Chemical Engineering
A new way to capture CO2 in cement
Technologies designed to capture and store CO2 emissions from industrial operations are rapidly gaining traction, but finding ways to economically utilize the captured CO2 has posed challenges. A team of engineers from the University of California Los Angeles’ (UCLA; www.ucla.edu)…
Facts At Your Fingertips: NFPA 652 and Dust Hazards Analyses
The National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA; Quincy, Mass.; www.nfpa.org) NFPA 652 (Standard on the Fundamentals of Combustible Dust) creates a single, unified combustible-dust standard that applies to “all facilities and operations that manufacture, process, blend, convey, repackage, generate, or handle…
Technology Profile: Production of Sodium Hydroxide from Brine
Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is a white, translucent crystalline solid that is widely used in the chemical process industries (CPI). NaOH is often referred to as caustic soda, due to its corrosive action on many substances: it decomposes proteins at room…
Toray starts up advanced film-production capabilities at Mashima plant
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that new film-development machinery installed at its Mishima Plant has become fully operational. This new setup will enable the company to create advanced offerings for an increasingly sophisticated and diverse film market. The machinery…
Total announces name change to TotalEnergies
At the Ordinary and Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, shareholders approved today, almost unanimously, the resolution to change the company’s name from Total to TotalEnergies SE, thereby anchoring its strategic transformation into a broad energy company in its identity. In tandem with…
Wood wins FEED contract for Adnoc’s blue ammonia plant
Wood (Aberdeen, Scotland) has been engaged by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to perform Pre Front-End Engineering and Design (Pre-FEED) work for the company’s recently announced blue ammonia project and the six additional TA’ZIZ chemicals projects. Adnoc recently announced…
Toyo awarded ammonia plant project in India
Toyo Engineering India Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo), has been awarded an ammonia plant project with a capacity of 1,500 tons per day and associated offsite and utility facilities from Performance Chemiserve Limited (PCL),…
New project in Ireland will investigate offshore green-hydrogen storage
ESB and dCarbonX have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint assessment and development of Irish offshore green hydrogen subsurface storage. This partnership represents another milestone in Ireland’s emerging hydrogen economy as part of its transition to a low-carbon future. Under this agreement, ESB and dCarbonX will work together on…
Eastman to expand capacity for cellulosic filaments at Barcelona site
To serve rapidly growing customer demand, global specialty materials provider Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.) is increasing its capacity to produce Naia filament yarn at its Barcelona, S.L., site by 30% by mid-2021 and more than 50% by the end…
Chevron Phillips breaks ground for new 1-hexene plant
Chevron Phillips Chemical L.P. (CP Chem; The Woodlands, Tex.) broke ground on a new world-scale unit for on-purpose 1-hexene in Old Ocean, Texas, near its Sweeny facility. With a capacity of 266,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), the new asset…