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Game Changers
The technologies associated with the Industrial Internet of Things, and…

COVER STORY

Non-Destructive Testing: Managing Corrosion Under Insulation
Corrosion under insulation (CUI) creates a pervasive and versatile challenge…

Using Corrosion as a Process Variable
Monitoring and analyzing historical corrosion data can provide insights not…

IN THE NEWSNEWSFRONTS

Flow Monitoring for Today's Chemical Processes
New technologies provide diagnostics and calibration verification to improve maintenance…

Chemical Recycling Makes Waste Plastic a Resource
With an eye toward a circular economy, technology developers are…

CHEMENTATOR + Show More

New membranes resist biofouling using sunlight
Membranes in large-scale water-treatment processes are often fouled by accumulation…

Gas analysis made easier for high-dust areas
A collaboration between Servomex (Surrey, U.K.; www.servomex.com) and FLO2R (Hadsund,…

A new, more comprehensive electronegativity scale
The electronegativity of atoms is one of the most well-known…

Accelerated electrons unlock sugars from cellulosic biomass
Obtaining sugars from cellulosic biomass cost-effectively is difficult because the…

Selective oxidation of methane makes formaldehyde, without generating CO2
Researchers from South Korea have discovered a high-performance catalyst for…

Chementator Briefs
ANG fueling station Ingevity (North Charleston, S.C.; www.ingevity.com) has completed…

Process intensification for carbon capture could reduce costs
In conventional solvent-based carbon-capture systems, CO2-rich exhaust gas contacts gravity-driven…

Mechanical CO2 sequestration improves algae production
A new, mechanical method for sequestration of carbon dioxide into…

A single process to handle hydraulic fracturing produced water and offgases
Two major concerns in hydraulic fracturing operations are finding efficient…

BUSINESS NEWS

Plant Watch: March 2019
Plant Watch Sasol begins operating LLDPE unit at Lake Charles…

TECHNICAL & PRACTICALFEATURE REPORT

Unified Operational Environment Improves Process Safety
A unified gateway station and related components increase availability to…

The Value of Safety Instrumented Systems
A safety instrumented system (SIS) is important to ensure the…

FACTS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Facts at your Fingertips: Hygienic Process Equipment Fabrication
In hygienic process operations, proper system construction and fabrication has…

TECHNOLOGY PROFILE

Technology Profile: Calcium Carbide Production from Limestone
This column is based on “Calcium Carbide Production from Limestone…

SOLIDS PROCESSING

Design and Calculation Methods for Uniflow Cyclones
Uniflow cyclones can be effective solid-gas separation equipment when space…

EQUIPMENT & SERVICESFOCUS

Focus on Air Pollution Control
These ceramic filters have catalysts built-in The BisCat filter system…

NEW PRODUCTS + Show More

A three-in-one biogas-measurement device
The MGP261 (photo) is said to be the world’s first…

This new heat exchanger makes use of exhaust gases
The new Exhaust Gas Heat Exchanger (EGHE; photo) transfers heat…

These versatile wastewater samplers are portable
The AQUA Series of portable wastewater samplers (photo) consists of…

This mixer is designed for hot melts and viscous dispersions
The Model CDA-800 multi-shaft mixer (photo) has a special triple-shaft…

Use this mobile app to optimize penetration-seal selection
This company has launched a new mobile application (app) to…

Monitor CFATS compliance with this new software module
This company’s Compliance Manager software module aids chemical processors in…

These compressors are designed to reduce energy use
The new SM 7.5, SM 10, SM 15, and SFC…

Simplify screen changing for separator systems
The Electro-Lift system (photo) assists in expediting change times for…

SHOW PREVIEWS

Show Preview-Interphex 2019
Interphex 2019 will take place April 2–4 at the Jacob…

Show Preview-Powtech 2019
Powtech 2019 (www.powtech.de) takes place from April 9–11 at the…

Highlights Non-Destructive Testing: Managing Corrosion Under Insulation Chemical Engineering Bookshelf: CPI Booklist for March 2019 Facts at your Fingertips: Hygienic Process Equipment Fabrication The 2019 Kirkpatrick Award: Nominations are now open The Value of Safety Instrumented Systems

May 2010

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IN THE NEWSCHEMENTATOR + Show More

Destroy HFCs and recover CaF2 with this process
A process that destroys hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and recovers high-purity calcium…

Distillation-tray downcomer design improves mass transfer efficiency
A new approach to the design of the downcomer portion…

Surface-structured RO membrane couples fouling resistance with flux
Engineers at the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA; www.ucla.edu) have…

Improving enzyme performance for making chemicals
By genetically modifying E. coli — introducing four enzymatic genes…

These microfluidic sensors can be made with a sewing machine
A low-cost method for fabricating microfluidic diagnostics devices using cotton,…

May Chementator briefs
A new Cl2 process Oxygen-depolarized cathodes (ODCs) will be…

This new process makes biogasoline from carbohydrates
In late March, the world’s first demonstration plant for converting…

A process that makes ‘green jet fuel’ is slated for commercialization
Honeywells UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) has developed a…

Bioethanol as a feedstock for ‘green’ polymers
Efforts to make a completely sustainable route to polymers based…

Revamped hydrotreater co-processes light gas oil and tall oil derivative to produce ULSD
Co-processing of biomass-derived feed with petroleum feed for the production…

BUSINESS NEWS + Show More

Cellulosic biofuel demonstration in China
Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark: www.novozymes.com), COFCO Ltd. (www.cofco.com/en) and Sinopec Corp. (both…

Milestones in distributed production of biofuels
A biomass-to-liquids (BTL) demonstration plant jointly operated by the Oxford…

Flexible carbon capture CFB technology moves closer to commercialization
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) has signed, together with…

Startup of large biomass CFB in Finland
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today the successful…

$1.075 billion contract for construction of Borouge 3 ethane cracker in Abu Dhabi signed
Borouge (Abu Dhabi in the UAE; www. borouge.com), a joint-venture…

Borouge awards three EPC contracts for Borouge 3 expansion project
Borouge, a joint-venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.…

Laos instant-coffee plant for GEA Niro
GEA Niro (Soeborg, Denmark; www.niro.com) has recently won a contract…

Fluor awarded contracts by Ma'aden-Alcoa JV
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has won a series of contracts…

Lanxess invests $10 million in Gevo
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com), the world’s largest producer of…

Cognis opens new APG facility in China
Cognis GmbH (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com) today officially opened a new state-of-the-art…

Sonara refinery upgrade in Cameroon
Cegelec (Paris, France; www.cegelec.com), an international group providing technological services…

Alstom invests in BrightSource Energy
Alstom (Paris, France; www.alstom.com) says it will complement its strong portfolio…

Honeywell and DuPont form JV to manufacture new refrigerant
Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) and DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) today…

Outotec to deliver a copper plant in Chile
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Minera Lumina Copper…

Toyo wins urea contract from Cuba
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded…

Construction starts on first Lanxess plant in Russia
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is today officially starting work…

Holly selects GTC Technology’s BenZap technology
GTC Technology US, LLC (Houston; www.gtctech.com) was selected by Holly…

Outotec to deliver flotation technology for First Quantum Minerals
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with the First Quantum…

Messer commissions new CO2 recovery plant
Messer Group GmbH (Sulzbach/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has commissioned a new…

EdeniQ & Logos seek DOE integrated bio-refinery funding
EdeniQ, Inc. (Visalia, Calif,; www.edeniq.com) and Logos Technologies, Inc. (Arlington,…

Lonza selects Nansha for new vitamin B3 plant
Lonza Group Ltd. (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonzagroup.com) has selected Nansha, its leading…

Buhler & Sigma-Aldrich ink nanoparticles agreement
The Buhler Group (Uzwil, Switzerland; www.buhlergroup.com) and Sigma-Aldrich (www.sigma-aldrich.com) have signed…

First Meteor EO/EG process facility starts up in China
Sinopec-SABIC (Tianjin) Petrochemical Co., Ltd (SSTPC), a joint venture between…

Thai Paraxylene to license ExxonMobil’s PxMax technology
ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC (EMCTL) and ExxonMobil Catalyst Technologies…

Outotec Kaldo furnace technology for Boliden
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with…

Celanese acquires LCP and PCT product lines from DuPont Performance Polymers
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) today announced that its Advanced…

Lanxess and TSRC to create rubber JV in China
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) and TSRC Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan www.tsrc.com.tw)…

Topsøe signs contract with Pemex
Pemex Refinacion (Pemex-Refining; Mexico; www.ref.pemex.com) and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby,…

Solvay commissions new NaHCO3 plant in U.S.
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that its American affiliate…

DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products expanding Bio-PDO production
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, LLC (Loudon, Tenn), a…

TECHNICAL & PRACTICAL

Focus on Pumps
Neptune Chemical Pump This self-priming pump is available for water…

Spiral Plate Heat Exchangers: Sizing Units for Cooling Non-Newtonian Slurries
Gooch Thermal Systems Spiral plate heat exchangers are ideal for…

Wireless Communication in Hazardous Areas
Wireless communications have great potential in the chemical process industries…

Agglomeration Technology: Equipment Selection
A virtually endless number of process options are available for…

FACTS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Burner Operating Characteristics
Burners are critical for the successful operation of industrial furnaces.…

Mettler Toledo

Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy in Critical Applications

Accurate and continuous O2 determination plays a pivotal role in achieving safety and process reliability in a wide range of manufacturing processes. Harsh process conditions and maintenance requirements of sampling and conditioning systems can present…

Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy in Critical Applications

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