September Plant Watch & Business News
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Eastman plans a dramatic increase in chemicals production from syngas
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-534), which has been producing chemicals via coal gasification (flowsheet)…
ABB divests Lummus
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-546) has agreed to sell its Lummus Global business to Chicago Bridge…
A new spin on vacuum degassing of polymer melts
Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-541) has developed a patented technology that significantly increases…
Butyl rubber
ExxonMobil Chemical (Houston, Tex.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-543) has commercialized a new process for making butyl rubber at…
Putting ionic liquids and CO2 to work in upgrading low-temperature heat sources
BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-536) and CogniTek Management Systems, Inc. (Northfield, Ill.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-537) have…
Ceramic ferrules
Blasch Precision Ceramics (Albany, N.Y.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-548) has commercialized one-piece hex-head ferrules made of 99.6% alumina…
CO2 capture
BP Alternative Energy (Sunbury, (U.K.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-544) and Powerspan Corp. (Portsmouth, N.H.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-545) are collaborating to…
Bending polymers imitate the beauty of nature
Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Racah Institute of Physics (Israel; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6899-539) have succeeded…
Technical & Practical
Dry Screening: Sorting Out The Basic Concepts
The screening process has always been the workhorse for solid-solid separation in chemical,…