Metabolix, Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.; www.metabolix.com) has demonstrated, in recently completed greenhouse trials, that switchgrass plants…

BHR Biofuels, a subsidiary of BHR Group (Cranfield, U.K., www.bhrgroup.co.uk), has installed and demonstrated two…

Rentech, Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.; www.rentechinc.com) has produced its first run of jet fuel from…

Conventional cooling systems rely on the properties of gases to cool, but common coolants are…

A new metal carbide F-T catalyst has been developed by Oxford Catalysts Limited (Oxford, U.K.,…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen; www.evonik.com) and SolarWorld AG (Bonn, both Germany; www.solarworld.de) have opened a…

Vogelbusch GmbH (Vienna, Austria; www.vogelbusch.com) has developed a patent-pending distributor system that it claims makes…

Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS GmbH (EMB), a subsidiary of Bayer Technology Services GmbH (BTS; Leverkusen, Germany;…

A microbial process originally designed to remediate soils contaminated with hydrocarbons has accelerated the recovery…

Consol Energy Inc. (Pittsburgh, Penn.; www.consolenergy.com), the nation’s largest producer of bituminous coal, and Synthesis…

Controlling particle size is critical in alumina processing, especially when alumina crystals are precipitated from…

Verenium Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.; www.verenium.com) and BP p.l.c. (London; www.bp.com) have formed a partnership to…

The Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company, also known as Takreer, has selected UOP (Des Plaines,…

Vertellus Specialties Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind.) plans to expand its vitamin B3 manufacturing capacity in Nantong,…

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has commissioned two new production facilities for silicone  polymers…

Choren Industries GmbH (Freiberg, Germany; www.choren.com) and Norske Skog have entered into an agreement for…

The high prices of naphtha (crude petroleum) as a feedstock for steam crackers are prompting…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today the inauguration of its new world-class Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)…

Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) and the Chinese listed Chengxing Group signed an agreement with…

Astech Projects (Runcorn, U.K.; www.astechprojects.co.uk) has announced the success of its new automation maintenance service,…

Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has signed a contract with ZAO East Siberian Gas…

Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com) announced that its South African subsidiary, Foster Wheeler South…

Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands; www.dsm.com) today announces that the second polymerization plant for Stanyl…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is to expand its site in Antwerp with capital expenditures…

Today, Repsol's (Madrid, Spain; www.repsolypf.com) CEO, Antonio Brufau, Portugal’s Prime Minister, and Minister of Economy…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has won an order from Steel Authority of India Ltd…

Algae constitutes roughly half of the Earth’s photosynthetic activity and undergirds the food chain for…

Plant Watch Emerson wins contract to automate water-treatment-chemicals plant in China August 20, 2008 —…

Fluorite, the natural mineral of calcium fluoride, is a key feedstock for making fluorochemicals. In…

Last month, AE Biofuels (Cupertino, Calif.; www.aebiofuels.com) opened an integrated cellulose-and-starch ethanol demonstration facility in…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to acquire Ciba Holding AG (Basel, Switzerland), a leading…

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com), through Lummus Technology, has been awarded contracts with an overall…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that its Thai affiliate Vinythai has increased its…

The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has entered into a joint venture (JV) with Sinopec…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has signed a contract for the sale of its…

SAFC Pharma, a focus area within SAFC (www.safcpharma.com), a member of the Sigma-Aldrich Group (St.…

The Linde Engineering Division (Pullach, Germany; www.linde) announced that on-spec ethylene production of the Tasnee…

Process engineers understand how to harness the power of closed-loop multi-variable control in their plants.…

The need to conserve water is becoming a common concern throughout the world. Whether this…

Today, companies in the chemical process industries (CPI) are faced with increased operating expenses, reductions…

Each compressed air system is typically composed of one or more compressors with a power…

There are many criteria that the engineer considers when optimizing: maximization of product yield or…