Catalyst recycling A new process for selectively dissolving either palladium or gold from mixed-metal catalyst…

A green hydrometallurgical process for recovering gold from ore, developed by Haber, Inc. (Arlington, Mass.;…

Professor Shu Kobayashi, University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan; www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp), has discovered that bimetallic nanoclusters can…

A miniaturized electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrometer developed by Active Spectrum Inc. (Foster City, Calif.;…

A team of engineers from the Center for Energy Technology, University of Adelaide (South Australia;…

Researchers from the Department of Environmental and Applied Chemical Engineering, Gangneung-Wonju National University (Gangneung, South…

Next spring, Exelus, Inc. (Livingston, N.J.; www.exelusinc.com) plans to pilot a new process that converts…

At last month’s Sulfur 2010 Conference (November 1–4; Prague, Czech Republic), Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby,…

A demonstration plant for a biological process that produces ethanol and 2,3 butanediol (2,3-BD) from…

A nanotechnology-based, bottom-up approach to synthesizing catalysts for converting natural gas to ethylene could enable…

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte.…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotech.com) and Hatch Ltd. (Mississauga, Ont., Canada; www.hatch.ca), an unincorporated joint…

KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has acquired Roberts & Schaefer Co, (Chicago, Ill.), a subsidiary of…

Aker Solutions (www.akersolutions.com) has entered into a share purchase agreement (SPA) whereby it has agreed…

SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal; Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has now received the go-ahead for the implementation of the…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) is cutting emissions from gold ore…

Styron (www.styron.com) today announced that the company will expand its SSBR (solution styrene butadiene rubber)…

Following the successful operation of a biomass-to-liquids (BTL) demonstration plant at the biomass gasification facility…

Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has successfully completed the first phase of a three-stage capacity…

Blast furnace 2 at the ThyssenKrupp CSA steel mill in Santa Cruz/Rio de Janeiro state…

JGC Corp. (Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) today announced that it will be selling its 44.94% share interest in…

Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC has awarded Aker Solutions (www.akersolutions.com) the front-end engineering and…

Haldor Topsøe S/A (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has entered into an agreement with BASF’s Catalysts division…

On the eve of the 10th anniversary of BASF-YPC, BASF and Sinopec have signed a…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to expand its existing superabsorbent polymer production capacities at…

Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A.…

At yesterday’s meeting in Vienna, the Borealis (www.borealisgroup.com) supervisory board approved a €17-million investment to…

Bechtel Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) will provide design and project management support services for…

The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) plans to build a propylene glycol (PG) plant…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sibur (Moscow;…

Foster Wheeler AG, (Zug, Switzerland,; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) and Dutch company Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com)…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is studying the construction of an epichlorohydrin production plant in…

Dynasol, a subsidiary of Repsol (www.repsol.com) and the Kuo Group, has signed an agreement with…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Socar & Turcas Rafineri A.S. (Stras; www.socarturcas.com.tr),…

Yule Catto & Co. plc (Harlow, U.K.; www.yulecatto.com) has agreed to acquire PolymerLatex GmbH (Marl,…

Foster Wheeler AG (FWC; Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) intends to construct a new production plant for isophorone…

The Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) it has been selected by GAIL (India)…

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) will build a new and fully integrated polysilicon production…

Reciprocating compressors — the most commonly used type of compressor throughout the chemical process industries…

During the first three days of last month’s AIChE Annual Meeting (November 7–12; Salt Lake…

To solve the task of solid-liquid (S-L) separation in the chemical process industries (CPI), a…

Management of process plants requires the understanding and application of the fundamental tenets of safe…

Chemicals in production and laboratory environments alike have three distinct lifecycle phases: the first is…