April 2009, Capital Costs Quickly Calculated, pp. 46 – 52: In three places in the box at the top of p. 47, the factor 0.8 should have been rendered as an exponent and was not [30.8 at the bottom of…
Hazards of Oil Refining Distillation Units. By BP International Ltd. (BP Process Safety Series). Institution of Chemical Engineers, Davis Building, Railway Terrace, Rugby CV21 3HQ, U.K. Web: icheme.org. 2008. 81 pages, £27. Reviewed by Stanley S. Grossel, Process Safety &…
As an expert in thermal, diffusional and membrane separation technology for the separation and purification of aqueous and organic mixtures, Kühni provides process engineering services, designs, manufactures and supplies process equipment and turn-key modular plants to the process industry with…
Skire, Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.), a provider of capital program, facilities, real estate and project portfolio management software has announced that Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has selected Skire Unifier as its strategic enterprise project management system for supporting global…
Emerson Process Management (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emersonprocess.com) has joined the Profibus Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO; www.profibus.com) to expand technology that will improve asset and machinery health management for its customers. Process manufacturers use several buses to digitally integrate their facilities. Foundation…
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Jochen Homann handed Dr. Hans-Jürgen Kress, head of the Operational Excellence unite (OPEX) at Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) the award for taking third place in the International Energy…
Bayer MaterialScience AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) has invested 2.3 million euros in a new production line for its Baycusan range of waterborne polyurethane dispersions (PUD) for the cosmetics and medical segments. The new facility, which forms part of the PUD…
The Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) says that its Energy & Chemicals Group has been selected by Sasol to provide basic engineering support for two Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) units. Shaw is providing the basic engineering package for the Fischer-Tropsch…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its catalysts-manufacturing facility in Nanjing, China, to Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com). The facility is independent from BASF’s main Verbund site in Nanjing. Both…
BASF Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) has completed a significant debottlenecking and expansion project to meet the growing global demand for its current and new polypropylene catalysts. The increased capacity is specifically targeted for producing the company’s breakthrough LYNX polypropylene…