GEA Power Cooling Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.; www.geaict.com), a subsidiary of GEA Group (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com), received an order to supply, design and erect a cooling tower for the combined cycle power plant “West County” in Palm Beach County, Fla. The…
Along with other industrial companies, Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) is participating in the Desertec initiative to provide sustainable power to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. A corresponding Memorandum of Understanding was signed today in Munich. Environmentally friendly…
The Chinese central government has approved the Joint Feasibility Study Report submitted by BASF and SINOPEC for the expansion of their joint venture (JV), BASF-YPC Co., Ltd. (BYC), in Nanjing, China, as of July 1, 2009. BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany;…
Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has received two orders for Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers from Petrobras in Brazil. The total value is about SEK 55 million and was booked late June 2009. The delivery is scheduled for 2011. …
Rhodia (Paris; www.rhodia.com) today announces its first business development investment in biogas technology, by acquiring Econcern Group’s participation in six pilot biogas production projects located in China and Vietnam. Anticipating the growth of business opportunities in the biogas sector, Rhodia…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has officially launched a new multilateral collaboration to develop a groundbreaking, innovative technology for the production of synthetic rubber. The new technology will use fewer resources and is therefore considerably more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly than…
Borouge (Abu Dhabi; www.borouge.com), a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has awarded a contract worth $1.075 billion to The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com), a world leading gases and engineering company, to build another 1.5 million tonnes…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) will supply ammonia synthesis technology for the world’s largest ammonia plant. The plant will produce more than 3,500 tonnes of ammonia per day. Topsøe has signed a contract for the supply of ammonia synthesis…
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI, Palo Alto, Calif.; www.epri.com) has signed an agreement with Air Products (Allentown, Penn.; www.airproducts.com) to support the company’s development of a ceramic ion transport membrane (ITM) for air separation. The membrane is being tested…
The cost of producing platinum catalysts could be reduced by up to 90% by a process being developed jointly by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL, Livermore, Calif.; www.llnl.gov) and Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.; www.stanford.edu). The process involves the deposition of…