Bio bisabolene Through genetic engineering of microbes, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley, Calif.;…

Last month at the Brau Beviale 2011 Exhibition (November 9–11; Nuremberg, Germany), Alfa Laval AB…

A catalyst for making amides from alcohols and amines under aerobic conditions has been developed…

Using an array of lamps inside a highly reflective chamber, the optical cavity furnace (OCF)…

Last month at the Namur Annual General Meeting in Bad Neuenbahr, Germany, the first working…

Using gene recombination technology, Toyota Motor Corp. (TMC; Toyota City, Japan: www2.toyota.co.jp/en) has developed a…

In combustion, the ratio of fuel to air is key to efficiency, emissions control and…

An improved sulfuric-acid alkylation process that reduces acid consumption by up to 50% from that…

Steam traps are designed to allow condensate, but not steam, to escape from a steam…

A novel mesh for oil-water separation with opposite wettability to traditional materials has been developed…

Hydrofoil turbines mounted inside gravity-fed water-effluent conduits can generate significant electrical power without impeding flow,…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it) for the…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) has delivered a large-capacity energy-storage system employing…

SNC-Lavalin, Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by MacKay Operating Corp. to…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by First Global Co. to revamp the…

Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has signed a contract with the Russian company JSC…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) says its Chemetics unit in Pickering, Ontario, Canada…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract from Honeywell to…

With the largest of its chemical investments to date, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com)…

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a long-term contract with Shaanxi Future Energy…

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says it has brought a large-scale, onsite ammonia plant…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Uzbekistan GTL LLC an extension of the existing…

Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has won the contract for a diesel hydrotreating unit…

BASF Corp. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) will be investing $20 million over the next 18 months…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract to provide engineering and…

The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to build and operate…

Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry of the State of Qatar, and…

Toyo Engineering Canada Ltd. (Toyo-Canada)*, a Canadian subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan;…

Plant Watch Oxea to build its first production plant in China October 29, 2011 —…

Georg Fischer AG (Shaffhausen, Switzerland; www.georgfischer.com) announced today that it has agreed to acquire Harvel…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) strengthens its portfolio of energy and environmental technologies by acquiring…

The interior surfaces of your storage tanks are constantly at risk. You undoubtedly walk past…

The solubility of water in hydrocarbons contained in crude oil is very important. This importance…

Today’s plant turnarounds bear little resemblance to those of the past: Last-minute preparations and procurements…

Single-fluid heat-transfer systems that both heat and cool a process require special considerations for trouble-free…