Heat Transfer Fluids: Maintaining the System
Organic-based thermal fluids provide relatively trouble-free service for significant periods of time. However, there comes…
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Chementator: A ‘smart’ fertilizer
Last month, Uralchem OJSC (Moscow, Russia; www.uralchem.com) started production of a new fertilizer, called ASN…
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New MMA process Last month, the world’s first plant to produce methyl methacrylate (MMA) using…
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Siemens installs photovoltaic plant
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) has installed a turnkey photovoltaic (PV) plant on the roof…
Rahu and OMG ink global coatings and composites agreement
OM Group, Inc. (OMG; Cleveland, Ohio; www.omgi.com) and Rahu Catalytics Ltd. (Nottingham, U.K.; www.rahucat.com) have…
Baytubes now also available in the U.S.
Bayer MaterialScience (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) has received regulatory approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection…
BASF to increase capacity of Glissopal
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is increasing its production of low molecular weight, highly reactive…
Uhde wins several contracts for aromatics plants
Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) has been awarded a contract by Risun Chemical Co. of…
Foster Wheeler awarded EPCM contracts for Thailand facility
Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com) announced today that its subsidiary Foster Wheeler International Corp.…
Evonik to produce catalysts in China next year
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com), has started building a catalyst manufacturing plant, for producing…
Lurgi to build an acrylic-acid plant in China
Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com) a company of Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France), today announced…
Evonik & Daimler: Strategic alliance for Li-ion batteries
Evonik Industries AG (Essen; www.evonik.com) and Daimler AG (Stuttgart, both Germany; www.daimler.com) are developing the…
Evonik Industries builds new polymerization unit for methacrylic resins in China
The expansion of worldwide production capacity for thermoplastic methacrylic resins at Evonik Industries AG (Essen,…
Ineos Technologies wins first South-American polyolefins license agreement
Ineos Technologies Ltd. (Jersey, U.K.; www.ineostechnologies.com) has signed two Ineos polyethylene (PE) technology licenses with…
KBR awarded two contracts from Sasol Technology
KBR (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) has been awarded two contracts by Sasol Technology (Pty) Ltd., to…
Siemens to supply steam turbine for solar thermal power plant in California
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) has been awarded an order to supply the largest ever…
Essent & Shell take step toward low-CO2 power plant
Arnhem/The Hague, 8 December 2008, Essent Business Development B.V. (Essent) and Shell Gas & Power…
Messer delivers helium for Siemens
In the coming year, Messer Group GmbH (Sulzbach, Germany; www.messergroup.com) will be delivering helium to…
Alstom/PGE Elektrownia Belchatow plan Polish CCS project
Alstom (www.power.alstom.com) and PGE Elektrownia Belchatow S.A. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for…
GEA technology for the Middle East
The Mechanical Separation Division of GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received two major…
Economic Indicators: Business News
Plant Watch Wacker and Dow Corning start production at integrated silicone site November 14, 2008…
Chementator: Significantly slash investment costs with this oxidation reactor
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (Tokyo; www.m-kagaku.co.jp/index_en.htm) has developed a plate-in-frame reactor for performing oxidation reactions, such…
Chementator: Nanocomposite
AkzoNobel Polymer Chemicals LLC (Chigago, Ill.; www.akzonobel.com/polymer) has launched Perkalite, a new range of synthetic,…
Chementator: New resin technology can reduce the weight of car parts
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.co.jp) has developed a new high-cycle molding resin that has…
Technical & Practical
Cover Story Part 1: Heat Flux And Film Temperature In Fired, Thermal-Fluid Heaters
In a fired thermal fluid heater, a thermal fluid is heated by the metal surfaces…
Bearing Housing Protector Seals for Gearboxes
Lubricant contamination in gearbox bearing housings can substantially reduce gear life. In critical applications, dual-face,…
Engineering Practice: Functions for Easier Curve Fitting
Engineers often need to fit experimental data to an empirical relationship for extrapolation or modeling…
Engineering Practice: Estimating Thermal Conductivity of Hydrocarbons
The thermal conductivity of hydrocarbons is an essential parameter that needs to be known when…
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Fluid Flow
Laminar Pipe Flow For steady flow in a pipe (whether laminar or turbulent), a momentum…