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Scaleup is set for an air-separation membrane
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…
A less-expensive way to make platinum catalysts
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…
Extracting drinking water from humidity
An energy-autonomous process for capturing air humidity for drinking water has been developed by scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB; Stuttgart; www.fraunhofer.de) and Logos-Innovationen GmbH (Bodnegg, both Germany; www.logos-innovationen.com). The concept is suitable for supplying…
Teijin transfers 50% ownership in NatureWorks back to Cargill
Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo; www.teijin.co.jp) announced today that it had transferred its 50% ownership in NatureWorks LLC back to Cargill and terminated the joint-venture (JV) contract with Cargill regarding NatureWorks as of June 30. NatureWorks, established in 1997 and operated as…
This photocatalyst works with visible light
A photocatalyst that uses visible light to deodorize and disinfect air has been developed by Hiroshi Taoda at the Materials Research Institute for Sustainable Development, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Chubu, Nagoya, (AIST; Chubu, Nagoya, Japan; www.aist.go.jp).…
Technip wins contract for LNG plant in China
Ningxia Hanas Natural Gas Company Ltd has awarded Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) a lump sum contract for of a mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant to be built in Yinchuan, China. The contract covers the engineering, supply of main equipment,…
Lanxess postpones Singapore production until 2014
Due to the continuing global economic crisis, specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is postponing the construction of its new butyl rubber facility in Singapore. Production is now scheduled to start in 2014. Lanxess will use the time…
Siemens and TNO: strategic cooperation in CO2 capture
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO; Delft, Netherlands; www.tno.nl) , have signed an exclusive cooperation agreement aimed at the further advancement of amino-acid salt-based carbon capture technology. Carbon capture technologies in the…
GEA to supply heat exchangers for solar thermal power generation
GEA Ibérica, a Spanish subsidiary of GEA Group Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received an order to design, manufacture and supply seven surface condensers for new solar thermal power plants in Spain with an aggregate capacity of 350 MW. Worth about…
Strategic partnership to pioneer CO2 capture
Alstom (Paris, France; www.alstom.com) has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with StatoilHydro on behalf of the partners of the European CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) for a chilled ammonia (carbonate) CO2 capture plant at TCM in Norway.…