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UOP process technologies selected for refinery upgrade in Uzbekistan

Honeywell (Charlotte, N.C.) announced that Bukhara Refinery LLC, a subsidiary of JSC Uzbekneftegaz, will use UOP technology to increase crude oil conversion and produce cleaner-burning Euro-V standard gasoline and diesel fuel in compliance with the government of Uzbekistan’s stricter specifications…

Shell contracts ABB to help expand blending capabilities at Jakarta lube-oil plant

ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) announced that its specialized process engineering company in France, Cellier Activity, has been awarded the contract to install new blending technologies and a process control system at Shell’s Marunda Lube Oil Blending Plant (LOBP) in Jakarta, in…

Bostik inaugurates a new industrial adhesives plant in Japan

Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) announces the start-up of a new world-scale industrial adhesives plant in Japan. Those new capacities will enable Bostik to serve its Japanese customers in the continuously growing markets of diapers, hygiene, packaging, labeling, transportation and electronics.…

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Commercial debut for an upgrading process

After four years of project development and execution, the new PolyFuel unit at Petrobrazi petroleum refinery in Romania has been started-up and is fully functional since April 2019. Based on the PolyFuel technology licensed by Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net), the…

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A Shortcut to Optimize Pipe Diameters by Economic Criteria

This methodology can be used not only for laminar flow, but also for the complete turbulent flow region In recent decades, the impact of energy costs on the transport of fluids has led to a significant reduction in fluid velocity…

Keeping warming to 1.5˚C impossible without reducing short-lived climate pollutants

A much-anticipated report by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (www.ipcc.org) shows there is still a long way to go if we want to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C and prevent dangerous warming. But the report also…

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