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Haldor Topsøe and Linde supply technology for POSCO’s SNG plant in South Korea
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), a market leading provider of integrated catalyst solutions, today announced they have been selected as technology suppliers for the syngas treatment and methanation unit…
Pulsafeeder acquires PeriFlow
Pulsafeeder Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.; www.pulsa.com) has acquired PeriFlo, Inc. (Loveland, Ohio; www.periflo.com) a leading provider of peristaltic pumps for the industrial and municipal water and wastewater markets. An innovative manufacturer, PeriFlo offers a complete family of peristaltic hose pumps for…
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both at University of Manchester, U.K. “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”. A thin flake of ordinary…
Bartec acquires Technor Safe Ex
Bartec GmbH (Bad Mergentheim, Germany; www.bartec.de) has acquired Technor Safe Ex AS (Stavanger, Norway), one of the key markets for European oil-and-gas production, Technor heads its domestic market in the sale of explosion-proof equipment and systems. Typical applications for the…
GEA: Major orders from Morocco and Hong Kong
GEA Mechanical Equipment (www.geaquipment.com), a segment of GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received two major orders for the delivery of fuel systems for a gas-turbine power plant in Morocco and of decanters for the municipal wastewater clarification plant…
A new multiphase contactor promises to cut costs for carbon capture and more
Westec Environmental Solutions, LLC (WES; Chicago, Ill.; www.wes-worldwide.com) has developed a gas-liquid absorption technology that can dramatically enhance mass transfer in gas-liquid absorption, extraction and scrubbing systems. The patented WES Absorber operates co-currently and creates a micro-froth matrix that intensifies…
‘World’s first’ commercial plant to produce biofuel from municipal waste
Enerkem Inc. (Montreal, Can-ada; www.enerkem.com) has broken ground in Edmonton, Alberta, on what is said to be the world’s first industrial-scale plant to produce liquid fuel from municipal solid waste. When the plant starts up at the end of 2011,…
Modifier improves the heat tolerance of bioplastic
Plastic derived from corn, used mostly for bottles and cups, costs about 20% more than petroleum-based plastics, but has two desirable qualities: it comes from a renewable resource and is biodegradable. However, the use of the plastic — polylactic acid…
Graphene produced by CVD launched commercially
Graphene Laboratories Inc. (Reading, Mass.; www.graphenelab.com) and CVD Equipment Corp. (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.; www.cvdequipment.com) recently announced the commercial launch of single-layer graphene films, marketed as CVDGraphene, grown by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. Using slightly modified CVD equipment that has…
Rare-Earth Metals For the Future
As demand for rare-earth metals in a wide range of technology applications continues to increase, efforts to reestablish mining and production of rare-earth elements (REEs) is underway outside China, currently the dominant force in REE production. Future supplies of REEs…