ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-537) plans to spend more than $100 million on a commercial demonstration of its Controlled Freeze Zone (CFZ) technology for removing carbon dioxide from natural gas. The plant, to be located at the company’s Shute Creek…
Honeywell Specialty Materials (Morristown, N.J.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7373-546) has launched PowerShield PV325, a material that protects photovoltaic (PV) modules — including the critical components that convert sunlight into electricity — in all types of environments. The material is ultraviolet, moisture and weather…
Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com), and EuroChem (Moscow), have signed two contracts with a total value of 92.7 million euros for the design and supply of a melamine plant. The melamine unit, which will be the first of its kind…
Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com) has completed its roll-out of the 2nd generation gPROMS process-modeling platform with the release of gPROMS v3.1. gPROMS is widely used by large process industry companies in the oil & gas, chemicals, pharmaceutical…
To meet the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) today announced that it will expand production of its Solamet thick-film metallization pastes at its Electronic Materials DuPont Dongguan Ltd. (EMDD) facility in China.…
Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has received an order for the Packinox plate heat exchanger from a petrochemical company in China. The order value is about SEK 60 million, and delivery is scheduled for 2009. “During the second quarter this…
S-Oil Corp. (Seoul, Korea; www.s-oil.com/eng) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) ParamaX Technology Suite for the No.2 Aromatics complex at the Onsan refinery in South Korea. The new 1,180,000-m.t./yr plant will add capacities of 900,000 m.t./yr paraxylene and 280,000 m.t./yr…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France www.axens.net) has been awarded a design package for the new, 400,000 bbl/d, world class, full-conversion refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The refining and petrochemical complex is scheduled to start-up in 2012. Among the units that are being…
Lurgi Zimmer GmbH, a company of Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.de), has been awarded a contract to supply its state-of-the-art polyamide 6 (PA6) technology for Tianjin Haijing Polymerization Co., Ltd., P.R. China. Polyamide is a widely used polymer for sophisticated…
Ekato Fluid Misch- ind Dispergiertechnik GmbH (Lörrach, Germany; www.fluidmix.de), a company of the Ekato Group (Schopfheim, Germany; www.ekato.de), has recently received an order for over 300 mixers from AKW Apparate + Verfahren GmbH (Hirschau, Germany). Wth a volume of nearly 1…