Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that it has increased the supply capacity of its Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline supply network by approximately 40 million standard cubic feet per day. The additional product supply results from Air Products’ hydrogen…
New digital capabilities have enabled a revolution in the way process equipment maintenance can be approached, but the true impact of these newfound insights depends on organizational collaboration The chemical process industries (CPI) are facing a new economic landscape with…
Praj Industries Ltd. (Pune, India; www.praj.net) has appointed Mr. Shishir Joshipura as the CEO and Managing Director, effective from 2nd April, 2018. Joshipura is a mechanical engineer from BITS Pilani and an Advanced Management Graduate from Harvard Business School. Prior…
Most of us involved in the chemical process industries (CPI) are familiar with — to varying degrees — the industrial internet of things (IIoT). Also known as Industry 4.0 and more recently as industrial digitalization, the movement toward connecting more…
A group of Japanese researchers have developed a photocatalytic panel reactor with large area (1 m2) that splits water into H2 and O2 using only natural sunlight. The NEDO (www.nedo.go.jp)-supported project — which includes partners Japan Technological Research Association of…
Polysiloxanes are the main component of important industrial materials, such silicones and organosilicones. In recent years, demand has grown for higher-performance and higher-functionality of organosilicon materials, which require techniques that precisely control the structure of these materials. Although there are…
Polymer coatings are often used to mask the taste of pharmaceuticals, as well as to serve as moisture barriers to granules or tablets. However, the application of polymer solutions requires considerable time and energy for drying after the coating has…
In a project of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO; Kawasaki, Japan; www.nedo.go.jp), a collaboration of six industrial, government and academic partners has developed a catalyst for reducing oxides of nitrogen (NOx) from automobile exhaust. Because the…
Using a workhorse technology known as the gas-subcooled process (GSP), most natural gas plants recover between 85 and 90% of ethane in raw natural gas streams. Honeywell UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) has developed a modular retrofit unit designed to…
Active surfactants are those that are responsive to an external stimulus, such as temperature, light, electric or magnetic fields or chemical agents. Scientists from the Institute for Basic Science (Daejeon, South Korea; www.ibs.re.kr) have developed surfactants based on functionalized nanoparticle…