Chementator: Purifying ethanol without distillation
Ultrasound Brewery Co. (Naruto, Japan; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5825-535) has developed a process that separates the water from…
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Chementator: Controlling free-radical polymerizations
Arkema, Inc. (formerly Atofina Chemicals, Inc.; King of Prussia, Pa.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5825-536) has commercialized a patented…
Chementator: A demonstration for an integrated MTO and olefin-cracking process
Total Petrochemicals (Brussels; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5825-531) and UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5825-532) plan to construct at…
Chementator: A new anode may double the energy density of Li-ion batteries
Using lithium metal as the anode of secondary Li-ion batteries would double the energy density…
Chementator: Carbon nanotubes
CEVP Ltd. (Newhaven, U.K.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5825-544) has developed a fabrication tool that grows carbon nanotubes (CNTs)…
Chementator: Semi-renewable plastic
BASF AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5825-546) has developed a biodegradable plastic that contains 45% polylactic acid,…
Chementator: This end-of-pipe process treats all fluegas pollutants...
This month, the first field tests will be conducted on a pilot plant, developed by…
Chementator: ...and this process makes power from waste heat
WOW Energy (see item above) has also developed a patented process that uses commercial, off-the…
Chementator: Smelling false alarms
An electronic nose capable of distinguishing between cigarette smoke and smoke from an office or…
Chementator: Biodiesel
Lurgi AG (Frankfurt, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5825-549) is building the world’s largest biodiesel plant for Neckermann-Renewables GmbH…
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Titanium oxide
Du Pont (Wilmington, Del.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5825-550) and the city of Dongying, China, have reached an agreement…
Chementator: Beyond petroleum
With plans to double its investment in alternative energy, BP (London; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5825-551) has formed BP…
Cyclohexane
Last month, BASF AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5825-543) started up its first plant for producing cyclohexane.…
Outlook for 2006: Challenges Plus Chances
As the chemical process industries (CPI) enter 2006, executives, economists and other observers articulate a…
Technical & Practical
Avoid Leakage in Pipe Systems
Leakage costs industry millions of dollars every year. For example, a few small…
Keeping fast-track projects from going off the rails
Whether working on retrofits or new-plant construction, engineers involved with chemical-process projects nowadays are likely…
Guidelines for Solids Storage, Feeding and Conveying
These observations and recommendations —reflecting decades of experience — can help operators avoid a lot…
Immersion Heaters: Selection & Implementation
Immersion heaters are used in a wide variety of applications in the chemical…
Pilot Plant Cost Estimating: Make Intelligent Use of Contingency
The first two installments of this three-part series (CE, November 2005, pp. 40–45,…
Applying Thermo? Then Guard Against Misconceptions
In process engineering and design, thermodynamics theory is applied to real and complex…