Flexible aerogels Researchers at the NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio; www.nasa.gov) have developed…

A process developed by Lehigh Technologies (Lehigh; Tucker, Ga.; www.lehightechnologies.com) for embrittling and milling rubber…

Air Fuel Synthesis Ltd. (AFS; Darlington, U.K.; www.airfuelsynthesis.com) has recently demonstrated a process for producing…

Last month marked the completion of the three-year, €3.6-million E.U.-funded research project, Self-assembled Polymer Membranes…

Kazuaki Ishihara and his group at Nagoya University (Japan; www.ishihara-lab.net) have established a new, environment…

A challenge in the development of polymer-electrolyte membrane fuel cells is the durability and electrocatalytic…

Last month, Lewa GmbH (Leonberg, Germany; www.lewa.de) and Burckhardt Compression AG (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.burckhardtcompression.com) signed…

A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kaist; Daejeon, South Korea:…

Professor Kenichoro Itami and his group at Nagoya University (synth.chem. nagoya-u.ac.jp) have synthesized a cage-type…

Several drug delivery systems have been studied involving the encapsulation of molecules in a suitable…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Paradeep Phosphates Ltd.…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) and Southern Company subsidiary, Southern Generation Technologies, today announced a cooperation agreement…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) the…

Evonik Industries AG’s (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) endeavor to build a new production facility for cosmetics…

The Dow Chemical Company (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) says that it plans to build a…

Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda-corp.com/en) has been awarded a licensing and engineering contract by Foster…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co.…

Praxair China (Shanghai; www.praxair.cn) has signed a long-term contract with Oxiranchem Yangzhou Co. to supply…

The first solar tower power plant in North Africa will be built in Algeria. The…

Samsung Engineering Co.(Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) was formally awarded the Yanbu petroleum-refinery expansion project from Luberef…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) says it is reinforcing its leadership on the growing world…

Praxair Peru (www.praxair.com.pe), a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), has started up a…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an initial contract by Baikal Mining Co. (as…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) has been awarded by Statoil, an international…

CB&I's (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by Huating Coal…

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) says that its wholly-owned Saudi Arabian subsidiary, JGC Gulf International…

Hillenbrand, Inc. (Batesville, Ind.; www.hillenbrand.com) has agreed to acquire the Coperion Group (Stuttgart, Germany; www.coperion.com)…

Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) is to build a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant for its…

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) , a world leader in Specialty Chemicals, today announced to expand…

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) say that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and…

OCI Construction Group has selected ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) for an engineering…

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says that Indura, its South American joint venture, has…

Novasep (Pompey, France; www.novasep.com) announces today an investment of €30 million to build in Europe…

SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by the Chuquicamata Division…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Shell selected the firm as its engineering,…

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded contracts by Occidental Chemical Corp. for the…

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) is opening a second production unit for the successful flame retardant…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Purac (Diemen, The Netherlands), a subsidiary of CSM (www.csmglobal.com),…

Braskem Idesa S.A.P.I. awarded to a joint venture (JV) formed by Odebrecht (40%), Technip (40%)…

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a urea synthesis and granulation…

This article covers permitting and directly related design issues associated with thermal processes used for…

Vacuum conditions for many unit operations — including distillation, evaporation, drying, crystallization, filtration and more…

Inorganic acids play a major role in the chemical process industries (CPI). They are used…

Small chemical reactors offer a number of benefits compared to large reactors, such as better…

Blending and segregation are two opposite and competing processes in solids handling that ideally fit…