The Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI, www.itri.org.tw) is conducting a 10-m3/d pilot-plant project to…

This Fall, Vantec Co. (Tochigi Prefecture, Japan; www.vantec-jp.com) plans to commercialize a water electrolyzer that…

Nippon Steel Corp. (Tokyo; www.nsc.co.jp) and Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Kobe, Japan; www.kobelco.com) plan to begin…

Professor Keiichi Tomishige and colleagues at Tohoku University (Sendai City, Japan; www.che.tohoku.ac.jp/~erec/) have developed a…

Liquid copper is employed to gasify wastes in a process being developed by Ze-gen (Boston,…

Last month, RWE Power (Cologne, Germany; www.rwe.com) and Linde-KCA-Dresden GmbH (www.linde-kca.com), a subsidiary of The Linde…

A novel catalyst designed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National…

New technology for fabricating nanoscale polymer threads boosts yields and improves control compared to conventional…

Last month, Great River Energy (Maple Grove, Minn.; www.greatriverenergy.com) dedicated its patented DryFining coal enhancement…

  Torrefaction of biomass Last month, the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands (ECN; Petten;…

JGC Corp. (Yokohama; www.jgc.co.jp), INPEX Corp. (Tokyo, both Japan; www.inpex.co.jp) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany;…

Xebec Adsorption Inc. (Xebec; Montreal, Canada; www.xebecinc.com) has signed a significant contract to build a complete…

The Separex membrane system of UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has…

Biffa Group (www.biffa.com) has announced a strategic alliance with M+W Group’s (Stuttgart, Germany; www.mwgroup.net) U.K.…

Parsons (Pasadena, Calif.; www.parsons.com) has signed a strategic alliance agreement with SCFI (Super Critical Fluids International)…

Tenaska (www.tenaska.com) has chosen Fluor Corp.'s (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) Econamine FG Plus carbon-capture technology for…

KSB AG (Frankenthal, Germany; www.ksb.com) has acquired a majority interest in Italco/REEL s.r.l. (Vicenza, Italy;…

MAN Diesel & Turbo SE (Augsburg; www.mandieselturbo.com) and MTU Aero Engines GmbH (Munich, both Germany;…

The Huafon Group — the biggest producer of polyurethanes in China — has chosen Uhde…

The HART Communication Foundation (Austin, Tex.; www.hartcomm.org) is pleased to announce that the European Committee…

IDEX Corp. (Northbrook, Ill.; www.idexcorp.com) has acquired OBL, S.r.l. (Milan, Italy; www.obl.it), a leading provider of…

KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been appointed to an alliance that will design and build…

Xebec Adsorption Inc. (Xebec; Montreal, Canada; www.xebecinc.com), a provider of biogas-upgrading, natural-gas and hydrogen-purification solutions…

Sulzer Metco AG (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzermetco.com) has acquired the DLC activities of Bekaert (Kortrijk, Belgium;…

Novasep (Pompey, France; www.novasep.com), a leading supplier of manufacturing solutions to the life science industries,…

Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com) has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract…

Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com), is planning to design, install, and operate a pilot plant…

Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Energy, Inc., (B&W NE; Lynchburg, Va.) and Bechtel Power Corp. (San…

AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has agreed to acquire the worldwide assets of Swedish-based company Lindgens…

Catalytic Distillation Technologies (CDTech; Pasedena, Tex.; www.cdtech.com) has been awarded a contract by OAO UNPZ Ufa…

Bayer Technology Services GmbH (BTS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayertechnology.com) and the Excellence Cluster for the Engineering…

Applied Analytics, Inc. (AAI; Concord, Mass.; www.a-a-inc.com) and Aber Ahmed Equipment Est. (Sharjah, United Arab…

Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) is investing approximately EUR 60 million in the production of…

Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is reorganizing its carbon black activities. On July 1, Evonik…

Fuel Tech, Inc. (Warrenville, Ill.; www.ftek.com) has received a number of air-pollution-control (APC) orders valued at…

GEA PHE Systems (Sarstedt, Germany; www.gea-phe.com), part of the GEA Heat Exchangers Segment, received an…

Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has won a contract for the second hydrogen-generation plant…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen,Germany; www.evonik.com) and Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., Bolingbrook, Ill.; www.elevance.com) have entered…

Borouge (Abu Dhabi, UAE; wwwborouge.com), a joint-venture (JV) between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.…

CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.; www.cleantechbiofuels.net), an early stage provider of cellulosic biomass feedstock…

In 1952, 37 companies established Fractionation Research, Inc. (FRI). Most of those original members are…

Pinch analysis emerged as a systematic design tool during the energy crisis of the late…

Acoustic coupling in industrial furnaces is an issue that appears to have become more prevalent…

Relief systems are the last line of defense for chemical process facilities. Verifying their capability…

Storage of bulk materials in hoppers, bins and silos is ubiquitous in the chemical process…