Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com) has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Summit Texas Clean Energy LLC to provide coal gasification and power block technology for the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP). The new polygeneration IGCC…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com), is planning to design, install, and operate a pilot plant for treating a slipstream (1 MW equivalent) at the Tampa Electric Big Bend Station to demonstrate Postcap technology for post-combustion CO2 gas capture. The primary…
Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Energy, Inc., (B&W NE; Lynchburg, Va.) and Bechtel Power Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.: www.bechtel.com)have entered into a formal alliance to design, license and deploy the world’s first commercially viable Generation III++ small modular nuclear power plant.…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has agreed to acquire the worldwide assets of Swedish-based company Lindgens Metal Decorating Coatings and Inks, including its majority stake in the Server Boya joint venture in Turkey. Financial details were not disclosed. Consultations with employee…
Catalytic Distillation Technologies (CDTech; Pasedena, Tex.; www.cdtech.com) has been awarded a contract by OAO UNPZ Ufa Refinery for the license and basic engineering of a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) gasoline hydrodesulfurization unit in the Russian Federation. The FCC unit is designed…
Bayer Technology Services GmbH (BTS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayertechnology.com) and the Excellence Cluster for the Engineering of Advanced Materials — Hierarchical Structure Formation for Functional Devices (EAM) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (www.eam.uni-erlangen.de) have signed a cooperation agreement. The focus is…
Applied Analytics, Inc. (AAI; Concord, Mass.; www.a-a-inc.com) and Aber Ahmed Equipment Est. (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) have established Applied Analytics Middle East FZE. This new subsidiary expands and restructures AAI operations in the Gulf region, serving both as an administrative…
Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) is investing approximately EUR 60 million in the production of lithium iron phosphate (LFP), a high performance energy storage material used in batteries for electric vehicle drives and other applications. On the new site of…
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is reorganizing its carbon black activities. On July 1, Evonik Carbon Black GmbH was founded as a legally independent management company under the umbrella of Evonik Industries. Jack Clem is CEO and Rainer Wobbe will…
Fuel Tech, Inc. (Warrenville, Ill.; www.ftek.com) has received a number of air-pollution-control (APC) orders valued at $6.4 million. The largest of these orders, placed by a major U.S. power producer, for reducing oxides of nitrogen (NOx) reduction projects on three coal-fired…