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Connect serial interfaces to other networks in the field

The ultracompact module TBEN-S-2COM connects devices with an RS232 or RS485 interface directly in the field to controllers with the Profinet, Ethernet/IP or Modbus TCP protocols. This eliminates the need to run long wiring routes to the control cabinet. The…

Safety-system setup made faster and less complex

This company and exida (Sellersville, Pa.; www.exida.com) have jointly released the DeltaV safety instrumented system (SIS) configurator, an exida exSILentia tool that automatically generates DeltaV SIS configurations. By pairing built-in DeltaV functionality with comprehensive software tools for functional safety, users…

These high-pressure gages meet a new standard

This company has launched a new generation of high-pressure gages (photo), which are said to be the first instruments of their kind that have been constructed and qualified in accordance with the new DIN 16001 high-pressure standard. The marking in…

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Cost Engineering: Integrating Technology and Economics

The Process Synthesis Model presented here is a methodology that integrates technology and economics, thereby improving process design and reducing costs Broadly, the chemical process industries (CPI) are comprised of companies in the chemical, petroleum refining, pharmaceutical, household and personal-care…

Total completes upgrade of Its largest refining & petrochemicals platform in Europe

Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) has inaugurated the new units at its Antwerp, Belgium integrated petroleum-refining and petrochemicals platform, which have progressively started up in the last few months. This event marks the completion of the upgrade program launched in…

KBR awarded ammonia plant revamp in India

KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded an ammonia plant revamp contract by Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd (RCF). Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a technology license and basic engineering design for the RCF ammonia plant…

Sadara and Gulf Interchem to build chemical recycling plant at PlasChem Park

Sadara Chemical Co. (Jubail, Saudi Arabia; www.sadara.com) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Gulf Interchem, a Bahrain-based technology company focused on innovating in the field of low-value chemical byproduct recycling, for a by-products upgrade project based in PlasChem Park,…

Neste Jacobs to be renamed Neste Engineering Solutions

In September 2017, it was announced that Neste Corp. (Espoo, Finland; www.neste.com) had acquired Jacobs Engineering's 40% shareholding in Neste Jacobs Oy. After this transaction, Neste Jacobs Oy is now 100% owned by Neste Corporation. As the result of the…

thyssenkrupp to build two major polymer plants for SASA in Turkey

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions’ (Essen Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer has signed a contract to build two new world-scale polymer plants for SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş in Adana, Turkey. One plant is planned to produce 1,050 metric tons per day (380,000…

BASF opens world-scale chemical catalysts manufacturing plant in China

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com ) today celebrated the official opening of its new, world-scale chemical catalysts manufacturing plant in Caojing, Shanghai, China. The new plant is BASF’s first chemical catalysts manufacturing facility in the Asia Pacific region. The BASF…