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BASF to realign its fuel cell business and more
Siemens gasification technology selected for Taylorville Energy Center November 10, 2009 — Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.; www.siemens.com) has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), the 730-MW (gross) advanced clean-coal generating plant…
Herman Purutyan named CEO at Jenike & Johnson…
Bradley Huber Kullman Thibault Purutyan Paul Bradley becomes business manager —specialties peroxygens group for Solvay Chemicals (Houston). W. Troy Roder, president and CEO of Houston-based Foster Wheeler USA becomes chairman and CEO of Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. (Reading, England). ABB…
Smooth Your Retrieval of Plant-Design Data
Most chemical engineers involved with operating large chemical process facilities have encountered the following challenge: Several large engineering contractors built the facility in multiple phases, using different computer-software models. Retrieving drawings or data in both digital and non-digital form in…
Calendar: January to March 2010
21st International Organic Process Research & Development. Scientific Update Conferences (East Sussex, U.K.). Phone: +44 (0) 1435 873062; Web: scientificupdate.co.uk San Diego, Calif. Jan. 20–22 Stem Cells World Congress. Select Biosciences (Shelton, Conn.). Phone: 203-926-1400; Web: selectbiosciences.com South San…
SABIC & Linde: 1st commercialization of LAO
Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) and The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) announced today the first successful commercialization of Linear Alpha Olefins (LAO), using α-SABLIN technology developed jointly by SABIC and Linde. Discussions began in 1998…
Emissions monitoring study of BP refinery completed by Mustang
Mustang Engineering L.P. (Houston, Tex.; www.mustangeng.com) has completed a front-end engineering study of an emissions monitoring project at a 225,000 bbl/d BP (London, U.K.; www.bp.com) refinery. In the study, Mustang evaluated the automation of the Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) at…
40th Kirkpatrick Award Announced
At a reception Tuesday evening, Chemical Engineering announced this year’s finalists and the winner of the 2009 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award, a biennial prize that the magazine has bestowed continuously since the early 1930s. The award recognizes the most…
Honeywell to establish technology center in India
Honeywell (Morris Township, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) will establish a new technology center in Gurgaon, India, to expand its global research capabilities in refining, petrochemical and other technologies in order to better serve customers in the region. The company will invest $34…
Linde & Algenol: algae-to-biofuel R&D
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Algenol Biofuels LLC (Bonita Springs, Fla.; www.algenolbiofuels.com) have agreed to collaborate in a joint development project in order to identify the optimum management of carbon dioxide and oxygen for Algenol’s unique algae and…