A freeze-drying system recently commercialized by ULVAC, Inc. (Chigasaki, Japan; www.ulvac.co.jp) produces spherical particles by…

By immobilizing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) within polymer membrane pores, scientists at the New Jersey Institute…

Spider silk has many unique properties that make it suitable for applications such as coatings…

Ammonia borane’s (AB) capacity to contain and easily release large amounts of hydrogen has made…

Last month, Carpenter Technology Corp. (Wyomissing, Pa.; www.cartech.com) licensed an alumina-forming austenitic stainless-steel alloy developed…

An Australian team including CSIRO (Melbourne; www.csiro.au) and the Uni- versity of Newcastle (www.newcastle.edu.au) has…

Scientists from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST; Tsukuba, Japan; www.aist.go.jp),…

Last month, PJI Contract Pte Ltd. (Singapore; www.pjicon.com.sg) opened a production facility for the manufacture…

A solar cell made of carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber has been demonstrated by researchers from…

After a nine-month field demonstration at BTX, Inc.’s Sleepy well site in Indiana, Pa., Altela…

  Wastewater reuse Aqua-Chem Inc. (Knoxville, Tenn.; www.aqua-chem.com) has developed a filtration-based process for purifying…

The Chilean economy is one of the most dynamic in Latin America. The country has…

Edwards (Crawley, U.K.; www.edwardsvacuum.com) has opened its new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Cheonan, Korea to…

Ashland Inc. (Covington, Ky.; www.ashland.com) and International Specialty Products Inc. (ISP; Wayne, N.J.) today announced…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Ineos Industries Holdings Ltd. (Lyndhurst, U.K.; www.ineos.com) have made…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will build the world’s largest single-train toluene diisocyanate (TDI) plant…

Toyo Engineering India Limited (Toyo-India), an Indian subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan;…

Davy Process Technology (Davy; London; www.davyprotech.com) and Johnson Matthey Catalysts (JM Catalysts; Royston, U.K.; www.jmcatalysts.com)…

UOP LLC (Dews Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell Company (www.honeywell.com), announced today that its technology…

Torresol Energy S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.torresolenergy.com), a joint venture (JV) between Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Goteborg Energi AB…

Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com) and Air Liquide Arabia (www.airliquide.com) have signed a new…

ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has commissioned its first DynaPeaQ energy storage installation for U.K. Power…

Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kobelco.com) has acquired a 44.3% equity share in Wuxi Compressor…

Sasol (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.com) has selected S & B Engineers and Constructors, Ltd. (Houston;…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will invest in a dispersions plant in Durban, South Africa.…

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Karlsruhe, Germany; www.thermoscientific.com) today announced a collaboration with integrated process technology…

The M&G Group (Tortona, Italy; www.gruppomg.com), a major producer of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), has announced…

Honeywell (Morris Township, J.J.; www.honeywell.com) has tripled production capacity for its low-global-warming-potential (GWP) product HFO-1234ze…

Huber Engineered Materials (HEM; Atlanta, Ga.; www.hubermaterials.com) is renaming its Alumina Trihydrate (ATH) business unit…

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced a comprehensive titanium dioxide expansion plan that will add about…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that the Fluor SKM Joint Venture (FAST JV)…

WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded an engineer, procure and construction management…

By way of an internationally attended groundbreaking ceremony, TransGas Development Systems, LLC, has begun construction…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Tech Talk company of Dubai on the…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded an engineering and procurement supply…

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has started up a new air separation unit to supply…

Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.;www.bv.com) has been appointed principal contractor for a program of…

Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) and the French starch and starch-derivatives company Roquette Frères…

SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has acquired Groupe Stavibel, a multidisciplinary consulting engineering firm based…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing 17 million euros in the expansion of its…

Pressure measurement in the chemical process industries (CPI) is crucial to many unit operations, and…

Raise your hand if you ever regretted going with the low cost bidder. Keep your…

Combustion provides heat for many industrial processes and accounts for over 80% of the power…

Many operations involving ideal gases are readily calculated using a basic knowledge of thermodynamics. Non-ideal…

Wastewater streams from petroleum refineries present some of the largest ranges of variation in contaminant…

Gas turbines are widely used throughout the chemical process industries (CPI) — especially in petroleum…

Due to their simplicity of construction, lack of moving parts, ability to operate at a…