BASF SA (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is building a new plant for the production of methylamines at its integrated Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana, that is scheduled to start operations in 2011. The methylamines will serve as raw materials for some…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.powergeneration.siemens.com) has built a large ground-based photovoltaic (PV) plant in Italy under contract to Ferrarelle S.p.A, the Italian bottled water company. The turnkey solar power plant, with a peak capacity of 1 megawatt (MWp), was constructed…
HPD (Plainfield, Ill.), a Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies company (www.veoliawater.com), has been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) phase for Natural Soda’s proposed “State of the Art” expansion at its existing facility near Rifle, Colorado. The design effort from…
Süd-Chemie AG (www.sud-chemie.com) The Linde Group (Both Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) have started up a pilot plant for processing lignocellulosic biomass (straw) into biofuels. The facility — officially opened at Süd-Chemie’s research center in Munich-Obersendling on April 27 — will be…
Solutia Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.;www.solutia.com) will be supplying Therminol synthetic heat transfer fluid to a new 50-MW, solar-thermal power plant in Lebrija, Spain, which will start up in spring 2010. Iberese, a Spanish company dedicated to building and managing plants…
ESK Ceramics GmbH & Co. KG (Kempten, Germany; www.esk.com) and Ceratec Technical Ceramics BV (Geldermalsen, Netherlands; www.ceratec.nl), have deepened their already 20-year-old, successful business relationship. At the end of 2008, the two partners signed a contract focusing on intensifying joint…
Sarlink (Sittard, Netherlands; www.sarlink.com) has officially opened a new production facility in Genk, Belgium. The new plant will double Sarlink’s global capacity and provide the company with a timely expansion as Thermoplastic Vulcanisate (TPV) material solutions are becoming more popular…
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 &…
Clements Murray Davidson McCarty Rummel John Paterson becomes vice-president of Ross Mixing, Inc. (Port St. Lucie, Fla.), a division of Charles Ross and Son Co. (Hauppauge, N.Y.). Paratherm Corp. (West Conshohocken, Pa.) promotes Rich Clements to COO and vice-president of…