The world’s first commercial plant to produce liquid fuels by direct coal liquefaction is now…

An innovation that improves the steelmaking efficiency of an electric arc furnace (EAF) by adding…

Algae offer a ubiquitous, renewable source of oil for fuels and various chemical products (…

Compressing carbon dioxide captured from power plants to 1,500–2,200 psia for pipeline transmission or underground…

  A process that produces hydrogen-enriched natural gas, with carbon black as a byproduct, is…

Hajime Kawanami and colleagues at the AIST Tohoku Collaboration Center, Research Center for Compact Chemical…

Hiroshi Abe and colleagues at Biochemical Group of Research Institute for Innovation in Sustainable Chemistry,…

At Achema last month (May 11–15; Frankfurt, Germany), Sulzer Chemtech AG (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzerchemtech.com) launched…

The world’s first demonstration plant combining underground coal gasification and gas-to-liquids (GTL) technologies in the…

Mercury sorbent A palladium-on-alumina sorbent, designed to remove mercury from synthesis gas in coal-gasification plants,…

Ningxia Hanas Natural Gas Company Ltd  has awarded Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) a lump sum…

Due to the continuing global economic crisis, specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com)…

Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO; Delft,…

GEA Ibérica, a Spanish subsidiary of GEA Group Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received an order…

Alstom (Paris, France; www.alstom.com) has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with StatoilHydro…

Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) announces the start-up of an additional gas phase reactor at…

Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical LLC (NSRP) has awarded Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) the basic…

High-performance elastomer seals specialist, Precision Polymer Engineering, Ltd. (PPE; Blackburn, U.K.; www.prepol.com) has completed a…

Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) and the Danish Technological Institute (www.dti.dk) have received 1-million…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will shut down the Styropor plant (EPS, expandable polystyrene) at…

Telvent (Madrid, Spain; www.telvent.com) announced it is partnering with Longwatch, Inc. (Norwood, Mass.; www.longwatch.com) to…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and F.A.R. Fabbrica Adesivi Resine S.p.A (F.A.R.; Cologno Monzese, Italy;www.gruppofar.it/far/eng/index.htm),…

Dresser Masoneilan (Houston, Tex.; www.dresser.com) was chosen by Saipem SpA (Milan, Italy) to supply control…

Polaris (Quimper, France; www.polaris.fr). global leading expert in nutritional lipids, has selected Seventure (Paris; www.seventure.fr)…

Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) has been awarded a lump-sum turnkey contract by Qatar Petrochemical…

Specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is underpinning its long-term growth strategy in…

Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG in (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com) and Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (ISSYS; Ann Arbor,…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels; www.solvay.com) announced today that Solvay Indupa successfully concluded its three-year, $150-million investment…

The Catalysts division of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will provide a total of 2,000…

Effective June 1, the Hoerbiger Group (Zug, Switzerland, www.hoerbiger.com) acquired the compressor business of Gala…

Aker Solutions ASA (www.akersolutions.com) has received its engineering license from the Chinese government authorities, granting…

Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands; www.dsm.com), has acquired privately held Biopract GmbH (Berlin, Germany). The…

ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has completed delivery and commissioning of the 1-MW Totana photovoltaic (PV)…

Plant Watch New Linde plant in Illinois to supply hydrogen for diesel production May 19,…