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Topsoe lands contract for two ammonia plants in India

TechnipFMC has awarded Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) a contract for license and basic engineering for two gas-based ammonia plants for Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Ltd. (HURL). The two fertilizer complexes in Sindri and Barauni will each comprise 2,200…

Sener and Acciona start salt-melting process at CCSP Kathu Solar Park

The engineering and technology group Sener S.A. (Las Arenas, Spain; www.engineeringandconstruction.sener) and Acciona Industrial S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.acciona.com) have achieved another relevant milestone initiating the salt-melting process at the Kathu Solar Park Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant. The molten salt…

Hubei Sanning to use Honeywell hydrogen technology to produce plastics from coal

Honeywell says that Hubei Sanning Chemical Industry Co. will use Honeywell UOP’s (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) Polybed pressure-swing adsorption (PSA) technology to supply high-quality hydrogen at its monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant at Zhijiang in China’s Hubei Province. The Hubei Sanning…

Aveva partners with Virsec to strengthen defence against targeted cyberattacks

Aveva Plc (Cambridge, U.K.; www.aveva.com) has signed a partnership agreement with Virsec (San Jose, Calif.; www.virsec.com), whereby Aveva customers gain access to in-memory cyber protection for Industrial Control (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Virsec’s patented technology…

Pöyry awarded EPCM services assignment for biogas plant expansion in Finland

Gasum Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.gasum.com) has awarded Pöyry Oyj. (www.poyry.com) with the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services assignment for Topinoja biogas plant expansion project in Turku, Finland. The work will be carried out between May 2018 and June…

KBR awarded FEED, EPCM-option contract for Methanex’s potential Geismar 3 Methanol Project

KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a reimbursable engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Methanex Corp. for providing front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a 5,000 metric ton per day world-scale methanol plant to be located adjacent…

Jizzakh Petroleum to build new refinery in Uzbekistan

Honeywell announced today that Jizzakh Petroleum JV LLC will use Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) technologies to build a new petroleum refinery capable of processing 5 million ton/yr of crude oil to produce clean-burning gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.…

A large rotary lobe pump for sensitive products

This company is expanding its Novalobe pump range with the large-volume Novalobe 60 (photo), which has a chamber volume of 2.1 L per revolution. The rotary-lobe pump is specifically designed for pumping and dosing highly viscous media with large particles…

A new membrane for natural gas processing

Sepuran NG (photo) is a hollow-fiber membrane based on a high-performance plastic that can withstand extreme pressures and temperatures. This enables selective separation of sour gases from natural gas, with a high tolerance of higher hydrocarbons contained in the natural…

Graphite rupture discs provide long temperature resistance

The GRX graphite rupture disc (photo) has been developed for processes with corrosive media, low pressure and temperatures between –180 and 1,500°C. The GRX is available with a synthetic resin coating (for process temperatures up to 200°C), as well as…