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UOP technology selected for petrochemical production in China
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that its UOP Oleflex process technology has been selected by China’s Longgang Chemical Co. (Qingdao Province, China) to produce key ingredients for fuels and synthetic rubber. The C4 Oleflex…
Technip awarded contracts for ethylene plant expansion in Kentucky
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded engineering and procurement contracts by Westlake Chemical Corp. for the expansion and modernization of the ethylene cracking furnaces and the recovery section of Westlake’s ethylene plant in Calvert City, Kentucky. The ethylene production capacity…
Bechtel completes construction of chemical weapons demilitarization facility
Bechtel (Houston; www.bechtel.com) announced today the Bechtel Pueblo Team (BPT) has completed construction of the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP). The facility will eventually destroy 2,611 tons of mustard agent-filled munitions currently being stored at the U.S. Army Pueblo…
Lanxess to build new pigment plant in China
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is expanding its global production network for inorganic pigments in China. A new high-tech facility for premium iron-oxide red pigments is being constructed at the Ningbo Chemical Park on the Chinese East Coast. The plant,…
Air Products’ Phase One Carbon Capture Project onstream in Texas
Described by the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) as a milestone in DOE’s Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) program, Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced today that Phase One of its two-stage carbon-capture project in…
Bechtel acquires Chevron’s WWT Process
Bechtel (Houston; www.bechtel.com) has purchased Chevron’s Waste Water Treatment (WWT) Process, a technology that improves the efficiency of petroleum refineries. The WWT Process is a proprietary, two-stage sour-water-stripping process that separates ammonia and hydrogen sulfide streams from sour waters generated…
Messer produces pure CO2 from waste gas in China
The largest privately managed industrial gas specialist, Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.de) and Sichuan Meifeng, a Chinese chemicals company, have signed a joint-venture (JV) agreement to found Sichuan Meifeng Messer Gas Products. The JV will invest some €7.24…
Lanxess expands dichlorobenzene capacity at Leverkusen facility
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has increased its dichlorobenzene capacity by more than 15%. It has done so by installing an additional crystallizer at the Leverkusen site, thereby enabling it to produce more high-purity p-dichlorobenzene for the global market. Some…
Technip awarded PTA-contract contract by JBF Petrochemicals
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by JBF Petrochemicals, a wholly–owned subsidiary of JBF Industries Ltd, a for a 1.25-million ton/yr, latest-generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) unit, to be located in the Special Economic Zone in Mangalore, India. PTA is…
Linde and Forest BtL sign licensing agreement for Carbo-V technology
Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH, a subsidiary of The Linde Group (Munich, Germamy; www.linde.com) has signed an agreement with the Finnish Forest BtL Oy for the licensing of the biomass gasification technology Carbo-V, which will be implemented in a new Biomass–to-Liquid…