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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…
Iron-based catalyst shows promise for alkene hydrosilylations
A catalyst in which iron atoms are complexed with the ligand pyridine diimine (PDI) has shown promise as a replacement for high-cost platinum-based catalysts for industrial olefin-hydrosilylation reactions. Developed by the research group of Paul Chirik at Princeton University (www.…
Foster Wheeler awarded PMC contract for aromatics complex in Abu Dhabi
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by Abu Dhabi National Chemicals Company (ChemaWEyaat) for the provision of project management consultancy (PMC) services for an…
Outotec provides flotation technology for Kennecott Utah Copper concentrator
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Kennecott Utah Copper to supply 30 TankCell e300 flotation cells, with an option for an additional ten cells for retrofit of the company's Copperton Concentrator. The contract was booked in Outotec's…
BASF acquires Novolyte Technologies
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com), Arsenal Capital Partners (New York, N.Y.; www.arsenalcapital.com) and Foosung Co. (www.foosung.com) today announced BASF’s acquisition of Novolyte Technologies (Cleveland, Ohio). Novolyte is a manufacturer of electrolyte formulations for lithium-ion batteries, as well as specialty chemicals…
UOP to provide technology for propylene production in China
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected to provide key technology to produce propylene in China. Zhangjiagang Yangzi River Petrochemical Co. (Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province, China) will use UOP’s C3 Oleflex process technology to convert…
UOP technology selected for petrochemical production in China
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says that its UOP C3 and C4 Oleflex" processes have been selected by Shandong Chambroad Petrochemicals Co. (Binzhou City, Shandong Province, China) to produce key petrochemicals. The plant will be the…
Chemrec and TCC cooperation on advanced biofuel plants
Chemrec AB (Stockholn, Sweden; www.chemrec.se) has signed a cooperation agreement with China Tianchen Engineering Corp. (TCC; Tianjin; www.china-tcc.com), to provide an integrated offering of Chemrec plants on a global lump-sum turn-key basis and co-market the Chemrec black liquor gasification technology…
B&W: $1.3-billion contract for managing Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC — URS Energy & Construction, Inc. (Boise, Idaho), and B&W Technical Services Group, Inc. (B&W TSG; Lynchburg, Va), and major subcontractor, AREVA Federal Services LLC…
Air Products technology for LNG project in Australia
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) is again increasing its presence in Australia’s rapidly growing LNG (liquefied natural gas) production market. Air Products has signed an agreement with JKC Joint Venture (JV) and INPEX Operations Australia Pty Ltd, for the…