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Honeywell Green Diesel to be produced from biofeedstocks in U.S. facility
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that it has signed an agreement to license technology to Emerald Biofuels LLC to produce Honeywell Green Diesel at a facility in Louisiana. Emerald is expected to use UOP’s Eni…
KBR selected to construct shale-gas processing facility
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a general works contract for the construction of a 200-million standard cubic feet per day, sweet natural-gas processing plant near Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada. KBR’s Canadian subsidiary, KBR Wabi, will execute all mechanical,…
Fluor wins copper mill optimization work in British Columbia
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a contract from Teck (Vancouver, Canada; www.teck.com) to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the Highland Valley Copper Mill Optimization project in British Columbia, Canada. Fluor booked $397 million…
Outotec acquires Demil Manutenção Industrial in Brazil
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed to acquire all shares in Demil Manutenção Industrial Ltda. (Guarapari, Espírito Santo, Brazil) from Marcos Del Pupo and his children. Demil provides industrial maintenance services for iron-ore pelletizing plants and is located in.…
Solazyme and Dow to accelerate commercialization of bio-based dielectric insulating fluids
Solazyme, Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.; www.solazyme.com) and The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) have entered into a contingent offtake agreement in which Dow has agreed to purchase from Solazyme all of its requirements of non-vegetable microbe-based oils for…
B&W to proceed with waste-to-energy plant in Florida
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has received full notice to proceed (FNTP) for the engineering, design, procurement and construction of a waste-to-energy power…
Uhde supplies chlor-alkali electrolysis technology to AkzoNobel
At the Frankfurt-Höchst, (Germany) industrial estate, AkzoNobel is converting an amalgam electrolysis plant to the modern membrane process and has commissioned ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) to design and supply the energy-saving Uhde membrane cells. This extensive conversion project…
Base-catalyzed nucleophyllic additions with a modified zeolite
A new solid-state basic catalyst for forming carbon-carbon bonds has been developed by Masaru Ogura, an associate professor, and his research group at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo (www.u-tokyo.ac.jp). The catalyst has been shown to accelerate the…
Scaleup for a new delignification process
This month, Borregaard Industries Ltd. (Sarpsborg, Norway; www.borregaard.com) will start up an integrated, pilot-demonstration plant to further develop a new pretreatment process for converting biomass into lignin and fermentable sugars. Located at the company’s R&D Center in Sarpsborg, the pilot…
New polysilicon granule-drying system boosts processing yields and purity
A novel cold-dry process makes possible the utilization of fine form-factor silicon, such as granules and sand-like fines, in the production of high-purity polysilicon for solar photovoltaic cells and semiconductors, where such fine-grained material would normally have to be sent…