Cellulosic biomass pretreated with ammonia undergoes structural changes that make it more susceptible to enzymatic…

Anew process to make BTX (benzene, toluene and xylenes) from light cycle oil (LCO), an…

A project aimed at using geothermal heat to power an electricity-producing turbine with supercritical carbon…

Phosgenation scaleup At the end of July, Bayer MaterialScience AG (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayerbms.com) successfully…

A process to greatly enhance the ability of sand to filter heavy metals from water…

Metabolix Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.; www.metabolix.com) has successfully demonstrated and completed research and development for scaleup…

Since the isolation of graphene by the “Scotch tape” method, many researchers have tried to…

Today only a few percent of Canada’s oil sands resource is accessible by traditional surface…

A new yeast strain that could one day substitute for petroleum as a source of…

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo, www.m-kagaku.co.jp, MCC) is developing bio-based technology for producing propylene, butadiene,…

A joint venture (JV) between Vadxx Energy LLC (Akron, Ohio; www.vadxx.com) and Greenstar Recycling (Houston;…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Russian company RusBiotech International  have established the joint…

The hydrogen demand for a new polysilicon facility being built in Taiwan will be covered…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; www.mhi.co.jp) and Mitsubishi Corp. (MC; both Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsubishicorp.com) have…

The Dow Chemical Co. ((Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and K2 Pure Solutions (K2 Pure; Pittsburgh, Calif.;…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed a contract with EuroChem (Moscow, Russia; www.eurochem.ru), to…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Mintal Group Co., a large manufacturer of…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing €12 million to convert 50% of its ethylene…

Envergent Technologies LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.envergenttech.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that liquid biofuel…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) announced today that Jacobs Engineering SA (JESA), the…

Axens' (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) technologies have been selected by Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabi; www.saudiaramco.com)…

PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) is increasing its global precipitated-silica production capacity by more than…

Yesterday, Momentive Performance Materials Inc.’s (Albany, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) Quartz & Ceramics business kicked off an…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its commitment to produce premium synthetic rubbers from…

Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com), providers of the gPROMS high-fidelity process modeling environment…

The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that its subsidiary Babcock &…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), within the framework of a cooperation partnership with Haldor Topsøe A/S…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is building a new plant for manufacturing catalysts for…

Petron Corp. (www.petron.com), the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines, selected Axens…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Gabon Fertilizers Co. a strategic engineering contract for…

BASF Corp. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) today announced that its affiliate, BASF Canada Inc., has joined…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with NLMK Novolipetsk Metallurgisk Kombinat on the delivery…

Sartorius Stedim Biotech (Aubagne, France; www.sartorius-stedim.com) has entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement with GE…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that Fujian Meide Petrochemical…

GEA Westfalia Separator Group (Oelde, Germany; www.westfalia-separator.com) has received another order for the delivery of…

Ineos Technologies (www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene PP process for the manufacture of polypropylene homopolymers,…

In North America, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is doubling its capacities for producing…

  Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) and Suhail Bahwan Group (SBG; Oman)…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Chilean Codelco, the leading copper…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing €15 million in its glass fiber plant in…

BASF Corp. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) has signed a long-term supply agreement with Lynas Corp. (Sydney,…

I was having a “wallflower moment” after Ms. Ruth Sands’ excellent troubleshooting presentation at the…

The chemical process industries (CPI), like many others, increasingly employ non-metallic piping systems for fluid…

Dilute-phase conveying systems generally use centrifugal fans and positive displacement blowers for supplying conveying air…

Condensate pots are commonly used on the condensing sides of some reboilers, such as those…

Among the challenges of effective solid-liquid filtration is the accumulation of solids on the filter…

Properly sized ejector stations can save capital costs and reduce downtime Steam-assisted, gravity-drainage (SAGD) operations…

This article presents equations that allow the user to calculate liquid volume as a function…