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Fast digestion makes better use of municipal sludge
The use of residual sludge from municipal sewage plants as fertilizer in agriculture is controversial (due to heavy metals and other pollutants), and slurry can no longer be disposed of in landfills in many countries. A less expensive alternative to…
KBR awarded contract for refinery in Angola
0 0 0 KBR (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Sonangol, E.P. to provide license and engineering services for grassroots fluid-catalytic-cracking (FCC) and hydroprocessing technologies for the Sonaref Refinery to be located in Lobito, Angola. KBR will…
IMD acquires a new source for Omega-3 FAs
0 0 0 InterMed Discovery GmbH (IMD; Dortmund, Germany; www.intermed-discovery.com), has acquired of unique microbial Omega-3 fatty acid (FA) production strains and related know-how from the University of Saarland. This innovative microbial source has the potential to produce Omega-3 more…
Lummus Technology wins cracker-heater contract
Lummus Technology, a CB&I company (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $40 million by CTCI Corp. (Taipei; www.ctci.com.tw) for the material supply of eight cracking heaters. The heaters, with a capacity of 720,000 metric…
GEA wins major pharmaceutical order from China
0 0 0 GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; ) has won a milestone order from the Zheiiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Taizhou Zheiiang, China) for the supply of pharmaceutical freeze dryers with automatic load and unload systems (ALUS). The order…
Univation to build catalyst manufacturing facility in China
Univation Technologies, LLC (Houston, Tex.; www.univation.com) has begun construction of a new polyethylene (PE) catalyst-manufacturing facility in China with a scheduled 2011 startup. The facility will be located in Zhangjiagang within the Jiangsu province of the People’s Republic of China. …
Remmers’ paint to coat sea-link bridge
Remmers Baustofftechnik GmbH (Löningen, Germany; www.remmers.de) was awarded the contract to supply coatings for the Bandra Worli Sea Link Bridge in India. It is estimated that 120,000 L of Remmers’ Funcosil Betonacryl will be required to cover the 5.6-km long…
Series production of organic nanoparticles
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has developed a polymer additive for plastics and rubber that is now available for industrial application. These microgels, which consist of nanoscale organic particles, can be used to improve the material properties of elastomer and…
Ansys software improves cement making
Ansys, Inc. (Southpointe, Pa.; www.ansys.com) today announced that its software is helping aixprocess, a German engineering consultancy, to explore process improvements that will make cement manufacturing more profitable and more environmentally responsible. The business has been investigating replacing traditional fossil…
Technip to ‘Connect’ German refineries
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Shell for the first phase of its “Connect” project in Germany. By connecting two existing refineries in Godorf and Wesseling Shell will create the largest…