Chemical Engineering
Corbion to triple production capacity for acid-powder products
Corbion (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has announced that a new production line at the existing site in Spain will triple the company's capacity for producing acid powder ingredients and support the creation and growth of next-generation confectionery and other food products…
Evonik acquires Argentinian biotechnology firm Novachem
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has acquired Novachem, an Argentinian sustainable cosmetic actives innovator. Novachem offers a strong, innovative portfolio of biotechnological, natural and sustainable cosmetic active ingredients with scientifically proven claims that will boost Evonik’s portfolio of System Solutions.…
Bulk Solids Handling Seminar — July 13
Jenike & Johanson, the world’s leading powder and bulk solids handling company, has announced its Bulk Solids Handling Seminar, a full-day, interactive seminar aiming to prepare you to improve the bulk solids handling processes at your facility immediately. After the…
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Protecting the air we breathe
It has long been known, from advanced monitoring and modeling, that pollutants can linger in the air and travel long distances from their sources. Local air quality can therefore be affected by disturbances that happen in far-away parts of the…
A new class of proton-conducting materials operates at lower temperatures
A new material could open the door to more effective protonic ceramic fuel cells (PCFCs). PCFCs are a promising energy source that employ specialized ceramic materials to conduct protons (instead of electrons) at much lower temperatures than typical solid-oxide fuel…
This photocatalytic reactor system makes chemicals without fossil fuels
Last May, Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) was selected by Syzygy Plasmonics (Houston; www.plasmonics.tech) to automate its all-electric photocatalytic reactor technology. Syzygy has developed, scaled and integrated its core technologies, incubated at, and licensed from, Rice University (Houston; www.rice.edu), into…
Photochemistry boosts the yield of chiral compounds
Isolation and purification of pure, active enantiomers is important in the development of active pharmaceutical ingredients and drug products. However, recovering the desired optical isomer from a racemic mixture means half of the chemical produced — the undesired isomer —…
Commercial debut for a batch reverse-osmosis system
Earlier this year, Salinity Solutions Ltd. (Coventry, U.K.; www.salinitysolutions.co.uk) signed an agreement with Te-Tech Process Solutions (Totton, Southampton, U.K.; www.te-tech.co.uk) to manufacture commercial water-purification systems based on batch reverse-osmosis (RO). This technology, originally characterized and developed at the University of…
Business News: July 2023
Plant Watch ALPLA to construct PET recycling plant in South Africa June 13, 2023 — Alpla Group (Hard, Austria; www.alpla.com) is building a new recycling plant in Ballito, South Africa. The plant, with an output of 35,000 metric tons per…