015, 257 pages, $17.95. The Engineering Communication Manual. By Richard House, Richard Layton, Jessica Livingston and Sean Moseley. Oxford University Press, 2016, 496 pages, $49.95. Engineering Speaking by Design: Delivering Technical Presentations with Real Impact. By Edward Rothwell […]

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]]> http://www.chemengonline.com/ce-bookshelf-march-2016/feed/ 0 Chementator Briefs http://www.chemengonline.com/chementator-briefs-16/ http://www.chemengonline.com/chementator-briefs-16/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 05:00:12 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/?p=115890 Bio-based PET Later this year, Suntory Holdings Ltd. (Osaka, Japan; www.suntory.com) will start up a demonstration plant in Silsbee, Tex. for the production of 100% bio-based PET bottles. The company will introduce these PET with its Suntory Beverage & Food’s mineral water under the “Suntory Tennensui” brand. Up to now, most bio-based PET bottles contain […]

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]]> http://www.chemengonline.com/chementator-briefs-16/feed/ 0 PVDF eductor nozzles for aggressive chemicals http://www.chemengonline.com/pvdf-eductor-nozzles-aggressive-chemicals/ http://www.chemengonline.com/pvdf-eductor-nozzles-aggressive-chemicals/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/pvdf-eductor-nozzles-aggressive-chemicals/ Eductor nozzles are often used to agitate the contents of tanks to prevent separation and sedimentation. If the chemicals are aggressive or stored at higher temperatures, eductors made from brass or stainless

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]]> http://www.chemengonline.com/pvdf-eductor-nozzles-aggressive-chemicals/feed/ 0 Making more carbon fibers for less http://www.chemengonline.com/making-carbon-fibers-less/ http://www.chemengonline.com/making-carbon-fibers-less/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/making-carbon-fibers-less/ An efficient, energy-saving process for making carbon fibers (diagram) is being developed by a collaboration team of the University of Tokyo, the Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Toray

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]]> http://www.chemengonline.com/making-carbon-fibers-less/feed/ 0 Bio-based BTX test facility breaks ground in Texas http://www.chemengonline.com/bio-based-btx-test-facility-breaks-ground-texas/ http://www.chemengonline.com/bio-based-btx-test-facility-breaks-ground-texas/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/bio-based-btx-test-facility-breaks-ground-texas/ Construction has begun on a testing and development facility for a bio-based process to produce benzene, toluene and xylenes (BTX) from woody biomass. The test facility is intended to demonstrate all unit

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]]> http://www.chemengonline.com/bio-based-btx-test-facility-breaks-ground-texas/feed/ 1 Monetizing coke-oven gas, while capturing CO2 http://www.chemengonline.com/monetizing-coke-oven-gas-capturing-co2/ http://www.chemengonline.com/monetizing-coke-oven-gas-capturing-co2/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/monetizing-coke-oven-gas-capturing-co2/ A process that converts process gases, generated during the production of metallurgical coke, into marketable chemicals is being developed in a pilot plant installed on the works site of thyssenKrupp Steel

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]]> http://www.chemengonline.com/monetizing-coke-oven-gas-capturing-co2/feed/ 0 Progress for high-efficiency ammonia-cogeneration plant http://www.chemengonline.com/progress-high-efficiency-ammonia-cogeneration-plant/ http://www.chemengonline.com/progress-high-efficiency-ammonia-cogeneration-plant/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/progress-high-efficiency-ammonia-cogeneration-plant/ A process that produces anhydrous ammonia while also generating thermal power has reached a milestone toward commercialization. In January, Amec Foster Wheeler (AFW; London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) was awarded a

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]]> http://www.chemengonline.com/progress-high-efficiency-ammonia-cogeneration-plant/feed/ 0 Making aerogel absorbants from wastepaper http://www.chemengonline.com/making-aerogel-absorbants-wastepaper/ http://www.chemengonline.com/making-aerogel-absorbants-wastepaper/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/making-aerogel-absorbants-wastepaper/ A team from the National University of Singapore (www.nus.edu.sg), led by assistant professor Duong Hai Minh from the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, has succeeded in converting paper waste into cellulose

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]]> http://www.chemengonline.com/making-aerogel-absorbants-wastepaper/feed/ 0 Extracting platinum metals http://www.chemengonline.com/extracting-platinum-metals/ http://www.chemengonline.com/extracting-platinum-metals/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.chemengonline.com/extracting-platinum-metals/ The traditional method for recovering platinum-group metals (Pt, Pa, Ir, Os, Rh, Ru and Au) is not economically viable in the case of low-grade deposits, but researchers from the Western Australian School of

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