Business & Economics
Ineos Technologies: Innovene Polypropylene Process for China
Ineos Technologies (www.ineos.com) has today confirmed it has licensed its Innovene PP Process for the manufacture of homopolymers, random copolymers and impact copolymers to the Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yanan Energy and Chemical Company Limited in Shaanxi, China. The 300,000-ton/yr Innovene…
MIT launches graphene research center
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, Mass.; www.mit.edu) today announced the creation of the MIT/MTL Center for Graphene Devices and Systems (MIT-CG). This interdepartmental center, part of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), brings together MIT researchers and industrial partners…
Foster Wheeler: Contract for hydrogen production unit in Kazakhstan
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract for the basic engineering design of a new hydrogen production unit, based on Foster Wheeler Terrace-Wall steam-reforming…
ChemInnovations 2011 Conference & Expo
Exhibitors and attendees alike are getting geared up for the 2nd annual ChemInnovations Conference and Expo (www.cpievent.com), which runs from September 13–15 at the George Brown Convention Center in Houston. Focused on breakthrough ideas, emerging technologies and game-changing solutions in…
Current economic trends
Capital equipment prices, as reflected in the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI), increased approximately 1.2% on average from May to June, after decreasing approximately 0.10% from April to May. Meanwhile, according to the American Chemistry Council’s (Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) latest…
Weftec 2011 Show Preview
The 84th annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (Weftec 2011) will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from October 15–19 (the exhibition runs from October 17–19). The largest annual water quality event in the world…
GE Energy names Dan Heintzelman CEO of GE Oil and Gas….
Griffiths Heintzelman Lipetzky Harris Park Carbogen Amcis AG (Bubendorf, Switzerland), a pharmaceutical process developer and manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients, names Mark Griffiths CEO. GE Energy (Atlanta, Ga.), names Dan Heintzelman CEO of GE Oil & Gas. He is currently…
Solvay to form JV with Sadara to build hydrogen peroxide plant in Saudi Arabia and more business news
Plant Watch Solvay to form JV with Sadara to build H2O2 plant in Saudi Arabia July 28, 2011 — Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) intends to create a 50:50 joint venture (JV) with Sadara Chemical Co. (itself a planned JV…
Process Control book reviewed by Kvaerner America’s Montgomery
Reviewed by Ronnie Montgomery, Kvaerner America, Houston Those of us who have been challenged by the complexities of process-control-loop strategies can appreciate the in-depth knowledge and experience that Myke King has shared with us in this text. This book provides…
KBR: Licensing and engineering services for NH3 plant in India
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) — a Jaypee Group company — to provide license and engineering design services for JAL’s brownfield 2,200 metric tons (m.t.) per day ammonia plant in Kanpur, India. KBR…