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New coke plant for POSCO in South Korea

POSCO Group (Seoul, South Korea), the worlds’s fourth biggest steel producer, has commissioned Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) to provide extensive services for the construction of four new coke-oven batteries to expand its coke production by more than 2.3 million…

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Chementator: Commercialization nears for producing cartenoids from engineered yeasts

In late 2009, Microbia PE, Inc. (Lexington, Mass.; www.microbia-pe.com) will begin commercialization of its initial carotenoid products. Microbia plans to produce β-carotene, astaxanthin, zeaxanthin, cathaxanthin and lutein — all five carotenoid products that currently have significant commercial value. These carotenoids…

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Economic Indicators: Business News

Plant Watch Linde and Samsung Engineering to build ethylene plant in India January 7, 2009 — The Linde Group (Munich, Germany) and its consortium partner Samsung Engineering Co. have been awarded the contract to build a turnkey ethylene plant in…

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February Chementator Briefs

A new bioplastic Up to now, the main plastic produced from renewable resources has been polylactic acid (PLA), which is derived from corn starch. However, because PLA does not have the same level of performance as petroleum-derived plastics, PLA has…

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February Chementator

Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information Construction to begin on a large solar plant in Spain Thanks to a €171-million financing deal, construction can begin on what is…

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Chementator: Construction to begin on a large solar plant in Spain

Thanks to a €171-million financing deal, construction can begin on what is claimed to be the world’s first utility-grade solar power plant with central tower and salt receiver technology. When the so-called Gemasolar plant — located in Fuentes de Andalucia,…

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Chementator: A new syngas catalyst passes pilot tests…

Mitsunori Shimura and colleagues at the R&D Center of Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda.co.jp) have developed a new catalyst for producing a synthesis gas (syngas; hydrogen and carbon monoxide) from steam reforming of methane. The catalyst consists of precious metals…

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Chementator: A pilot-step closer to second-generation biofuels

Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com) is building a pilot plant to demonstrate the viability of its three-stage bioliq process for producing liquid fuels from biomass. The pilot plant — an entrained-flow gasifier for the production of synthesis gas — will…

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Chementator: Progress on a promising separation technology

For separating two components with similar volatilities, extractive distillation is typically used, whereby a high-boiling, non-volatile solvent is added to "break the azeotrope" — a process that is both energy intensive and often involves the use of hazardous solvents. In…

Chementator: Sonicating slurries speeds soil remediation

Ultrasound has been applied, with limited success, for the remediation of contaminated soil. Up to now, the approach has been to first extract the contaminant from the soil into a liquid, which is then passed through a sono-reactor where the…