Chemical Engineering
Business News: October 2026
Plant Watch Evonik breaks ground on €80-million biotechnology expansion in Slovakia September 14, 2026 — Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has broken ground on a new biotechnology expansion project at its Fermas site in Slovakia, part of the €80-million…
Industrial Heat Pumps for Waste-Heat Upgrading
Electrification of industrial processes using heat pumps is moving from niche applications toward the mainstream, but challenges to their implementation remain Decarbonization initiatives have focused attention on the production of process heat for industrial operations without the combustion of fossil…
Facts At Your Fingertips: Real-Time Particle-Size Measurement
Particle size is a key parameter in many solids-handling processes, and can have a strong influence on product performance and quality, as well as for effectiveness of downstream operations. One important approach to particle-size measurement is conducting real-time, inline measurement…
Innovating Inspection: Advanced Nondestructive Testing in Hydrocarbon Plants
Nondestructive testing (NDT) can play a key role in ensuring safety at petrochemical and related plants. Provided here is an overview of available technologies for NDT, including capabilities and limitations, as well as training standards Inspection and maintenance of petroleum…
Recovering Valuable Chemicals from Vapor Streams Using Absorption
Absorption can pull a high-value component out of an air stream and return it for reuse, often at a lower cost than destroying it Many chemical and biological processes produce a vapor stream that is primarily air, but contains a…
Testing Hydrogen Infrastructure Materials: A Practical Framework
As hydrogen infrastructure expands, existing material-qualification frameworks must keep pace with hydrogen-specific degradation risks, such as embrittlement, stress corrosion cracking, permeation and accelerated aging Hydrogen infrastructure deployment is speeding up in the chemical process industries (CPI). However, the material qualification…
Mobile Rounds, Real-Time Results: Kaneka Brings Operator Rounds into the Digital Age
At Kaneka North America, replacing paper procedures and reports with guided digital workflows for operator rounds streamlined knowledge-sharing and improved process consistency Kaneka North America LLC, a division of Kaneka Corp. (Osaka, Japan; www.kaneka.com), manufactures specialty chemicals and advanced polymer…
Air Liquide invests 170 million euros to supply ultra-high-purity gases to semiconductor manufacturer in Japan
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) today announced a new investment of more than 170 million euros to supply ultra-high purity gases to a leading semiconductor manufacturer in Japan. Under a long-term agreement, the Group will support the expansion of its…
Gen-H Energy and Hycamite sign MoU for power project in Finland based on methane pyrolysis
GEN-H Energy SL (Madrid, Spain; www.gen-h.com) is planning a 200–300-megawatt balancing power project in Kotka, Finland, where electricity will be generated from natural gas without carbon dioxide emissions. Hycamite (Kokkola, Finland; www.hycamite.com) equipment – based on methane pyrolysis – will…
Environmental Controls Can Reduce Operating Costs, Not Just Emissions
For a long time, air-pollution control equipment was budgeted the way a company budgets for fire insurance: a necessary cost with no expectation of a return. That framing is outdated, and for a growing number of manufacturers, it is costing…