Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has initiated its third joint research and development (R&D) project with the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering of Tianjin University (China; www.tju.edu.cn/english) on advanced chemical-engineering sciences. This project, which focuses on distillation and…
The Air Liquide Group (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed long-term agreement with Severstal, Russia’s leading steel producer. Air Liquide will supply oxygen, nitrogen and argon to Severstal’s new steel plant in Balakovo, located in the region of Saratov (Volga Federal…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has acquired the Vertical Pressure Filter (VPF) technology and its intellectual property rights from Australian Process Technology Pty Ltd (North Fremantle, Australia), a filters supplier for the alumina refining industry. The parties have agreed not…
Bechtel (Frederick, Md.; www.bechtel.com), SolFocus, Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.; www.solfocus.com) and developer Sol Orchard announced today that a 1-MW high concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) power plant was completed for Nichols Farms, a pistachio farm in Hanford, Calif. The solar plant, which…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has started up a new facility to produce high-purity isobutene at its site in Antwerp (Belgium). The new plant, which involved investment of tens of millions euros, can produce up to 110,000 metric tons…
BASF to explore new production investment in Brazil March 10, 2011 — BASF is exploring opportunities for a new investment in Brazil for the production of acrylic acid, butyl acrylate and superabsorbent polymers (SAP). The feasibility study will be completed…
Traditionally, most students have learned about chemical reactions in laboratories using test tubes, beakers and flasks. Those who have gone on to discover and develop new products have typically done so using these batchwise techniques. This mind-set has continued through…
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that its Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S (B&W Vølund), has been awarded a contract worth more than $30 million to design and supply a boiler, combustion system,…
Braskem-Idesa, the joint venture (JV) between the Brazilian Braskem and Mexican Group Idesa has taken another important step for the development of its Ethylene XXI project in Mexico. The JV has chosen Technip (Paris; www.technip.com) as technology provider for the…
Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. (Sener; Madrid, Spain;www.sener.es) has clinched several contracts for the design and supply of solar fields in Spain: the Aste 1A and Aste 1B, Termosolar Soluz Guzmán, Consol-Orellana and La Africana plants. With these five new…