The National Food Research Institute (NFRI) of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO;…

Construction of a large-scale waste-to-energy plant will start in the middle of next year in…

Last month, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; www.mhi.co.jp) and Tokyo Gas Co. (both Tokyo, Japan;…

  Acetic acid from syngas A new process for the production of acetic acid claims…

The effluent discharged by domestic industries in Japan amounts to approximately 11.1 billion ton/yr. Most…

A research team from the University of Western Australia (Perth; www.uwa.edu.au), led by professor Dongke…

Petroleum refineries generate power from a number of sources, including cogeneration plants and steam networks.…

A new process for producing monoethylene glycol (MEG) from synthesis-gas-based feedstocks is nearing completion of…

Low-grade nickel (less than 1.5 wt.%) laterite ores represent about 70% of global reserves but…

Pilot plant operation has been completed for a process that produces the fertilizer potassium sulfate…

Outotec (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) will deliver technology and services worth over €100 million to Cengiz…

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced today that its leading ammonia process technology has been selected by…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by CNOOC Oil & Petrochemicals Company Ltd. a contract…

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a long-term agreement for the production of…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Renmatix Inc. (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.renmatix.com) will jointly scale up…

Haldor Topsøe A/S’ (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) board of directors today approved the capital investment needed…

Bechtel (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) has been selected by BHP Billiton to provide engineering, project…

The plant engineering and construction company Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) and Octal Petrochemicals, the…

S.C. Poerner Romania S.r.l. (Bucharest), the Romanian subsidiary of the Pörner Group (Vienna, Austia; www.poerner.at),…

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) today announced the second expansion of its ethoxylation site at Clear…

Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) and Exterran Energy Solutions, L.P. (Exterran) are joining…

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $1 billion…

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and…

Bartec GmbH (Bad Mergentheim, Germany; www.bartec.de) has acquired Pixavi (Stavanger, Norway), a world leading supplier…

Plant Watch Chandra Asri and Michelin partner on synthetic-rubber manufacturing plant November 11, 2013 —…

There is increasing interest in meeting the growing demand for generating power, fuels and chemicals…

While staffing issues continue to be a tremendous challenge for companies in the chemical process…

CUI — that acronym should be enough to capture your attention. All chemical process industries…

Gear units play a critical role in a diverse array of chemical process industries (CPI)…

A plant turnaround is always challenging in the chemical process industries (CPI). But with proper…

Olefin dimerization is a reaction where two molecules of a monomer combine to form a…

When the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) revised the U.S. Hazard Communication Law,…

The topic of carrying out process engineering calculations in the most effective manner can be…