A new roll-to-roll manufacturing process promises to overcome the major cost barriers impeding the widespread…

This month, the newly released Foundation for Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) was demonstrated at Shell…

Photovoltaics manufacturer Konarka Technologies, Inc. (Lowell, Mass; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7372-546) has successfully performed the first use of…

BP (London; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7372-548) and ConocoPhillips (Houston, Tex.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7372-549) have combined resources to start Denali —…

CLC bio (Aarhus, Denmark; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7372-550) and partners from Danish research institutions and crop-enhancing firms have…

GEA Procomac, a Division of GEA Niro Inc. (Hudson, Wisc.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7372-551) has received a letter…

Last month, Henkel KgaA (Düsseldorf, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7372-552) introduced a new conversion coating process called TecTalis,…

IQTex (Hamburg; Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7372-553) has developed a ventilation element — integrated into the soles of…

At last month’s CosmoProf exhibition (April 10 – 14; Bologna, Italy), VMI-Rayneri (Montaigu, France; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7372-531)…

The Jiashan Yao-chuang wastewater treatment plant in China’s Zhejiang Province has successfully pilot-tested a three-stage,…

Normally, only the ultraviolet (higher energy) component of the solar spectrum is usable for the…

Researchers at Oxford Catalysts Ltd. (Oxford, U.K.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7372-534) have shown that the method of preparation…

A process in which sulfur is extracted from natural gas in the field and converted…

Verenium Corp. (formerly Celunol; Cambridge, Mass.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7372-537) is starting up a 1.4-million gal/yr demonstration-scale facility…

Carbone Lorraine (CL; Paris, France; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7372-538) is launching a new welded-plate heat exchanger, dubbed Heatex,…

Small-scale chemical producers that use chlorine often rely on larger producers, which sell them the…

After opening its new offices last autumn in the United States, the Pieralisi Group (Jesi,…

Swagelok Co. (Solon, Ohio; www.swagelok.com) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the…

After a production period of only 18 months, Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.powergeneration.siemens.com) is to deliver…

BASF S.E. (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is planning to construct a production plant for sodium methylate…

AkzoNobel Functional Chemicals (Amersfoort, Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is relocating the headquarters of its chelates business from…

Emerson Process Management (Bredbury, Stockport, U.K.; www.emersonprocess.eu) has been selected, by the Zhejiang Changxing Glass…

Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) and Rockwood Holdings Inc. (Princeton, N.J.; www.rocksp.com) have agreed to…

Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH (CAC; Germany; www.cac-chem.de) has been awarded a new contract for the planning…

Drax Group plc (www.draxgroup.plc.uk), a power generation business, and Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com), a global…

A contract for the supply of Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) process technology and…

The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Total (Paris, France;…

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) and its partner GS Engineering & Construction (GS), Korea, announced…

Plant Watch New chlor-alkali plant scheduled for Kazakhstan April 23, 2008 — Uhdenora received a…

Because parts made from boron carbide have a higher rigidity and lower weight compared with…

BASF S.E. (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has started operating a new plant for the production of…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that its subsidiary Solvay Chemicals, Inc. is expanding…

BASF Coatings (Münster, Germany; www.basf-coatings.com) has started up its new production site for paints in…

Hägglunds Drives AB (Mellansel, Sweden; www.hagglunds.com) has signed an agreement to acquire the operations of…

Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Finnish subsidiary Foster Wheeler Energia…

Technip (Paris, Framce; www.technip.com) has been awarded by Rominserv and Rompetrol Rafinare (both members of…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced today that work has begun to build a refuse-derived…

PL Propylene LLC, a PetroLogistics company (Houston, Tex.; www.petrologistics.com), announced today the commencement of a…

Only one month after the acquisition of GEA ViEX Inc. Canada (www.geagroup.com), the company has…

Süd-Chemie AG (www.sud-chemic.com) and Linde Group (both Munich, Germany; www.linde.de) have agreed to co-operate on…

Wacker Dymatic, a joint venture of Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dymatic Chemicals…

  Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an area of technology that has received national…

To many, the concept of a "smart plant" involves integrating critical process subsystems and instrumentation…

Accurate temperature measurement is not difficult. It does, however, require you to think about accuracy…

  FIGURE 1. In a typical system for wastewater treatment, the liquid feed is introduced…

Most common acids can be stored in horizontal or vertical ASME-type tanks, as shown in…

  Effective use of capital in the ownership and management of manufacturing assets is critical…

A. Alexander and F. Muzzio, Rutgers University Proper blender selection can improve the mixing of…

Demands in the chemical processing industry to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint are higher…