Making 'natural' gas from coal
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6892-531) has relaunched a methanation process, called TREMP, which makes…
This modified catalyst additive improves the yield and quality from FCC units
Conventional fluid-catalytic-cracking (FCC) catalysts are based on USY-type of zeolites (having a pore size of…
A thermal wet-air-oxidation process treats gasifier soot
Scheduled for startup in the second half of this year, the Long Lake integrated bitumen…
Continuously replace spent FCC catalyst with this magnetic separator
Nippon Oil Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6892-538) has completed a confirmation test of a magnetic-separation process…
Siemens lands a new coal-gasification contract
Siemens Power Generation (Erlangen, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6892-542) has received a €-30-million contract from Shenhua Ningxia Coal…
New biofuels
U.S. Sustainable Energy Corp. (Natchez, Miss.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6892-543) has developed a new biofuel, SoyMazia 128, that…
Degradable bubblepack
Advanced Excelsior Co. (Houston, Tex.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6892-545) has launched Bio-Bubble, claimed to be the world’s first…