Engineering an Answer to Poverty Chemical engineers around the world have been challenged to put their design and innovation skills to the test and help some of the planet’s poorest communities. The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE; www.icheme.org; Rugby, U.K.)…
North America Water Treatment and Corrosion Control In Water Systems. Professional Analytic and Consulting Services (Coraopolis, Pa.). Phone: 724-457-6576; Fax: 724-457-1214; Web: pacslabs.com Boston, Mass. Jul. 5 – 6 Quality Assurance of Chemical Measurements. Professional Analytic and Consulting Services (Coraopolis,…
At 2,064 ft as of this past April, the unfinished Burj Dubai skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates is the tallest man-made structure on earth. "A structure of this kind is only possible if the right [concrete] mixture is guaranteed,"…
Aquionics Inc. (Erlanger, Ky.) appoints Kevin Shannon vice-president of sales and marketing. Pierre Patrick Crevier is named senior technologist for the Claus business of Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France). Colibrys (Neuchatel, Switzerland) elects Don Stoops vice-president, global operations. Chris Stevens becomes general…
Plant Watch A new cement plant is planned for Arizona May 19, 2008 — ABB has won an order to provide a complete electrical power and automation system for Drake Cement’s new plant in Yavapai County, Arizona. The 660,000-ton/yr plant…
Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com), and EuroChem (Moscow), have signed two contracts with a total value of 92.7 million euros for the design and supply of a melamine plant. The melamine unit, which will be the first of its kind…
Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com) has completed its roll-out of the 2nd generation gPROMS process-modeling platform with the release of gPROMS v3.1. gPROMS is widely used by large process industry companies in the oil & gas, chemicals, pharmaceutical…
Wonderware (Lake Forest, Calif.; us.wonderware.com), a business unit of Invensys Plc. (London; www.invensys.com), today announced the release of the Wonderware IndustryPack for Water & Wastewater designed to enhance overall productivity in facility operations for the water and wastewater industry. This…
To meet the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) today announced that it will expand production of its Solamet thick-film metallization pastes at its Electronic Materials DuPont Dongguan Ltd. (EMDD) facility in China.…
Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has received an order for the Packinox plate heat exchanger from a petrochemical company in China. The order value is about SEK 60 million, and delivery is scheduled for 2009. “During the second quarter this…