Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.; www.siemens.com) has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), the 730-MW (gross) advanced clean-coal generating plant being developed near Taylorville, Ill., the company announced today. The Taylorville Energy…
GF Piping Systems (www.piping.georgfischer.com), a Corporate Group of Georg Fischer AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), inaugurated on 4 November its new production facility in Ratnagiri, India. The corporation has invested several million Swiss francs in constructing this completely new factory in the…
Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com) has been awarded two contracts worth a total of over €100 million in India and Saudi Arabia. Growing concern over climate change, combined with ever stricter environmental regulations and compliance deadlines, have increased international demand for air…
Peruvian Oil Co. Petroperú (Petroleos del Perú S.A.; www.petroperu.com.pe) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison , France; www.axens.net) have signed a first contract for the modernization of Talara, Petroperú’s largest refinery. The main objectives are the expansion of the refinery and the implementation…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is strengthening its presence in India by opening a technical center in Mumbai. The facility will serve as a regional competence center for developments and applications in the construction, coatings, plastics and textile coatings industry,…
China owns the world’s third largest coal reserves, and naturally looks into ways of valuing them in order to reduce its growing dependency on foreign energy sources and feedstock. Several technologies based on coal gasification allow the transformation of coal…
Univation Technologies LLC (Houston; www.univation.com) announced that Yulin Energy and Chemical Ltd. of Yanchang Petroleum Group Co. (Yulin) has selected Univation’s Unipol PE Process for a 300,000 metric ton (m.t.) per year polyethylene (PE) plant. The facility will be located…
Process Systems Enterprise Ltd. (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com) is to make new advanced thermodynamic modeling tools for prediction of liquid and gas thermodynamic properties available through its gPROMS process-modeling environment. The technology makes it possible to considerably speed up the…
BASF announces its intention to cease activities in Feluy, Belgium October 22, 2009 — BASF Antwerpen N.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; http://www.basf.com) has announced its intention to close its 115,000-ton/yr maleic anhydride (MA) production facility…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has commercialized a new cooling tower that offers increased cooling capacity with significantly lower emissions to air when cooling solutions in metallurgical processes. The new tower can be used in a wide range of process…