A research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, N.M.; www.lanl.gov) has developed a…

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA; Ibaraki, www.jaea.go.jp) has enhanced the efficiency of a solvent-extraction process…

A system that utilizes existing biological wastewater-treatment facilities for destruction of biodegradable volatile organic compounds…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, www.mhi.co.jp) says it has established technology to produce bioethanol…

A novel method for treating industrial liquid waste employs supercritical water infused with oxygen to…

A team from CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering (Melbourne, Australia; www.csiro.au) has developed a new…

Last month, construction was completed on the world’s first commercial plant to produce a next-generation…

A team led by Rice University (Houston; www.rice.edu) researcher Michael Deem has assembled a database…

  Underground pipes A hand-held device for locating buried pipe will be commercialized by Sensit…

Scaleup is set for two technologies that facilitate the capture of carbon dioxide from fluegas…

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL; Livermore, Calif.; www.llnl.gov) have created a nanocrystalline diamond…

Along with an innovative elastomeric compound, scientists at Federal Mogul Corp. (Southfield, Mich; www.federalmogul.com) have…

AMEC Plc. (London, U.K.; www.amec.com) has been appointed by BASF Polyurethane (Chongqing) Co. and Chongqing…

Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum (Group) Co. (Yanchang Petroleum Group) and KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) have signed…

Ube Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp says it will launch commercial production of proprietary Artificial…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has launched a project to build a specialty polymers production…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell  company, has been selected by the Abu…

Novo Nordisk A/S Bagsværd, Denmark; www.novonordisk.com) is investing close to 1 billion Danish kroner (€134…

AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is investing €140 million to convert its chlorine plant in…

South Refineries Co. (SRC), a subsidiary of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, awarded Axens (Rueil-Malmaison,…

Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemical Co. and Davy Process Technology (Davy; London, U.K.; www.davyprotech.com),  a Johnson…

Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) says it will accelerate its original schedule and now expects…

The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has closed a long-term deal to…

The Supervisory Board of Akzo Nobel N.V. (AkzoNobel; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has announced that…

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it) announces that its main operating company Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan,…

JGC Plant Solutions and JGC Indonesia, both wholly-owned subsidiaries of JGC Group (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp),…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) announced today the successful launch of operations…

Bechtel Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) has been selected by the National Development and Innovation…

A grassroots diesel-hydrotreater unit (Prime-D), licensed by Axens Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net), was successfully put into…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has concluded an agreement with the Chinese soda ash producer…

Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) is investing CHF10 million to expand its biopharmaceutical development services platform…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from DuPont Titanium Technologies…

Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. (Bolingbrook, Ill.; www.elevance.com) has acquired the Delta BioFuels facility in Adams…

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract for a 100,000-ton/yr…

SKC Co. (Seoul, Korea) and Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH (Berlin, Germany; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) have signed a contract…

Westec Environmental Solutions, LLC (WES; Chicago, Ill.; www.wes-worldwide.com) announced today that Spanish utility company Iberdrola,…

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) is expanding its hydrogen capacity in Texas and Louisiana and…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has acquired a majority ownership of Consulting Engineering…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and its partner Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC; www.tn-sanso.co.jp/en) today…

The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) confirmed today that construction of its new manufacturing…

KBR (Houston; www.hbr.com) has been selected to execute engineering design services for three coal-seam gas…

A common practice in the chemical process industries (CPI) is to implement so-called value- maximization…

The topic of fouling in heat exchangers has been of increasing interest in recent years,…

One of the most important measurements in the chemical process industries (CPI) is rate of…

There was a time, not long ago, when most groups responsible for industrial control systems…

Expect more in selection and scaleup, prediction of energy consumption and reliability Very seldom is…