Chementator: Borrowing from aviation to improve compression
With funding from the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.), Ramgen Power Systems (Bellevue,…
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Chementator: A new coating for steel
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL; Richland, Wash.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-537) have developed a ceramic-based coating…
Chementator: Controlled polymerization
Warwick Effect Polymers (WEP; Coventry, U.K.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-540) has licensed patented technology from Carnegie Mellon University…
Chementator: Industry group to develop a multifunctional wireless network standard
An industrial group, composed of Honeywell, Adaptive Instruments, Endress + Hauser, Flowserve, Omnex Control Systems,…
Chementator: Mercury removal
Battelle (Columbus, Ohio; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-544) has licensed the Samms technology, developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory…
Chementator: Bioethanol
Fluxome Sciences A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-547) has been granted patents in both the U.S.and Europe…
Chementator: Waste-to-oil
Last month, Clyvia Technology GmbH (Wegberg, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-548), a fully owned subsidiary of Clyvia Inc.…
Chementator: Nanotube membranes
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Calif.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-551) have constructed a membrane of…
Chementator: Surface treatment
NexGen Technologies, LLC (Farmington Hills, Mich.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-552) has commercialized a next-generation of engineered surface treatments…
Chementator: OLED breakthrough
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-553) has demonstrated the ability to print small-molecule OLED (organic light-emitting diode)…
Chementator: A new reactor is set to change the way chemicals are produced
Alfa Laval AB (Lund, Sweden; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-531) has developed a new reactor system, called Alfa Laval…
Chementator: Sonocrystallization makes a salty spray
Sodium chloride aerosols are widely used as part of bronchial provocation tests to identify people…
Chementator: A commercial debut for a process to make propylene oxide
At last month’s Achema conference (Frankfurt; May 15–19), Norbert Ullrich, chief engineer at Uhde GmbH…
Chementator: Another ‘green’ process to make caprolactam
Professor Yasutaka Ishii, and colleagues from the Dept. of Applied Chemistry, Kansai University (Osaka, Japan;…
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Chementator: A continuous route to HI generates less effluent
Nippoh Chemicals Co. (Tokyo; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-539), is developing a continuous, vapor-phase process to produce hydroiodic acid…
Chementator: This biodiesel reactor is made of duplex
Although many new biodiesel plants are sprouting up around the world, Perstorp Oxo AB’s (Stenungsund…
Chementator: New TDI process
Bayer MaterialScience AG (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-546) has developed a new process for producing toluene…
Chementator: Disposable bioreactors
ATMI Life Sciences (ATMI; Hoegaarden, Belgium; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-549) and Pierre Guérin SAS (Mauze sur le Mignon,…
Newsfront: Monitoring Corrosion Online and in Realtime
Corrosion has the chemical process industries seeing red in their metal tanks and pipelines —…
Technical & Practical
Biological Treatment of VOCs
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), together with particulate matter, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides,…
How to Prepare a Process Design Basis
Intelligent — and thorough — preparation of a process-design-basis document can make the…
Important Determinants Of Solvent Selection
Early predictions suggested that solvents would eventually be eliminated from industrial applications because…
Infrared Temperature Monitoring: Know the Right Questions to Ask
The infrared approach to temperature monitoring is especially useful in situations where process temperatures are…